I witnessed the fear inspired by Blackwater and the military in Iraq
Not surprisingly, Iraqis believe their lives are no longer cheap, and that the time for accountability has come.
Not surprisingly, Iraqis believe their lives are no longer cheap, and that the time for accountability has come.
Both Vietnam and Iraq remain bizarrely undigested, their true meaning yet to be discerned and acknowledged.
Why not deploy diplomats to demilitarize space and save the money for earth-bound problems.
Amid an unprecedented Pentagon shakeup, an outspoken defense reformer who wants out of endless war, finally gets his shot.
Another steward of the status quo who promised reforms and never delivered, exits the stage.
The defense secretary is being hailed for his reforms, but what we got is standard budget fare dressed up to look like a new menu.
The former general is selling books and sounding off about Afghanistan talks but he is ignoring how the majority of veterans really feel.
The few. The proud. The Naval landing party?
The Navy wants to build up the fleet and include unmanned vehicles that aren’t fully tested or proven to operate in contested waters.
The DoD says it has yet to confirm Moscow was paying the Taliban to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Why is the media so silent?
Whether you’re reading this with your morning coffee, just after lunch, or on the late shift in the wee small hours of the morning, it’s 100 seconds to midnight.
Trump critics love them. But after nearly 20 years of shameful war promotion, failures, and lies, these guys are no paragons of virtue.
Senior military officials were quick to call for change within their ranks. But change will neither be easy, nor quick.
Trump unsurprisingly got some things wrong when he invoked the right to bear arms in his speech threatening to send the military to quell protests around the country.
Just as quarantine and social-distancing measures have transformed people’s lives and work in the U.S., Washington’s war fighting will have to adapt.
The defense industry is exploiting the pandemic to ask for bailouts and reduced government oversight. It should be paying back the American public instead.
The United States’ expensive national security apparatus has been conspicuously useless in efforts to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
A near-record level of global deployment by U.S. Special Forces last year came amid questions of malfeasance by some of America’s most elite troops.
The White House’s proposed Pentagon budget is “only” $740.5 billion. But the actual national security figure comes in at more than $1.2 trillion.
There is no significant anti-war movement in America because there’s no war to protest. Let me explain. In February 2003, […]
U.S. imperialism in the early twentieth century produced Smedley Butler, but the interventionism of this century hasn’t produced a single comparable figure.