(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. […]
Has the Coming Sino-American Conflict Already Begun?
In the Western Pacific, the U.S. has stepped up its naval patrols and forged new basing arrangements
“Alexa, Launch Our Nukes!” Artificial Intelligence and the Future of War
Artificial intelligence, or AI, soon will play an ever-increasing role in military affairs
New Cold War or New Global Tinderbox?
the United States and its rivals are engaged in an accelerating arms race, focused on nuclear and “conventional” weaponry
Tripolarity: Are Trump, Putin & Xi Divvying up the World?
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 […]
As Pentagon Encircles China, Does Military Conflict With Beijing Loom?
From Beijing, the strategic outlook articulated by Secretary of Defense James Mattis is clearly viewed as threatening
Gearing Up for the Third Gulf War: a Future Cataclysm between US, Israel, Saudi and Iran?
It’s time for the rest of us to start thinking about what a Third Gulf War would mean
Oceania and Eastasia? New Cold War, this Time against both Russia and China?
( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – Think of it as the most momentous military planning on Earth right now. Who’s even paying attention, given the eternal changing of the guard at the White House, as well as the latest in tweets, sexual revelations, and investigations of every sort? And yet it increasingly looks as if, […]
Trump’s Plan to use Fossil Fuels to dominate the Globe
( Tomdispatch.com) | – – The new U.S. energy policy of the Trump era is, in some ways, the oldest energy policy on Earth. Every great power has sought to mobilize the energy resources at its command, whether those be slaves, wind-power, coal, or oil, to further its hegemonic ambitions. What makes the Trumpian variant […]