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The US Is Losing in Afghanistan
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 29, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #448, I discuss several news stories that are being ignored as the media obsessively covers impeachment. In Afghanistan, a US plane was downed and the UN announced it needs to provide basic aid to an additional three million Afghans this year. The US Embassy in...
Trump Is Right: Afghanistan Is A ‘Loser War’
by Phil Gibson | Jan 25, 2020 | Blog, Foreign Policy
"After three years of the Trump presidency, the Washington Post is breathlessly reporting that Donald Trump is a boor who insults everyone, including generals used to respect and even veneration. He’s had the impertinence to ask critical questions of his military...
Iraqis Protest U.S. Troop Presence
by Steven Woskow | Jan 24, 2020 | Blog
From CNN. "Hundreds of thousands of protesters marched through Baghdad on Friday calling for US troops to leave Iraq, heeding the call of powerful Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr who called for a "Million Man March." The Telegraph is reporting that U.S. and British...
A Beautiful Epitaph For Christopher Tolkien
by Scott Horton | Jan 23, 2020 | Blog
By Bradley J. Birzer in The American Conservative.
US Officials Have A ‘Disincentive’ to Tell the Truth
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 17, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #444, I discuss the Congressional hearing of the Inspector General for the Afghan War. During his testimony, he said US officials have a "disincentive" to tell the truth about the situation in Afghanistan, and we have created a situation that basically requires...
The Fallout and Lies of the Soleimani Assassination
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 15, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #443, I discuss the fallout of the Soleimani assassination and the lies the Trump administration is telling. Trump and his team have had to walk back all their claims that Soleimani was an imminent threat. Now, Pompeo has claimed the decision was made to...
What Percentage Of Your Life Has The US Been At War?
by Steven Woskow | Jan 9, 2020 | Blog
Philip Bump at The Washington Post Nearly a quarter of Americans have never experienced the U.S. in a time of peace
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Pentagon Fraud and Accounting Errors: Feature and Not Bug
2028. The plan is to spend four trillion more before they can deliver on proving where the money is going. You can't make this up. I read the GAO reports so you don't have to. If fraud was a Ferris wheel, it would be shaped like the Pentagon. The Marine Corps is the...
No Right To Repair: The Bandits Win Again
No one knows how to innovate better than the actual users of end-items and the Congress has manged to throw another bone to a bloated and ineffective bureaucracy by destroying right to repair for the services. US lawmakers have removed provisions in the National...
Royal Navy Submarine Force is Not “Fit for Purpose”
Vanguard class nuclear submarine But with all the scientists and engineers imported from Africa into the UK, how is this even possible? On a more serious note, it is high time for America to suspend its maintenance program of the Trident systems the UK uses. Yet...
The Kyle Anzalone Show [GUEST] Craig Pasta Jardula : Is Trump Imploding?
A kitchen joke about tomato sauce quickly gives way to the hard edge of politics as we unpack a growing fracture on the right. Trump’s volleys at Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie aren’t just personality drama; they point to a deeper shift toward a larger...
Pinker on Peace and Enlightenment
"If, despite impressions, the long-term trend, though halting and incomplete, is that violence of all kinds is decreasing, I think that calls for a rehabilitation of the ideals of modernity and progress, and it's a cause for gratitude for the institutions of...
The US Paper War Tiger is Way Behind
The Ukraine and Russian forces have been building drones for less than three thousand dollars and the "Affordable Mass" efforts in the US had an original floor price of three hundred thousand dollars because that is the way the American "defense" acquisition system...
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