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A ration party of the Royal Irish Rifles in a communication trench during the Battle of the Somme.

Wars don’t end the way you think they do

January 16, 2014Conflict & Justice

When I first set out on this project in 2008, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were still raging. I wanted to know what it would take for those wars to end. It was almost a technical question: what conditions had to be in play for the shooting to stop? I suppose I was looking for a how-to manual….

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