Originally appeared at The American Conservative.TAC contributor Gil Barndollar calls attention to the damage that endless war is doing to the military:The president has been rightly excoriated for these pardons, which dishonor the U.S. military and may degrade good...
So much for getting out of endless wars! President Trump has announced that he is sending 14,000 more US troops to the Middle East and may even send more. The reason is the manufactured "Iran threat" that Trump continues to delude himself over. Neocons are thrilled....
The celebration in London of NATO's 70th year has ended with a renewed purpose: the "challenges" posed by China. NATO is a military alliance, but the attendees were careful to point out that they do not view China as an enemy. So what is the point? Tune in to today's...
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Gideon Rachman tries to find similarities between the foreign policies of Trump and Obama:Both men would detest the thought. But, in crucial respects, the foreign policies of Donald Trump and Barack Obama are looking...
We who grew up in the time of the Apollo missions are more than aware of the arms-race angle to the Soviet and American forays into Earth orbit and beyond. Now, we must recognize that the space race is no longer mere ornamentation over earthly military...
President Trump's dropping of the "Mother of All Bombs" in Afghanistan is just the latest example of how the US war machine is delivering a scorched earth to those "liberated" by the US military. Already the environmental and health damage from that one bomb has...
Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard is a compelling choice for president in 2020. She’s principled, she’s against America’s disastrous regimen of regime-change wars, and she’s got the guts to criticize her own party for being too closely aligned with...
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Trump threatened to designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorist groups this week:President Trump said in an interview posted online Tuesday that he planned to designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations,...
President Trump's robust intervention on behalf of Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher has drawn widespread criticism, even and especially among members of the military. Should he be honored with the right to keep his status as a SEAL, as Trump contends, or does military...
A startling development in the alleged gas attack in Douma, Syria in April, 2018: Whistleblowing inspectors from the OPCW – the UN Agency that investigated the attack – have come forward to claim that the original report has been doctored and distorted to falsely...
