The Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning has sailed near the Japanese island of Okinawa and the US territory of Guam over the past two weeks. The naval operations came at the end of a year which saw several military escalations between Washington and Beijing.
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US Warplane Reports Unsafe Encounter with Chinese Jet
by Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman | Dec 29, 2022 | News
The US Department of Defense released a video showing a Chinese fighter jet flying near an American RC-135 Rivet Joint reconnaissance plane. The Pentagon claims the incident occurred in the skies over the South China Sea.
COI #367: With the Iran Deal Dead, Israel Prepares for War
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 29, 2022 | Conflicts of Interest
On COI #367, Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman recap the disastrous foreign policy developments of the year, focusing on escalations with Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea, as well as the catastrophic trajectory of the Pentagon’s so-called “Great Power Competition.”...
News Roundup 12/29/2022
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 29, 2022 | News Roundup
US News The 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) increases the budget of the Pentagon’s newest branch by billions of dollars. The funding increase comes after a top Space Force civilian employee sexually harassed his subordinates and kept his job. The...
South Korea Says it Will ‘Punish’ North for ‘Provocations’
by Will Porter | Dec 29, 2022 | News
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has vowed more aggressive retaliation to military action by Pyongyang, calling to “punish” the DPRK soon after Seoul unveiled a new $440 million military spending package.
What Do Think Tanks Think? Proximity to Power and Foreign Policy Preferences
by Max Abrahms and Richard Hanania | Dec 28, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
This paper was originally published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Studies Association and is reprinted with permission of author. Through the use of survey methods, the study presents the first systematic comparison of America-based...
News Roundup 12/27/2022
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 27, 2022 | News Roundup
US News President Biden on Friday signed the massive $858 billion 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which is $45 billion more than he requested. AWC Russia The CIA has been using a European NATO country’s intelligence services to conduct sabotage attacks...
Self-Determination for Thee, But Not for Me
by Ryan McMaken | Dec 22, 2022 | Featured Articles
Opponents of secession in the United States often choose from several reasons as to why they think no member state of the United States should be allowed to separate from the rest of the confederation. Some antisecessionists say it’s bad for national security reasons....
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About Bloody Time They Let Him Go…BUT…
“About Bloody Time,” the common Aussie utters to the news that Assange is now free. They are letting Assange go free, to return to Australia. The condition was that he had to reach a plea deal. Admit he was guilty. A compromise that removes a man from his legal limbo,...
The Continuing US Icebreaker Fiasco
There will be no more new US icebreakers. There is no capability in the manufacturing base. There are no industrial design talent stacks or ability to build icebreakers that work under government contracts. The shipyard throughput is a little above zero. The Arctic is...
Kyle Anzalone on the Tom Woods Show!
Our very own news editor Kyle Anzalone has hit the Big Time. Check out his first (but surely not last) appearance on the Tom Woods Show, where he discussed all the latest in foreign policy news, from the Middle East to Eastern Europe.
The Yemeni Mouse That Roared
The picture above is the anti-ship missile employed by the Houthi in Yemen. American taxpayers have spent hundreds of billions of dollars on the world's most advanced naval force. The U.S.-led campaign against the Houthi rebels, overshadowed by the Israel-Hamas war in...
American Zampolit: The Coprophilia Military Media Complex
The Modern War Institute at West Point, like the War on the Rocks website, has been institutionally captured by a curious hybrid of left-wing culture warriors and the neoconservative "war on the world" fetishists. I used to have great admiration for a considerable...
Justin Raimondo Speech, ‘Why War Matters’
Our Anti-Imperialist Heritage Audio: From the Rothbard-Rockwell Conference in November 1995. Thanks to Pete.
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