National Security State

There was a period in my later life when I used to say that, from the age of 20 to my late sixties, I was always 40 years old; I was, that is, an old young man and a young old one. Tell that to my legs now. Of course, there’s nothing faintly strange in […]

For 40 Million US Working Poor, Trillion-Dollar Foreign Military Adventures Don’t Bring Security

Tomdispatch

The greatest threat day-to-day threat for millions of Americans isn’t terrorism or North Korea, it’s economic insecurity

National Security State

The Escalating Tragedy of American Imperial Overstretch

Tom Engelhardt

One of these days we may be facing “regime change” on a planetary scale

National Security State

When “Infinite War” becomes a Gravy Train in the United States of Amnesia

Andrew J. Bacevich

We’re repeating the Costly Mistakes of WW I Today

National Security State

Terrorizing ourselves Silly: Surreal Pentagon Nightmares underpin $700 bn Budget

Nick Turse

Military war games anticipated many of the fears articulated in Trump’s December 2017 National Security Strategy

Donald Trump

Should Trump Have the Discretion to Murder at Will? His Drones Are at It

Rebecca Gordon

The post-9/11 Authorization for the Use of Military Force is still used as justification for an expanding drone program

Militarization

America’s Forever Wars as Spectator Sport

contributors

By Andrew J. Bacevich | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – The purpose of all wars, is peace. So observed St. Augustine early in the first millennium A.D. Far be it from me to disagree with the esteemed Bishop of Hippo, but his crisply formulated aphorism just might require a bit of updating. I’m not a […]

Donald Trump

Psychopathocracy Matures: Trump asks why CIA did not Massacre family of Militant with Drone

contributors

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Greg Jaffe at the Washington Post reports that Trump has reversed an Obama-era push to get the Central Intelligence Agency out of the business of assassinating people with drone strikes (Obama had tried to shift most such operations to the Department of Defense). In the course […]

China

Oceania and Eastasia? New Cold War, this Time against both Russia and China?

Michael T. Klare

( 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, […]