Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. The military historian Dennis Showalter once told me that he didn’t care about the amount of fat around a general’s belly – he cared about the fat between a general’s ears. It was a telling quip, and one that...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. If there’s one thing we’ve learned (or re-learned, again and again) from the Pentagon it’s that all governments lie and that the first casualty of war is truth. From the Pentagon Papers in the Vietnam War to...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. I’ve taught military history “from Plato to NATO,” as we used to joke, but my expertise focused on technology and warfare. Along with “revolutions” and “transformations” in weaponry, I probably spent too much...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Since the 1940s, we humans have spent enormous sums of money on genocidal weapons. Untold trillions, actually, on arsenals that, if used, would destroy civilization while killing most other life forms on our...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. The LA Holocaust Museum recently suggested that “Never Again” is a fundamental lesson of the Holocaust. Then they took it back. Here’s the (almost) inconceivable story from Caitlin Johnstone: Israel supporters...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Last Tuesday, I appeared again on Judge Napolitano’s show. We talked about the Russia-Ukraine War and President Trump’s efforts to foster a peace deal, as well as the so-called Deep State and (briefly) the...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Something is Rotten in the States of America. America’s war budget now exceeds $1 trillion a year – an almost unimaginable sum. The Pentagon plans to spend $1.7 trillion “modernizing” a nuclear triad that...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. The real enemy of America isn’t Russia or China or Iran or any other country. It’s America’s own pursuit of persistent, pernicious, perpetual, and more or less permanent war or preparations for the same. It’s...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. It was obvious almost from the get-go what Israel was up to in Gaza. I wrote the article below in early December of 2023. Gaza was to be ethnically cleansed of Palestinians, full stop. Whether by bullets,...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. This month marks the 80th anniversary of the Trinity test, the first explosion of an atomic device in Alamogordo, New Mexico on July 16, 1945. Next month, of course, marks the grim anniversary of the Hiroshima...
