During a 7-minute interview today I was asked whether a lack of good intelligence accounts for the surprisingly rapid Taliban takeover in Afghanistan. I used the opportunity to ring some intelligence-related changes on what Aeschylus wrote so long ago: "In war,...
The Forever War Goes to Congo
The forever war has now apparently expanded to the Congo:US special operations forces have arrived in the east of the DR Congo to help in the fight against a feared jihadist militia enjoying "sanctuary" in the region's nature parks, US and Congolese sources said...
Conflicts of Interest: Hawks’ Boast of Obsessive Anti-China Paranoia as Basis for Policy
On COI #151, Kyle Anzalone explains how Biden’s China policy is being formed by officials who boast about being Sino-paranoid. Biden’s new Air Force Secretary said he was “obsessed” with China and was hoping to “scare” the CCP. The delusions of key Biden officials is...
Scott Horton on the Afghan Withdrawal: Fox Business Channel
Antiwar.com Editorial Director Scott Horton was a guest on Kennedy Nation of Fox Business Channel discussing American withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Guess Who’s The Taliban’s Biggest Weapons Supplier?
The lightening-fast Taliban takeover of Afghanistan has left billions of dollars of US weapons scattered around the country for the taking. And this doesn't just mean rifles or handguns. After 20 years of fighting them, the US has turned into the Taliban's biggest...
Cultivating Dependent Clients Is a Recipe for Failure
Anatol Lieven explains how the failure to anticipate the collapse of Afghan government forces illustrates how little the US understands Afghanistan even after twenty years:I remembered this episode three years later, when the Communist state eventually fell to the...
Scott Horton: U.S. Should Have Pulled Out of Afghanistan Years Ago
From Reason Magazine: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/reasontv-video.s3.amazonaws.com/reasontv_audio_8127490.mp3 Nick Gillespie of Reason Magazine talks with Scott Horton about Biden's defense of the withdrawal from Afghanistan, why U.S. foreign policy has been a...
Conflicts of Interest: Scott Horton on the End of a Fool’s Errand
On COI #150 the great Scott Horton returns to the show to discuss the collapse of America’s sockpuppet government in Kabul. Scott explains how he seemed to be one of the only Afghan War analysts to correctly predict how quickly – and mostly bloodlessly – the Afghan...
Afghanistan Aftermath: No Firings? No Resignations?
Joe Biden, who says the buck regarding Afghanistan stops with him in the White House, claims that the Taliban's final takeover of the capital, Kabul, provoking mass panic reminiscent of Saigon, 1975, happened more quickly "than anticipated." If that's true –...
Crunch Time in Congress for Selective Service
In the most significant Congressional debate about compulsory military service in the U.S. in decades, Congress is now actively considering multiple proposals related to draft registration and Selective Service.Ending draft registration would be one of the most...


