Bruce Rolston

“It is well that war is so terrible—or we should grow too fond of it.” — Robert E. Lee, after his victory at Fredericksburg, 1862. It seems that nearly the first question all futurists must ask, when gazing into their science-fiction crystal balls, is what the nature of warfare will be in the years to…

Out of a black sky, one bomb. Four dead. A national tragedy. A nation in mourning. Four years ago this month I was a low-level participant (as an army public affairs officer) in the Toronto funeral for Corporal Ainsworth Dyer, killed along with three comrades by a reckless American F-16 pilot in Afghanistan. I’d actually run into…