( Tomdispatch.com) – Recently, on a beautiful Kansas Saturday, I fell asleep early, exhausted by the excitement and ultimate disappointment of the Army football team’s double overtime loss to highly favored Michigan. Having turned against America’s forever wars and the U.S. military as an institution while I was still in it, West Point football, I’m […]
This is how America’s Afghanistan War ends– Not with a Bang but with a Mess
( Tomdispatch.com ) – Could Donald Trump end the Afghan war someday? I don’t know if such a possibility has been on your mind, but it’s certainly been on the mind of this retired U.S. Army major who fought in that land so long ago. And here’s the context in which I’ve been thinking about […]
Troika Fevers: Key American Allies in the Middle East are the Real Tyrants
(Tomdispatch.com) – American foreign policy can be so retro, not to mention absurd. Despite being bogged down in more military interventions than it can reasonably handle, the Trump team recently picked a new fight — in Latin America. That’s right! Uncle Sam kicked off a sequel to the Cold War with some of our southern […]
Goodbye to All That: The Forever Wars Go on Without Me
I’m active now in what little there is of an antiwar movement in this country
Trump’s 3 Generals may be Out, but the Forever War Lobby Still Rules
( Tomdispatch.com) – Leave it to liberals to pin their hopes on the oddest things. In particular, they seemed to find post-Trump solace in the strange combination of the two-year-old Mueller investigation and the good judgment of certain Trump appointees, the proverbial “adults in the room.” Remember that crew? It once included Secretary of State […]
US Planetary Military: From Failed Mideast Counter-Insurgency to Nuclear Brinkmanship
Make no mistake: war with Russia would be an unnecessary disaster — and it could go nuclear.
When US Allies Murder US Soldiers: Blowback From U.S. Policy in the Greater Middle East
(Tomdispatch.com) – He was shot in the back, the ultimate act of treachery. On September 3rd, a U.S Army sergeant major was killed by two Afghan police officers — the very people his unit, the new Security Force Assistance Brigade, was there to train. It was the second fatal “insider attack,” as such incidents are […]
The Imperial Presidency was always a Peril but now Volatile *Trump* can take us to War
Congress can’t just abdicate its Constitutional Prerogative of Declaring War
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