"History shows that attempts to create utopias through violence results in failure or produces societies more dystopian in nature."

Andy Owen is a writer and former intelligence officer who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. He writes on the ethics and philosophy of war, and regularly writes on geo-politics for several media publications in the US and UK including the Spectator, The Critic and Psyche.

He is the author of All Soldiers Run Away: Alano’s War — The Story of a British Deserter as well as Land of the Blind, a fictionalised memoir telling the story of the intelligence war in Afganistan.

"Owen's message carries a simple truth: Everyone has his or her breaking point." - Toronto Star

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