Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Reading NBC News Wednesday morning, I saw where the U.S. “is winning decisively, devastatingly and without mercy,” so claimed self-styled Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. “We are only four days in,” he added,...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Here are some macro ideas and thoughts about America’s latest war of choice with Iran: 1. It’s a war so call it that. It’s not “strikes” or “major combat operations.” 2. It’s an unconstitutional, illegal,...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. I woke to the news that Israel/USA is launching attacks (New York Times) and strikes (NBC News) against Iran. The BBC used “joint attack” for the Israeli/U.S. war plan. Three sources, and all three avoiding...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. From the New York Times this morning: In Israel, the two defense officials said that significant preparations were underway for the possibility of a joint strike with the United States, even though no decision...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. The Pentagon has failed eight consecutive financial audits. For decades it has been unable to account for trillions of dollars. It has not won a major war since World War II. That is not a record of...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Back in 2007, Senator John McCain suggested that if the U.S. lost its war in Iraq, it wouldn’t be the military’s fault. It would rather be the fault of opponents of that war, who formed an irresolute and...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Two headlines caught my eye this AM in my email media stream. From the New York Times: “How the Trump Administration Rushed to Judgment in Minneapolis Shooting” There was no “judgment” displayed in the...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Wow. Just wow. That was my response after reading “The Trillion Dollar War Machine” by Bill Hartung and Ben Freeman. The book’s subtitle captures the “wow” part succinctly: “How runaway military spending...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Yesterday, I went on Judge Napolitano’s show, and we talked about several challenging issues. Among them, the Trump administration’s military coup in Venezuela and the illegality of the same, the difficulty of...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Recently, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists featured a fiction contest: “Write Before Midnight.” I sent in an entry, which, sad to say, didn’t win. (The winners can be found here.) But that’s OK: I enjoyed...
