We believe that by educating the public by relating our personal experiences, we can reveal the hard, ugly truth about war.
Americans have lost sight of a basic truth: war is not launched by technology, whether by spears or inter-continental missiles, but by human beings who make a decision to fight or not.
Previously secret documents show British officials covered up evidence about the assassination of a colonial governor in East Asia after World War II, fearing the truth might spark a war.
As if it wasn't hard enough already to get the truth out about the war effort and generate public support for a truly noble effort, the Army is making it even harder.
One lesson is key: It is possible to win all the battles and still lose the war, a basic truth in any counterinsurgency campaign.
And there really was a truth, and that's that war poses as combat.
The truth of the matter is that the war and its aftermath have changed Eritrea, and it cannot be the same politically passive place again.
We only need to look at the War on Drugs to see the truth of that statement.
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The war in Iraq illustrated the simple truth that national alliances shift and alter with time and events.
The BBC's James Copnall, recently in Bentiu, says that while the conflict has not spread beyond a limited geographical area, talk of a slide towards war is not far from the truth.
"For me the war is still present - it's present in all the families that do not know the truth about what has happened, " says Father Cortina, who spent much of the war as a parish priest in one of the most conflict-ridden areas of the country.
He told us the unpleasant truth about the problematic nature of the Western way of war at the outset of the 21st century.
He was brought up by a mother who passed herself off as his elder sister, and he only learned the truth from her on the day he was mobilised for war-time service in 1917.
The truth may be more prosaic: since the end of the Vietnam War, Southeast Asia has not loomed large on U.S. radar screens.
And yet this truth must coexist with another -- that no matter how justified, war promises human tragedy.
The truth of the matter is that John Kerry is woefully ill-equipped to wage this war.
In truth I had little interest, but I needed a back up to start the inevitable bidding war for my services, so I agreed to meet.
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Young journalist Amila Prabodha Gamage thinks that while journalists may need to consider national security - as the country is at war - that doctrine should not unduly interfere with the public's right to know the truth.
In truth, of course, the quarrel over the role of the inspectors is a quarrel about the case for war if everything else fails.
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