Welcome to Rewind & Reconnoiter. Each week, we’ll ask one of our authors to look back at an article they’ve written for War on the Rocks in light of a current news event. Did their argument hold up?

Framingham resident Alec Karys discovered a diary his father kept as a soldier during the Greco-Turkish War, decades after his father's death. The diary revealed a poetic and sentimental side of Karys ...