A modest proposal: Fire all of the post 9/11 generals
We need to rebuild the ranks of the senior officer corps with members of a new generation who know where we went wrong — and do it now.
We need to rebuild the ranks of the senior officer corps with members of a new generation who know where we went wrong — and do it now.
This means even those who support them, including the US, are responsible for war crimes.
It’s clear now that the invasion of Iraq and the 20-year GWOT couldn’t have happened without the Fourth Estate’s complicity.
The seeds of destruction were already planted with prior decades of colonialism propping up corrupt, weak governments.
The first American charged under the Espionage Act after the attacks asks whether empire has permanently replaced the republic.
If anything, bureaucratic and physical distance increased between agencies and lines became blurrier.
While a country grieved, a surveillance state bloomed and began eating away at our basic Constitutional liberties.
But it was a trap laid by Osama bin Laden that only Washington could spring. And it did.
A $23.9 billion addition to the NDAA would have a greater longterm impact than Congress wants to acknowledge.
One can only surmise that a combination of saber rattling and fear mongering over China has truly had an effect.
The Taliban may be talked out of poppy production if the price is right.
Reports that a key reactor has been restarted indicates Kim Jong Un is frustrated with Biden’s lack of diplomatic urgency. Is he right?
The foreign policy elite are focused on defending their reputations and privileges, not in confronting failure in Afghanistan.
It required a ‘whole of government’ response, but DC wasn’t firing on all cylinders. There is plenty of blame to go around.
Trump revived the unnecessary program that was cancelled long ago due to redundancy.
Start by asking who benefited from the protracted war, a question that will elicit uncomfortable truths about Washington.
Taiwan has increasingly become a test, though Japan’s interest in strengthening its security goes beyond Taipei.
Billions of dollars of US materiel is now in the Taliban’s hands; but which leader will be taken to task for it, or for anything?
An historian points out that our partners weren’t equipped to win without air support — but neither are we.
Though the insurgent group rushed to assure the West, its embrace of strict Islamic law leaves much to speculation.
It’s as predictable as the sun rising and setting, but that doesn’t mean we have to accept the games that the Congress and Pentagon play.