Benjamin Reed

About the author

Benjamin Reed is a U.S. Army veteran who served in Iraq and later worked as a private security contractor in Afghanistan and Europe. In 2022, he deployed independently to Ukraine, where he served in multiple roles, including drone operator and infantryman. He is the author of War Tourist, a forthcoming memoir represented by Writers House.

Gaza’s War of Truth and Tragedy

Between Hamas’s butchery, Israel’s grinding war, and a fog of propaganda that makes truth provisional, Gaza is where civilians are crushed while Washington looks away.

What Marjorie Taylor Greene Gets Wrong About Ukraine

I didn’t fight in Ukraine because it was easy—I fought because it was right, and watching Marjorie Taylor Greene parrot Kremlin lies from the safety of her seat in Congress makes me wonder if she even knows the difference.