In the first 2024 Republican presidential debate last week, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis touted his time in Iraq. “I learned in the military, I was assigned with U.S. Navy SEALs in Iraq, that you focus on the mission above all else, you can’t get distracted,” he...
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Tehran, Baghdad Agree to Disarm Kurdish Militant Groups
by Connor Freeman | Aug 28, 2023 | News
Iran announced it reached an agreement with Iraq to both disarm and relocate exiled Iranian Kurdish “armed terrorist groups” operating in camps in the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq (IKR) on Monday. Baghdad must accomplish the task before a mid-September...
Nikki Haley, the Most Reckless Candidate for President
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Aug 28, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
After the initial debate among GOP presidential aspirants, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley is clearly the darling of the hawks who have given us debacles in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Ukraine. Indeed, the laudatory assessments of her debate...
Gen. Milley: US Forces Will Remain in the Middle East for Years to Come
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 27, 2023 | News
America’s top general said that Washington plans to maintain its force posture in the Middle East. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley stressed the region's “significant” importance to America’s foreign policy. In an interview with Jordan’s Al-Mamlaka TV on...
Desperate U.S. Hawks Face Tough Choice in Ukraine
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Aug 22, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Even during the period of wild optimism in the United States during 2022 and early 2023 about Ukraine’s chances of defeating Russian forces, there was a small, dark cloud of doubt about what the Joe Biden administration would do if the prospects of victory unraveled....
Biographies of Empire
by Kym Robinson | Aug 16, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Many books have been written about the rise and fall of great powers. Authors after the fact speculate on what went wrong and how the decline started, while those contemporary writers during the ascendance promise a future of brilliance and endless prosperity. For...
Cluster Bomb Catastrophe
by Laurie Calhoun | Aug 15, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The U.S. government’s disdain for international law as expressed in the United Nations Charter, the Geneva Conventions, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was made plain during the Global War on Terror, through its offensive military invasions and its...
Trusting the 9/11 Commission Is An Automatic Disqualification
by Jim Bovard | Aug 14, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
The nation’s media and political establishment were horrified the other week when a presidential candidate cast aspersions on the 9/11 Commission report. Republican Vivek Ramaswamy, in an interview on Blaze TV, responded to a question on the 9/11 attacks, “I don’t...
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It Begins: Blow-back Will Commence Once Festivities Begin
United States declares eight Latin American drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. This will not go well and the sophisticated ratlines, logistics enterprises and support networks will be leveraged to the highest order for retaliatory strikes in CONUS....
Hinting at War and Disaster: Mexico Will Go Up in Flames
Here are some news items from the war on cartels. This is a very ominous development. After two weeks of US Air Force RC-135V/W Rivet Joint reconnaissance aircraft conducting multiple signals intelligence (SIGINT) operations along the US-Mexico border and in...
Comply or Be Burned to the Ground
The IED nonsense continues at professional military education institutions as the zampolits flee for cover. "The Engagement, Retention, and Equal Opportunity directly supports the Naval Academy's Strategic Imperative One: To recruit, admit, and graduate a diverse and...
National Greatness
“A nation which makes greatness its polestar can never be free; beneath national greatness sink individual greatness, honor, wealth and freedom. But though history, experience and reasoning confirm these ideas; yet all- powerful delusion has been able to make the...
Ep 013 “End of an Era: The Infantry Folds Its Colors”
New WarNotes Podcast episode is live Monday 17 February 2025. The age of the infantry is over after a thousands-year long reign in human warfare and conflict. The next 75 years in the 21st century will put paid to an august and enduring institution in human conflict....
Finding Faith w/Josh Childress
Coincidence isn’t a thing, but synchronicity is. You never know why you’re put in somebody’s life.
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