New York (Tomdispatch.com) – 4,000,000,029,057. Remember that number. It’s going to come up again later. But let’s begin with another number entirely: 145,000 — as in, 145,000 uniformed soldiers striding down Washington’s Pennsylvania Avenue. That’s the number of troops who marched down that very street in May 1865 after the United States defeated the Confederate […]
If US Special Ops are Winning War on Terror, why have they lost 1/2 of Afghanistan?
New York (Tomdispatch.com) – A U.S. drone strike in Yemen. (I could be talking about 2002 or 2018.) Missions by Green Berets in Iraq. (I could be talking about 2003 or 2018.) While so much about the War on Terror turned Global War on Terrorism turned World War IV turned the Long War turned “generational […]
Overstretch? US Special Ops Military deployed to 144 Countries Last Year
Sometimes shadowy missions ended in disaster
Terrorizing ourselves Silly: Surreal Pentagon Nightmares underpin $700 bn Budget
Military war games anticipated many of the fears articulated in Trump’s December 2017 National Security Strategy
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