Michael T. Klare

Michael T. Klare is a professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College and the author, most recently, of All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change and The Race for What’s Left. A documentary movie version of his book Blood and Oil is available from the Media Education Foundation. Follow him on Twitter at @mklare1

Climate Crisis

After the Cold War: Is the Climate Crisis the US Military’s Biggest Enemy?

Michael T. Klare

(Tomdispatch.com) – It was Monday, March 1, 2032, and the top uniformed officers of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps were poised, as they are every year around this time, to deliver their annual “posture statement” on military readiness before the Senate Armed Services Committee. As the officers waited for the committee members […]

Climate Crisis

All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon’s Perspective on Climate Change

Michael T. Klare

(Tomdispatch.com) – The Situation Room, October 2039: the president and vice president, senior generals and admirals, key cabinet members, and other top national security officers huddle around computer screens as aides speak tokey officials across the country. Some screens are focused on Hurricane Monica, continuing its catastrophic path through the Carolinas and Virginia; others are […]

Climate Crisis

Trump v. Climate Emergency: A Formula for Catastrophe in the Arctic

Michael T. Klare

By Michael T. Klare | – Donald Trump got the headlines as usual — but don’t be fooled. It wasn’t Trumpism in action this August, but what we should all now start referring to as the Pompeo Doctrine. Yes, I’m referring to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and, when it comes to the Arctic region, […]

Iran

Iran in Crosshairs Again: It is Always – Always – about the Oil

Michael T. Klare

By Michael T. Klare | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – It’s always the oil. While President Trump was hobnobbing with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the G-20 summit in Japan, brushing off a recent U.N. report about the prince’s role in the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo […]

China

Bolton may want War with Iran, but the Pentagon is Eyeing China

Michael T. Klare

(Tomdispatch.com) – The recent White House decision to speed the deployment of an aircraft carrier battle group and other military assets to the Persian Gulf has led many in Washington and elsewhere to assume that the U.S. is gearing up for war with Iran. As in the lead-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, U.S. […]

China

Has the Coming Sino-American Conflict Already Begun?

Michael T. Klare

In the Western Pacific, the U.S. has stepped up its naval patrols and forged new basing arrangements

Artificial Intelligence

“Alexa, Launch Our Nukes!” Artificial Intelligence and the Future of War

Michael T. Klare

Artificial intelligence, or AI, soon will play an ever-increasing role in military affairs

China

New Cold War or New Global Tinderbox?

Michael T. Klare

the United States and its rivals are engaged in an accelerating arms race, focused on nuclear and “conventional” weaponry

China

Tripolarity: Are Trump, Putin & Xi Divvying up the World?

Michael T. Klare

The pundits and politicians generally take it for granted that President Trump lacks a coherent foreign policy. They believe that he acts solely out of spite, caprice, and political opportunism — lashing out at U.S. allies like Germany’s Angela Merkel and England’s Theresa May only to embrace authoritarian rulers like Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North […]