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Archives: Militarization

The Violent “American Century”

By John Feffer | (FPIF) | Originally published in Korea Quarterly | - - The last near-century of American dominance was extraordinarily violent. Is it coming to an end? John Dower is…

America’s Special Ops Perpetual World War

Nick Turse | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - The tabs on their shoulders read “Special Forces,” “Ranger,” “Airborne.” And soon their guidon -- the “colors” of Company B, 3rd Battalion of…

First, the Soviets Collapsed: Is it America’s Turn Now?

By William J. Astore | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - Jump into your time machine and let me transport you back to another age. It’s May 2001 and the Atlantic Monthly has…

The Mystery of Washington’s Iran Derangement Syndrome

By Danny Sjursen | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - “Everywhere you look, if there is trouble in the region,” Secretary of Defense James Mattis told reporters on a mid-April visit to Riyadh,…

Was Chelsea Manning trying to stop the Endless War? Whistleblowing and Morality

By Peter Van Buren | (Tomdispatch.com) | <p>“My guilt will never go away,” former Marine Matthew Hoh explained to me. “There is a significant portion of me that doesn't believe it should…

How America’s Myth of the Infallible Generals gets us in Trouble

By Danny Sjursen | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - More, more, more. I was guilty of it myself. Commanding a small cavalry troop of about 85 soldiers in southwest Kandahar Province back…

How Many Defeats have Americans bought with $5 Trillion in War Costs?

By William D. Hartung | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - When Donald Trump wanted to “do something” about the use of chemical weapons on civilians in Syria, he had the U.S. Navy…

End the Imperial Presidency: Do we Really Want Trump Assassinating and Launching Wars at Will?

By Andrew Bacevich | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - Since the late eighteenth century, the United States has been involved in an almost ceaseless string of wars, interventions, punitive expeditions, and other…

Don’t want to lose the Next Mideast War? Don’t Fight One

Danny Sjursen | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - Make no mistake: after 15 years of losing wars, spreading terror movements, and multiplying failed states across the Greater Middle East, America will…

No, MSM: Man-Baby Trump didn’t become President with Missile Strikes

By Bill Moyers | BillMoyers.com | - - It’s been a week now since Donald Trump once again became our president. Here’s how it happened. After he unleashed missiles on a Syrian…

Who Profits from Trump’s dramatic but useless Bombings?

By William Astore | (Tomdispatch.com) | - - What does an “America-first” foreign policy look like under President Donald Trump? As a start, forget the ancient label of “isolationism.” With the end…

How our Standing Wars are Warping Us

Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - On successive days recently, I saw two museum shows that caught something of a lost American world and seemed eerily relevant in the Age…

Trump bankrupting us w/ Pentagon Budget suited to 1943

By Michael T. Klare | (Tomdispatch.com) | - - If you are an American male of a certain age -- Donald Trump’s age, to be exact -- you are likely to have…

Surging Trump’s America: What didn’t work in Baghdad won’t work in Washington

By Danny Sjursen | ( Tomdispatch.com | - - The other day, I found myself flipping through old photos from my time in Iraq. One in particular from October 2006 stood out.…

All the President’s Generals: Do they Want War with Iran?

By William D. Hartung | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - In the splurge of “news,” media-bashing, and Bannonism that’s been Donald Trump’s domestic version of a shock-and-awe campaign, it’s easy to forget…

Top 5 Hypocrisies of Trump Friday

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - On Friday, Trump was making news again, after having appeared to be subdued (or muzzled?) by his staff midweek. But he addressed the…

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.…