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Foreign Affairs The Death of Glory War is being transformed by high technology into something lusterless and horrible. TakiMag (Sibsky2016/Shutterstock) It is almost impossible to imagine, but very, very soon, soldiers engaged in battle will be as outmoded as high button shoes, or gentlemen standing up when shaking hands with a lady. In fact there will be no more ground, air, or sea fighting by humans, no more intimate observations by war correspondents enlarging their own roles, no more pics of masculine swagger after a bloody victory. And no, it is not that male tough guys have turned sensitive and no longer…Open
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His camera captured subjects as diverse as New York City during the Summer of Love in 1967, Siberia under Soviet rule and the Adirondacks in upstate New York.