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Archives: Pentagon
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Pentagon To Recommend US Deploy Ground Troops in Syria?
TeleSur | - - Countries opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will meet on Friday for the first time since Donald Trump's U.S. administration took office. The U.S. Defense Department may recommend…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170224215807im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/02/menonconceit-180x137.jpg)
Could Trump’s War of Words with China turn Hot?
By Rajan Menon | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - Forget those “bad hombres down there” in Mexico that U.S. troops might take out. Ignore the way National Security Adviser Michael Flynn put…![Yemen withdraws blanket approval for US action after Trump’s botched Raid](http://web.archive.org./web/20170224215807im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/02/yemen-withdraws-blanket-approval-187x137.jpg)
Yemen withdraws blanket approval for US action after Trump’s botched Raid
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The the Arab press, reports that that government has withdrawn blanket permission from the Trump administration to conduct raids and drone strikes on…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170224215807im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/02/prophets-130x137.gif)
Trump’s 5th Bankruptcy: Budget-Busting Trillions to US Department of War
By William D. Hartung | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - At over $600 billion a year and counting, the Pentagon already receives significantly more than its fair share of federal funds. …![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170224215807im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/splinterlandspbk-2-180x137.jpg)
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Union, witnessing its denouement while serving in the U.S. military.…![Along with pardoning Manning, Obama should have repealed 1917 Espionage Act](http://web.archive.org./web/20170224215807im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/along-with-pardoning-manning-oba-187x137.jpg)
Along with pardoning Manning, Obama should have repealed 1917 Espionage Act
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - In a daring and bold move that showed his profound humanitarian side, President Obama has commuted the 35-year sentence of Chelsea Manning, a…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170224215807im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/41qRIpDIQhL._SX335_BO1204203200_-1-187x137.jpg)
US Iraq-Afghanistan ‘Burn Pits’ – Poisoning America’s Soldiers
Reviewed by H. Patricia Hynes | (Truthdig) | - - “The Burn Pits: The Poisoning of America’s Soldiers” A book by Joseph Hickman They are called “this generation’s Agent Orange”—the open fire…![Last Year the US Dropped 26,171 Bombs on 7 Muslim-Majority Countries](http://web.archive.org./web/20170224215807im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/last-year-the-us-dropped-26171-b-187x137.jpg)
Last Year the US Dropped 26,171 Bombs on 7 Muslim-Majority Countries
TeleSur | - - The countries include Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan. In the waning days of the Obama administration, new research by the Council on Foreign Relations, CFR,…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170224215807im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2016/12/splinterlandspbk-1-180x137.jpg)
Mr. Trump: Government and War are too Serious to be entrusted to the Generals
By William J. Astore | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - America has always had a love affair with its generals. It started at the founding of the republic with George Washington…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170224215807im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2016/12/gordonnuremberg-180x137.jpg)
Why is the US at War in Yemen and will Trump Escalate?
By Rebecca Gordon | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - The long national nightmare that was the 2016 presidential election is finally over. Now, we’re facing a worse terror: the reality of a…![All the President’s Men: The Warmongering Washington Blob is Back](http://web.archive.org./web/20170224215807im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2016/12/all-the-presidents-men-the-warmo-187x137.jpg)
All the President’s Men: The Warmongering Washington Blob is Back
By John Feffer | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | - - Shortly after taking office in 1969, President Richard Nixon devised his “madman theory.” It was the height of the Vietnam War,…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170224215807im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2016/12/shadowgovengelhardt-180x137.jpg)
The Election that Changed everything and Could be History’s Deal-Breaker
By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - For decades, Washington had a habit of using the Central Intelligence Agency to deep-six governments of the people, by the people, and for…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170224215807im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2016/11/bacevichamericaswar-180x137.jpg)
Trump’s Pentagon Hunger Games: The Generals “haven’t done the job.”
By Andrew J. Bacevich | ( Tomdispatch.com | - - President-elect Donald Trump’s message for the nation’s senior military leadership is ambiguously unambiguous. Here is he on 60 Minutes just days after…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170224215807im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2016/11/prophets-130x137.gif)
Will Trump bolster the Military-Industrial Complex?
By William D. Hartung | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - As with so much of what Donald Trump has said in recent months, his positions on Pentagon spending are, to be…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170224215807im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2016/11/countthedeadturse-180x137.jpg)
Will Trump really be Isolationist? Or will he March us to War?
By Nick Turse | (Tomdispatch.com) | - - “So is he going to win?” The question washed over me as I slumped in my hard plastic chair. I had passed the day…![US Goes to War with Houthis in Yemen (Openly)](http://web.archive.org./web/20170224215807im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2016/10/us-goes-to-war-with-houthis-in-y-187x137.jpg)
US Goes to War with Houthis in Yemen (Openly)
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The US Navy in the Red Sea fired Tomahawk missiles into Yemen early Thursday morning, taking out three radar stations. Those facilities had…![Iraq: Bush DoD paid PR Firm millions to Plant fake I.S. Videos, False Stories](http://web.archive.org./web/20170224215807im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2016/10/iraq-bush-dod-paid-pr-firm-milli-187x137.jpg)
Iraq: Bush DoD paid PR Firm millions to Plant fake I.S. Videos, False Stories
By Crofton Black and Abigail Fielding-Smith | ( The Bureau of Investigative Journalism ) | - - The Pentagon gave a controversial UK PR firm over half a billion dollars to run…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170224215807im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2016/09/emergingthreatp10_small-187x137.jpg)
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…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170224215807im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2016/09/shadowgovengelhardt-1-180x137.jpg)