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

(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 […]

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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 […]

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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

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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”

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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.

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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.

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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 […]

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Trump’s 3 Generals may be Out, but the Forever War Lobby Still Rules

Danny Sjursen

( Tomdispatch.com) – Leave it to liberals to pin their hopes on the oddest things. In particular, they seemed to find post-Trump solace in the strange combination of the two-year-old Mueller investigation and the good judgment of certain Trump appointees, the proverbial “adults in the room.” Remember that crew? It once included Secretary of State […]