There was a satisfying victory—not just for our soldiers and veterans, but for all Americans. One week ago it was announced that the U.S. government had assassinated Ayman al-Zawahiri, who along with Osama bin Laden and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was the key planner...
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A Veteran Explains Why People Aren’t Joining the Military
by John Vaughn | Jul 20, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
A new report from NBC news has generated a lot of discussion about the relationship between the military and American society. Especially from right-leaning commentators, much of the blame is placed on the current administration and the apparent increase of “woke”...
The Libertarian Party is Beating the Drums for Peace
by Zach Kincaid | Jun 27, 2022 | Blog
For the people turning 21 this fall, America has been at war their entire lives. The Global War on Terror has reached its second generation of soldiers. Defense spending and the global presence of the U.S. military and armaments continue to proliferate. The...
Let’s Get ‘Defend the Guard’ on the Ballot in California!
by Zach Kincaid | Jun 3, 2022 | Blog
"Resolved, That the Libertarian National Committee: Calls upon the State Legislatures to enact legislation to prohibit the States’ National Guard and any member thereof to be released from the state into active duty combat unless the U.S. Congress has declared war...
Adam Kinzinger Executes Neocon Vision for Ukraine
by Patrick Macfarlane | May 5, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
As the war in Ukraine approaches its tenth week, the steady flow of ominous headlines has grown to a floodwater deluge. Dissenting observers are made to watch, seemingly helpless, as the broader levy of sanity threatens to break, unleashing a torrent of death and...
Elon Musk, Twitter, and the ‘Ministry of Truth’
by Bas Spliet | May 2, 2022 | Featured Articles
Just last week, I finally got around with starting to read Crime and Punishment, Fyodr Dostoevsky’s famous novel about a Saint-Peterburg student’s murder of an old lady pawnbroker. The murderer and book’s main character, Rodion Raskolnikov, got the idea from a fellow...
The Necro-Neologism of Lethal Legal Experts
by Laurie Calhoun | Mar 28, 2022 | Featured Articles
The power of language is magical to behold. Through the mere pronouncement of words, people can be persuaded to do what they would never have thought to do, left to their own devices. The playbook with the most success in this regard is that of war. When people are...
Warmongers Against Putin’s War
by Kym Robinson | Mar 8, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Revulsion to war is inconsistent for some. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has brought critics of this particular war to the antiwar movement, though they likely will return to their pro-war instincts when current headlines fade. For now, in the West, Vladimir Putin...
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Analysis of the ICJ’s Ruling that Israel’s Occupation Is Illegal
Scott Horton and I discuss the significance of the International Court of Justice’s recent ruling that Israel’s occupation is illegal.
Doubling Down on Failure: Ford Fiasco Follies
A new updated CRS report dated 5 August 2024 is out on the USS Ford debacle. I read these reports so you don't have to. For plenty of reasons, the carrier is the crossbow and chariot of the 21st century. Yet the US insists on spending tens of billions of dollars on...
The Case for Not Voting
Bretigne Shaffer and I explain why, if you want to effect real change, the most sensible thing you can do is to not vote.
The Royal Navy Submarine Force Remains Surfaced
The Royal Navy is experiencing readiness and maintenance shortfalls in its submarine force that is similar to the throughput problems for the US nuclear submarine forces. The logistical tail for exquisite platforms like nuclear submarines is enormous and a first world...
The F35 Follies: Britannia Rules a Little
My recommendation to the British MoD: don't buy anymore of these flying failure factories. U.K. planned to buy138 F-35s, bought 48, delivered 35, aims at 75 by 2025. Judging from the delays and failures universally in the program, achieving a delivery of all...
Anti-War Blog – Not Enough Paper Cranes
When I was in primary school we were taught about a little Japanese girl named Sadako Sasaki and her paper cranes. She was one of the many victims of the Hiroshima atomic bomb blast, dying after the initial detonation from radiation sickness. One of many thousands who...