Mark Perry at Responsible Statecraft Macgregor, a West Point graduate, is an acquired taste: outspoken and controversial. He has flagged reporters with his statements about immigrants (we need martial law at the U.S.-Mexico border), Iranians (we need to look for areas...
Afghanistan
New Defense Secretary Says ‘All Wars Must End’ (Even Afghanistan)
President Trump’s acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller sent a memo to his Pentagon staff that signals he could have been appointed to carry out troop withdrawals in places like Afghanistan or Iraq. In the memo, dated November 13th, Miller addresses his staff...
News Roundup 11/13/20
US News Twitter says it has flagged 300,000 election-related Tweets. [Link] House Dems pen a letter to Biden asking him to pick a Secretary of Defense who has not worked in the weapons industry. The expected Biden pick has deep ties to the MIC. [Link] Japan’s Prime...
11/11/20 Danny Sjursen on the Profitable Post-Military Careers of his Afghanistan Commanders
Scott interviews Danny Sjursen about where his former commanders from Afghanistan have ended up in the years since the surge. Sjursen goes through a handful of these men: almost without fail, his former generals have ended up with profitable jobs in the arms industry...
The Pentagon Shakeup and What Could Have Been w/ Scott Horton
Scott joins Tommy to discuss the recent shakeups in the Pentagon, what the moves potentially mean, Trump's rhetoric vs Trump's legacy, and where Trump's foreign policy failed and why. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/strangerencounterspodcast/Scott.mp3
Do Mass Firings at the Pentagon Signal a Troop Withdrawal?
A major overhaul at the Pentagon that was started with the firing of former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper could be part of President Trump’s plan to carry out last-minute troop withdrawals from countries like Afghanistan, sources have told several media outlets. A...
Douglas Macgregor Joining Pentagon As Senior Advisor To Acting Secdef
Good news! From Axios: President Trump's newly installed acting Pentagon chief is bringing on a senior adviser in a sign the administration wants to accelerate the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Middle East before the end of his presidency in January, three people...
11/6/20 Dave DeCamp on the Foreign Policy of a Biden Administration
With Joe Biden apparently poised to be America's next president, Scott talks to Dave DeCamp about some possible foreign policy changes under the new administration. To begin with, DeCamp worries that Biden will use a recent uptick in violence as an excuse to keep...
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