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Writer and researcher. Current: Crisis Team at Amnesty, Conv Defense NRF at Stimson. Formers: EOD, OIF/OEF x 3. Author of STAMPEDE, THE LONG WALK, etc.
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Just Do It

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By Brian Castner, Santiago Ramos, Vanessa R. Corcoran, Jonathan Malesic
| Commonweal Magazine Verified
How many of us reach for our phones as soon as we wake up? Bleary-eyed, groggy, we go straight to the messages and emails and tweets and videos with auto-generated captions that accumulated overnight. So begins our day of words. That this deluge of the world’s troubles—there’s the news cycle, but also pings from the boss and updates in the family group chat—comes in the form of text is emblematic of our frantic digital existence. Constant prattle. Our lives seem perpetually filtered through chatter.
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Is Wagner a Model for Other Mercenary Groups?

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By Brian Castner, Joaquin Matamis
| Stimson
In late 2017, President Touadera of the Central Africa Republic (CAR) met with Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, to ask for a military partner to arm its forces and fight an insurgency that threatened to destabilize the government. Russia responded by getting an exemption to the UN arms embargo to allow the import of new weapons and deploying almost 1400 troops to fifty locations across the country.
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Disappointment River: Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage

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By Michael O'Donnell, Brian Castner
| Barnes and Noble
A more famous explorer, Captain James Cook, had recently failed to find the Northwest Passage. But Mackenzie was young and ambitious. He set out with a party of seventeen from the Great Slave Lake in north-central Canada. From there he entered the newly discovered Deh Cho River, which was later renamed for him and is Canada’s longest at over 1,000 miles. The party navigated northwest for forty days. But instead of reaching the Pacific, the river emptied into the Arctic Ocean.
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