Essays & Articles
David Chrisinger's essays and articles published in various print publications as well as websites.
Fighting to Go Home: Operation Desert Storm, 30 Years Later
“It almost seems like a very bad dream having been here. Of course there have been some good times, but the bad far outweighs the good."
The New Cold War That’s Emerging in the Arctic
“We’ve learned that absolute security for the Russians means absolute insecurity for everyone else. That should be totally unacceptable.”
A Secret Diary Chronicled the ‘Satanic World’ That Was Dachau
For two years, a prisoner in the German concentration camp kept a journal that would later be used to convict those who had persecuted him and killed his fellow pri...
Ernie Pyle—The Original War Horse
I’m leaving for one reason only—because I have just got to stop. 'I’ve had it,’ as they say in the Army. I have had all I can take for a while. I’ve been ...
The Surge Nobody’s Talking About: The U.S. War in Somalia
“They either don’t know who they are killing,” says Abdullahi Hassan, Amnesty International’s Somalia researcher, or AFRICOM is “afraid of admitting respo...