Creating a national insecurity state
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.
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.
The assassination of Qassem Soleimani emphasizes America’s confounding inability to think through the role of military force as an instrument of strategy.
If U.S. troops in Iraq are attacked by Iran, the Trump administration will feel compelled to respond, and the U.S. will soon be fighting yet another war in the Middle East.
Something those of us who had already seen the U.S./coalition/NATO campaign in Afghanistan up close already knew has now been […]