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Archives: National Security State
Back to Quagmire: Beware endless US Troop Escalations in Afghanistan
By Danny Sjursen | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - We walked in a single file. Not because it was tactically sound. It wasn’t -- at least according to standard infantry doctrine. Patrolling…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,…
Erdogan, Trump, the Russians and General Flynn: The Tangled Web
By Carl Max Kortepeter | (Informed Comment) | - - When Sally Yates testified that she had told the Trump Organization, before his appointment as National Security Adviser, that General Flynn was…
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…
Clapper Lied & Spied, now charges Trump w/ assault on Gov’t Institutions
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - During the past week we've been subjected to hours of testimony by or interviews with James Clapper, former Director of National Intelligence. On…
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…
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…
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…
Dems Should be Careful about using Deep State to get at Trump
By Ian Berman | (Informed Comment) | - - Ever since the November election, Democrats have been looking for a reason to take down President Trump and vindicate Clinton’s loss. Refusing to…
How the Iraq War came Home & brought us Trump
By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - If you want to know where President Donald Trump came from, if you want to trace the long winding road (or escalator) that…
I Am an Enemy of the People (Feffer)
By John Feffer | ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) | - - If Trump cracks down on journalists, there might be less uproar than you'd think. Even before the election of…
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…
Zombie America: Is it too late to Fight Trump’s Real-Life Dystopia?
By John Feffer | (Tomdispatch.com) | - - Dystopias have recently achieved full-spectrum dominance. Kids are drawn to such stories -- The Giver, Hunger Games -- like Goths to piercings. TV shows…
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.…