Pentagon

One Hell of a Hangover: All the American Wars We haven’t remembered Fighting that are Still going On

Tom Engelhardt

More than two years into the era of Donald TrumpAmerican air strikes in… yep, Somalia, are precipitously on the rise

Pentagon

Goodbye to All That: The Forever Wars Go on Without Me

Danny Sjursen

I’m active now in what little there is of an antiwar movement in this country

Pentagon

No Exit: America’s Senior Generals and the Trap of Infinity Wars

William J. Astore

(Tomdispatch.com) – “Veni, Vidi, Vici,” boasted Julius Caesar, one of history’s great military captains. “I came, I saw, I conquered.” Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton echoed that famed saying when summing up the Obama administration’s military intervention in Libya in 2011 — with a small alteration. “We came, we saw, he died,” she said with […]

Donald Trump

A Well-Regulated Militia in the Hands of an Out-of-Control President: Is Nat’l Guard his Toy?

Rebecca Gordon

(Tomdispatch.com) – A young friend is seriously considering joining her state’s National Guard. She’s a world-class athlete, but also a working-class woman from a rural background competing in a rich person’s sport. Between seasons, she works for a local farm and auctioneer to put together the money for equipment and travel. Each season, raising the […]

Pentagon

US must probe if Saudis gave US Weapons to al-Qaeda in Yemen: General

AFP

Saudi-led coalition has allegedly transferred American-made weapons and military vehicles to Qaeda-linked fighters, hardline Salafi militias

Donald Trump

America’s Endless Wars on Autopilot in our Endless Trumpworld

Andrew J. Bacevich

Still, I find myself wondering: If a proposed troop drawdown in Afghanistan qualifies as a “mistake”

Pentagon

Our Man from Boeing: Has the Arms Industry Captured Trump’s Pentagon?

Tomdispatch

Candidate Donald Trump saw the revolving door between government and industry as a problem.

Pentagon

So Much Losing: America’s Small Unending Wars of the 21st Century

William J. Astore

Endless war for any goal except to preserve the republic isn’t a measure of fortitude but the path to national suicide.

Pentagon

Do we need Tanf? US’s 4,775 global Military ‘Sites,’ cost us $716 bn/ yr.

Nick Turse

( Tomdispatch.com) – The U.S. military is finally withdrawing (or not) from its base at al-Tanf. You know, the place that the Syrian government long claimed was a training ground for Islamic State (ISIS) fighters; the land corridor just inside Syria, near both the Iraqi and Jordanian borders, that Russia has called a terrorist hotbed […]