Scott Horton's new book, Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism serves as an excellent guide to America's misadventures and war crimes since the 9/11 attack in 2001, including the endless war in Afghanistan, the wars with Iraq, our constant bullying of Iran,...
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The American Conservative Reviews Scott Horton’s Newest Book
by Hunter DeRensis | Apr 8, 2021 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
We’re approaching the 20th anniversary of the Global War on Terror when the George W. Bush administration made the decision to ruin the 21st century. Trillions of dollars spent, a permanent and expanding war bureaucracy on our shores, upwards of a million civilians...
How Ambassador Robert Ford Attempted to Whitewash the CIA’s Dirty War on Syria
by William Van Wagenen | Mar 31, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In a recent essay for Newlines Magazine, former U.S. ambassador to Syria Robert Ford discussed the ways in which the so-called Syrian revolution went wrong. He does so by recounting his interactions with two prominent Syrian opposition leaders, political activist and...
News Roundup 3/30/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 30, 2021 | News Roundup
US News An elderly man's home was raided by police, looking for a man who wasn’t there. During the raid, police beat the man in front of his great-granddaughter. [Link] The US is planning massive war games to simulate conflict with Russia and China. [Link] Biden says...
News Roundup 3/16/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 16, 2021 | News Roundup
US News Two people were charged with assaulting Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick. Sicknick died after the Capitol Riot. It is unclear of the assault - spraying an irritant at Sicknick - caused his death. [Link] The US increased its share of global weapon sales...
Still Think the War on Terror Works?
by Scott Horton | Mar 4, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Scott Horton
On Thursday, February 25, the Joe Biden administration bombed Iraqi Shi’ite militias in Syria, killing between 1–22 depending on who’s doing the reporting. Why did Biden order this strike? On February 15, there was a rocket attack in Erbil, the capital city of...
The Many Flaws of U.S. Nuclear Policy
by Ryan McMaken | Feb 26, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The threat of “nuclear proliferation” remains one of the great catch-all reasons—the other being “humanitarian” intervention—given for why the U.S. regime and its allies ought to be given unlimited power to invade foreign states and impose sanctions at any given time....
News Roundup 2/19/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 19, 2021 | News Roundup
US News Legal marijuana jobs increased by 77,000 in 2020. Now over 300,000 Americans work in the weed industry. [Link] Paul Sperry was suspended by Twitter. [Link] Texas police killed a man by setting on fire with their tasers. The cops received qualified immunity....
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The Icebreaker Follies Continue to Break the Bank and Not Deliver
Aiviq The US has 1.5 icebreakers because it has had to cannibalize one of its ancient and sclerotic icebreakers to make the remaining heavy work.But for all this, the same Coast Guard bought the Aiviq for $125 million late last year. And don't expect them to get this...
NGAD is DOA: The Air Force Continues to Fail
Sandboxx does a terrific overview of the problems inherent in this. While I have beaten the drum on the inherent challenges of emerging problems in Revolutions in Military Affairs throughout the 21st century, no one at the Pentagon is paying attention as they leap...
Anti-War Blog – They Are Not People
She looks up and pleads for mercy. Then the drone operator makes the decision to kill her. We get to see the life and death of war, the intimate terror as the mostly young are killed on the battlefield. Social media accounts share the misery with pornographic delight,...
New WarNotes Podcast Episode is Live Monday 27 January 2025
Ep 010 "Fixing Fight Club: Naval Warfare in the 21st Century" In the future near-peer and peer fight, salvo competition and missiles will be the preeminent means by which one country will kinetically overwhelm the other in a fight. I discuss the way the US Navy is...
Make The French Channel Great Again
Dear France, America will officially recognize that the French Channel is consistent with the identity of the Irish Sea. PS: Thanks for helping America defeat the English bastards from 1775-1783. For those interested in how the French and Spanish made American...
War on the Border: Considerations Left of Bang
There is talk of taking the war to the cartels in Mexico and I have questions: So how successful have drug interdiction efforts by the DEA and associated agencies and bureaucracies been so far? We'll just go back to 1972 to make the history simpler. Once you eliminate...
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