Beneath the high road to the district capital, large blue houses dot the hillside. Below them, you find one-story teal bungalows swallowed up by wild gardens and chickens. And below them, down the steep, uncut path through the jungle community, sit t...
Ian Stettner
Latest
Beneath the high road to the district capital, large blue houses dot the hillside. Below them, you find one-story teal bungalows swallowed up by wild gardens and chickens. And below them, down the steep, uncut path through the jungle community, sit t...
Ian Stettner
Ian Stettner
Ask any government statistician: The B-1 Bomber won us the Cold War. Not in the way you might think. No bomber ever dropped payloads over Russia, and the victory wasn’t overnight. But by its specific characteristics—anti-radar stealth, low-altitu...
Ian Stettner
Ian Stettner
Ask any government statistician: The B-1 Bomber won us the Cold War. Not in the way you might think. No bomber ever dropped payloads over Russia, and the victory wasn’t overnight. But by its specific characteristics—anti-radar stealth, low-altitu...
Ian Stettner
Ian Stettner
It would take Russian forces 60 hours to reach all three Baltic capitals. In less than three days, NATO members Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia are cut off at Kaliningrad, strangled for resupply, and cannibalized. In this war game, the combined forces...
Ian Stettner
Ian Stettner
It would take Russian forces 60 hours to reach all three Baltic capitals. In less than three days, NATO members Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia are cut off at Kaliningrad, strangled for resupply, and cannibalized. In this war game, the combined forces...
Ian Stettner
Ian Stettner
Jerome Powell presses a button, and halfway across the world, a government buckles. There are a lot of steps in between, but that’s the gist of it. In truth, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meets and sets a new target range on the fe...
Ian Stettner
Ian Stettner
Jerome Powell presses a button, and halfway across the world, a government buckles. There are a lot of steps in between, but that’s the gist of it. In truth, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meets and sets a new target range on the fe...
Ian Stettner
Ian Stettner
In 1993, the United States launched a series of raids on Mogadishu, Somalia so disastrous and publicly humiliating that they would redefine presidential decision-making for the next decade. Now, in the wake of America’s exit from Afghanistan, a...
Ian Stettner
Ian Stettner
In 1993, the United States launched a series of raids on Mogadishu, Somalia so disastrous and publicly humiliating that they would redefine presidential decision-making for the next decade. Now, in the wake of America’s exit from Afghanistan, a...
Ian Stettner
Ian Stettner
“It has been a long time since we last met, and I hope it will be a long time before we have to part.” In his address to the 2018 Boao Forum for Asia, Chinese President Xi Jinping quoted this line from an old Hainanese folk song. Less than a week...
Ian Stettner
Ian Stettner
“It has been a long time since we last met, and I hope it will be a long time before we have to part.” In his address to the 2018 Boao Forum for Asia, Chinese President Xi Jinping quoted this line from an old Hainanese folk song. Less than a week...
Ian Stettner
Ian Stettner
The year is 1701. A fire burns inside a colossal wooden Longhouse near modern-day Syracuse, New York. Around it delegates from five Iroquois Nations await a motion. Councils of Mohawk and Seneca gather on one side of the fire—as the dom...
Ian Stettner
Ian Stettner
The year is 1701. A fire burns inside a colossal wooden Longhouse near modern-day Syracuse, New York. Around it delegates from five Iroquois Nations await a motion. Councils of Mohawk and Seneca gather on one side of the fire—as the dom...
Ian Stettner
Ian Stettner
“The Hour will not occur until the Euphrates recedes, uncovering a mountain of gold over which people will fight. Ninety-nine out of every hundred will be killed. And every man among them will say: ‘I might be the one who survives.” – Boo...
Ian Stettner
Ian Stettner
“The Hour will not occur until the Euphrates recedes, uncovering a mountain of gold over which people will fight. Ninety-nine out of every hundred will be killed. And every man among them will say: ‘I might be the one who survives.” – Boo...
Ian Stettner
Ian Stettner
“Today, apart from vegetables, nothing is affordable in the market. Neither onions nor oil, let alone meat.” – Fane Tenin Berthe, local of Bamako. January 14th, Bamako Markets, Mali. 50 kilograms of Sugar costs 31,500 Central Afri...
Ian Stettner
Ian Stettner
“Today, apart from vegetables, nothing is affordable in the market. Neither onions nor oil, let alone meat.” – Fane Tenin Berthe, local of Bamako. January 14th, Bamako Markets, Mali. 50 kilograms of Sugar costs 31,500 Central Afri...
Ian Stettner
Ian Stettner