The Wall Street Journal reports, “the Pentagon has endorsed a plan to invest nearly $8 billion to bulk up the U.S. presence in the Asia-Pacific region over the next five years by upgrading military infrastructure, conducting additional exercises and deploying more...
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Trump Approves Direct Arming of Syrian Kurds With Heavy Weapons
by Jason Ditz | May 10, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Move Comes Ahead of Erdogan Visit to US Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was already making much of his plans to lambaste President Trump during his DC visit later this month, complaining about the US provision of arms and military support to Kurdish factions...
US Killing Civilians in Battle for Mosul
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | May 10, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
After a brief pause in the effort to liberate the western half of the city from Islamic State control, the American-led operation to retake Mosul has resumed in force. The pause came after a Mar. 17 coalition air raid that killed up to 270 civilians in Mosul’s...
Congress Should Just Say No to Trump’s Afghanistan Surge
by Thomas L. Knapp | May 10, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
With the US occupation of Afghanistan well into its sixteenth year and the country no closer to becoming a stable democracy than it was in late 2001, Antiwar.com reports that this isn’t an “all options are on the table” scenario. President Donald Trump seems to have...
No, sanctions won’t convince North Korea to give up their nukes
by Kevin McKenzie | May 10, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
No, sanctions won’t convince North Korea to give up their nukes In an article on Politico titled, "Yes, we do have a way to deal with North Korea," Peter Harrell declares that sanctions are the way to force North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons. Never mind that...
Bring U.S. Troops Home From Somalia
by Chris Rossini | May 8, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Sorrowful news comes from yet another area of the world where the U.S. has no business having troops stationed there. A U.S. Navy Seal has been killed in Somalia, marking the first death there since the 1993 'Black Hawk Down' incident when two Black Hawk helicopters...
Madison Was Right about War
by Jacob Hornberger | May 8, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Given that so many Americans continue to express gratitude to the troops for their forever service in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Syria, and elsewhere, it would be worthwhile to revisit the immortal words of James Madison, the father of the U.S. Constitution: Of...
President Trump: Cancel Your Saudi Trip, Play More Golf
by Ron Paul | May 8, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
President Trump is about to embark on his first foreign trip, where he will stop in Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the Vatican, before attending a NATO meeting in Brussels and the G-7 summit in Sicily. The media and pundits have loudly wondered why hasn’t he gone on a...
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