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Archives: Militarization

The Misuse of American Military Power and Mideast Chaos

By Danny Sjursen | (Tomdispatch.com) | - - The United States has already lost -- its war for the Middle East, that is. Having taken my own crack at combat soldiering in…

Is Steven Bannon marching America toward Messianic Apocalypse?

By John Feffer | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | - - What does it mean for international relations when the most powerful country in the world becomes a pariah state? [In] Der…

Trump Is Carpet-Bombing . . . U.S. Foreign Policy

By Phyllis Bennis | ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) | - - Already Trump is super-charging U.S. militarism, gutting diplomacy, and punishing the victims of wars Washington started. Very soon, Donald…

From Ugly American to American Bully

By William J. Astore | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - I came of age during America's Cold War with the Soviet Union, witnessing its denouement while serving in the U.S. military.…

Dangers of Trump’s Militarization of Government

By Rut Diamint | (The Conversation) | - - Should Latin Americans be concerned that Donald Trump has picked General John Kelly to lead the United States Department of Homeland Security? Kelly…

If Spec Ops are the future of the US Military, it isn’t Winning many Wars

By Nick Turse | (Tomdispatch.com) | - - Americans expect to be number one. First Lady Michelle Obama recently called the United States the “greatest country on Earth.” (Take that, world public opinion, and your…

America’s New Reality: Mad Bombers, Merchants of Death, & Lawmaking Harlots

By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - Recently, sorting through a pile of old children’s books, I came across a volume, That Makes Me Mad!, which brought back memories.…

Dear Generation Z: So sorry for bequeathing to you terrorism hysteria and all those Wars

By Peter Van Buren | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - I recently sent my last kid off for her senior year of college. There are rituals to such moments, and because dad-confessions…

Our American Crimes against the Future

By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - I recently dug my mother’s childhood photo album out of the depths of my bedroom closet. When I opened it, I found that…

Assassination by Robot is now US Policy

By Rebecca Gordon | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - Think of it as the Trojan Drone, the ultimate techno-weapon of American warfare in these years, a single remotely operated plane sent…

Has the US Military become a B Movie Alien for the rest of the World?

By William J. Astore | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - Perhaps you’ve heard the expression: “We have met the enemy and he is us.” Cartoonist Walt Kelly’s famed possum, Pogo, first…

The over-teched over-priced Weapons that Ate the Pentagon

By Andrew Cockburn | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - These days, lamenting the apparently aimless character of Washington’s military operations in the Greater Middle East has become conventional wisdom among administration critics…

The Iraq War isn’t Over; it is waged here, in our Hospitals every Day

By Mark Wilkerson | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - Memorial Day is over. You had your barbeque. Now, you can stop thinking about America’s wars and the casualties from them for…

Multi-Trillion Dollar Bridge to Nowhere in the Greater Middle East

By Andrew J. Bacevich | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - We have it on highest authority: the recent killing of Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour by a U.S. drone strike…

No US Troops on the Ground in Iraq & Syria . . . until there Were

By Peter Van Buren | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - One of the most popular apps these days is Snapchat. It allows the sender to set a timer for any photo…

Surges, Mission Creeps & Drones in the Mideast: America’s Forever War

By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - There are the news stories that genuinely surprise you, and then there are the ones that you could write in your sleep…

Chomsky – How the Elites’ ‘War on Terror’ Multiplies Terror

By Noam Chomsky | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - [This piece, the second of two parts, is excerpted from Noam Chomsky’s new book, Who Rules the World? (Metropolitan Books). Part 1…

Murdering Civilians: US Drone Whistleblowers Step Out of the Shadows

By Pratap Chatterjee | (Tomdispatch.com) | - - In a trio of recent action-packed movies, good guys watch terrorists mingling with innocent women and children via real-time video feeds from halfway across…

What GOP New Yorkers just voted for: Torture, Syria Intervention, murder of innocents

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - In the wake of his big win in New York, I want to push back once more against the normalization of Trump as…

The Euphemisms of War and Covering up American Military Failure

By William J. Astore | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - Introduction | By Tom Engelhardt | - - At the moment, there are a maximum of 3,870 U.S. military personnel (or 7,740…