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Shit That Comes in Handy When You're Making Films on Planet Earth
Some of the items our VICE film crews have grown emotionally attached to.
The Nice Guy at the World's Largest Weapons Expo
It was the second day of the Special Operation Forces Exhibition in Amman, Jordan, and the temperature outside the convention center was around 80 degrees Fahrenheit, with a typical chance of rain of zero. Drones of various sizes hovered in the hot...
Making Friends at the London Counter Terror Expo
Meeting the grim, bad and paranoid men whose job it is to pump the world full of guns and fear.
What Were Middle Eastern Generals Buying at the World's Largest Weapons Expo?
VICE is no stranger to the Special Operations Force Exhibition, the annual meeting of military brass and weapons slingsmen in Jordan. Correspondent Shane Smith checked out SOFEX 2010 and saw firsthand all the insanity of the business of war. But that...
Returning to SOFEX, Post-Arab Spring
We've been to SOFEX before, but we went back to see if the people-killing business has changed in the wake of the Arab Spring.