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The Making of a Nation’s Decline
Jun 16, 2017 President Trump is giving America's tottering domestic and global systems the push that will send them over the edge.
Mosul on My Mind
May 16, 2017 Iraq’s military (and the U.S. Air Force), claims to be avoiding destruction in Mosul, but large parts of the city are likely to be left in ruins.
The Honeymoon of the Generals
Apr 25, 2017 Trump has lifted restraints on field commanders and let the military send more personnel to the Middle East.
Demobilizing America: A Nation Made by War and a Citizenry Unmade by It
Apr 4, 2017 For over 15 years, the U.S. has been fighting failed or failing wars—efforts that seem only to spread the terrorism they’re supposed to eradicate.
President Blowback: How the Invasion of Iraq Came Home
Mar 17, 2017 If you want to know where Donald Trump came from, don’t look to reality TV or Twitter. Look someplace far more improbable: Iraq.The World After Me: Eternal ‘Wartime’ in America
Jul 27, 2016 In this era, everything that further militarizes American foreign policy, puts the national security state in command and assures the continued demobilization of a scared and rattled citizenry creates yet more uprooted souls, more children without childhoods, more refugees.
Obama’s Mission Accomplished Moment?
Jan 14, 2012 When it came to rolling out a new 10-year plan for the future of the U.S. military recently, President Obama was at the top of his game.
Debacle! How Two Wars in the Greater Middle East Revealed the Weakness of the Global Superpower
Jan 4, 2012 It was to be the war that would establish empire as an American fact. It would result in a thousand-year Pax Americana. It was to be “mission accomplished” all the way. And then, of course, it wasn’t. And then, almost nine dismal years later, it was over (sorta).
An All-American Nightmare: This Is What Defeat Looks Like
Nov 9, 2011 How about a moment of silence for the passing of the American Dream -- Saddam Hussein’s nonexistent nuclear arsenal, dumb and even dumber decisions, a bloody civil war, dead Americans, crony corporations, a trillion or more taxpayer dollars flushed down the toilet. You know, George W. Bush's dream.