by admin | Jan 27, 2021 | Bylines
Originally published in Aeon Magazine, April 9, 2014 The unforgiven When soldiers kill in war, the secret shame and guilt they bring back home can destroy them November 2004, against a shattered wall in south Fallujah in Iraq, with video rolling, I conduct a...
by admin | Jan 20, 2019 | Bylines
Originally published in Vice Magazine, January 28, 2013 All photos by Nina Berman except archival image William Wold. As Yahoo! News’s first war correspondent, between 2005 and 2006 Kevin Sites gained notoriety for covering every major conflict across the globe in one...
by admin | Oct 21, 2018 | Bylines
Originally published in USA Today, February 24, 2014 Blaming suspect’s actions in sniper’s death on disorder unfairly stigmatizes others. Eddie Ray Routh, an Iraq War veteran who has been charged in the killings of former Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle and...
by admin | Mar 21, 2018 | Bylines
Originally published in Small Wars Journal, February 2018 Kevin Sites In war, there is always time for champagne. In victory one deserves it, in defeat one needs it. — Napoleon Bonaparte From wine swilling Greek hoplites to tweaked out NAZI’s on speed, drugs and...
by admin | Nov 9, 2015 | Bylines
Originally published in Alert Diver magazine, August 2015. Police divers descend to new depths for justice. Sgt. David Mascarenas was stewing in his own sweat inside a Whites hazmat drysuit. It was a sunny day in Southern California in June 2013, but it wasn’t...
by admin | Jan 26, 2015 | Bylines
Originally published in Vice Magazine, November 6, 2014 “Do you see how I shoot him? You brother of a bitch. This is not fair. I don’t have a sniper rifle. It’s not fair.” Captain Abdul Khadir hurled epithets and 7.62 rounds at a group of...