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Nobody–Including the Trump Administration–Knows What America’s North Korea Policy Is

by James Holbrooks | Aug 9, 2017 | Blog

This article originally appeared at Anti-Media. A day after President Donald Trump warned that the military would unleash “fire and fury” on North Korea if it continued to threaten the United States, two top Trump administration officials delivered conflicting...

Trump wants to install military-industrial complex lobbyist as Army chief at the Pentagon

by James Holbrooks | Jul 26, 2017 | Blog

This article originally appeared at Anti-Media. Last Wednesday, it was reported that Donald Trump was moving to nominate Raytheon lobbyist Mark Esper for secretary of the Army. Raytheon is one of the “big five” defense contractors, and the president’s decision...

7/19/17 Mark Perry on contracting out the Afghan war

by Damon Hatheway | Jul 19, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show

Mark Perry returns to the show to talk about his latest exclusive for The American Conservative Magazine, "Bannon & Kushner Want to Outsource Afghanistan to Mercenaries." Perry explains that Kushner and Bannon are against a troop surge in Afghanistan, but don't...

7/17/17 Reza Marashi on how Trump is violating the Iran nuclear deal

by Damon Hatheway | Jul 18, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show

Reza Marashi returns to the show to discuss his most recent article, "Trump is Violating the Iran Deal." Marashi explains how the Trump administration is violating the Iran Deal by reneging on its part of the bargain pertaining to economic promises made to Iran....

Trump’s ISIS Plan: Another US Invasion?

by Ron Paul | Feb 23, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Just over a week into the Trump Administration, the President issued an Executive Order giving Defense Secretary James Mattis 30 days to come up with a plan to defeat ISIS. According to the Order, the plan should make recommendations on military actions, diplomatic...

Centcom Chief: US Needs More Troops in Syria

by Jason Ditz | Feb 23, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Comments Come Ahead of Official Pentagon Recommendations Defense Secretary James Mattis hasn’t finalized his recommendations for the ISIS war, and doesn’t expect to do so until the end of the month, but Central Command chief Gen. Joseph Votel seems pretty sure that...

Afghanistan Needs ‘Thousands’ More Troops, US General Says

by Kevin Baron | Feb 10, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

The commander of U.S. forces there lays the first major war decision on Donald Trump’s desk. Fifteen years after the U.S. invasion, Afghanistan is in a “stalemate” that will require several thousand more Western troops to break, the war’s top U.S. commander...

China’s Foreign Minister Pushes for Peace with the US, Globalization for the World

by James Holbrooks | Feb 7, 2017 | Blog

Australia — A day after China sent warships into the East China Sea—a less than subtle message to the Trump administration that the Asian superpower is prepared should the United States decide to make good on its vow to protect Japan—China’s foreign minister...

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A Warhead That Could: The Extinction Event for Exquisite Military Platforms

Chalk up another crafty Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) to the Russian military. I am hoping the West has noticed the game changer that a conventional warhead on hyper-sonic IRBMs and ICBMs has changed the balance of power in near peer and peer combat for the...

Economics Is about Individual Choice

"The light which the economic theorist can throw on an economic process, or on the outcome of such a process, is viewed as deriving from his ability to relate back the process to the individual acts of choice of which the process is made up. Through the theorist’s...

New WarNotes Podcast Episode is Live Monday 16 December 2024

Ep 005 "Fixing Fight Club: 21st Century Nuclear Renaissance" In this episode, a complete reassessment of American nuclear weapons has to be done. In the future near-peer and peer fight, nuclear weapons will be an option in the 21st century and no one can predict how...

How Far We’ve Come

"The conditions under which modern man of the capitalist West must act are different from those under which his primitive ancestors lived and acted. As a result of the providential care of our forebears we have at our disposal an ample stock of intermediate products...

The Vulnerable Capitalist

"Popular literature attributes enormous 'power' to the capitalist and considers his owning a mass of capital goods as of enormous significance, giving him a great advantage over other people in the economy. We see, however, that this is far from the case; indeed, the...

Winter is Coming to an American City Near You

It is much worse than Shawn Ryan thinks per his reactions during the interview. Sarah Adams discusses a forecast of an attack on the US from 1:12:00 to 1:25:00. There will be far more than 1k fighters (think train the trainer) because the aQ et al planners will...

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