Losing Vietnam: 50 Years Later

April 30th marked five decades to the day since America officially lost the Vietnam War. In a new column, the Institute’s Ted Galen Carpenter explains that over the past 50 years, Washington failed to learn a single significant lesson from that failure: “Although the...

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Wars as Money-Laundering Operations

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. “Fighting a war to fix something works about as good as going to a whorehouse to get rid of a clap.” ~ Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead I read Norman Mailer’s fine book about World War II, “The Naked and...

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