US News Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has hit out at Americans who prefer a less interventionist foreign policy, smearing them as isolationists who want to see the US “retreat from responsibility.” AWC Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has scheduled a...
Middle East
Top Defense Official: US Can Handle Middle East, Russia and China All at Once
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 5, 2023 | News
Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Christopher Grady said the Pentagon was prepared to fight a proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, aid the Israeli onslaught in Gaza, and arm Taiwan for a potential war with China. The Admiral argued all the military...
Ep 030 “US Military Special Operations Forces: US Army Special Forces”
by Bill Buppert | Dec 4, 2023 | Chasing Ghosts Podcast
Episode notes Here we do a deep dive in US Army Special Forces (SF) and why a complete overhaul is needed to resurrect the original charter to save SF from itself. Over two decades of fighting neo-colonial conflicts throughout the Middle East and Africa has decimated...
11/30/23 Muhammad Sahimi Debunks Myths About the Iranian Regime
by Scott Horton | Dec 3, 2023 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Muhammad Sahimi, a professor at the University of Southern California, is back on the show to discuss a recent article he wrote about Iran. Sahimi, who is from Iran, is no fan of the Iranian regime. However, there are a number of ways the Iranian...
This Week At The Libertarian Institute
by Will Porter | Dec 2, 2023 | News
The Empire never sleeps – but neither do we. Missed a story? We’ve got you covered. Check out this week in review at the Libertarian Institute.
A History of Sino-American Relations
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Nov 28, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The following lecture was delivered at Spring Arbor University, October 2023. There is hardly anything more important to the future of the world than Sino-American relations. And that’s quite a thing to say when looking at the state of the world these days. But over...
An Interview With Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University’s Historian of the Middle East
by Michael Holmes | Nov 27, 2023 | Featured Articles
This interview took place on November 3, 2023. Rashid Khalidi is a Palestinian-American historian of the Middle East at Columbia University in New York City and worked as an advisor to Palestinian negotiators in the 1990s in Madrid and Washington. He has written many...
News Roundup 11/24/2023
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 24, 2023 | News Roundup
Russia 45% of Americans Say the US Is Spending Too Much in Ukraine. Chicago Tribune Turkey Says Sweden Will Not Be Admitted Into NATO Before Next Week's Summit. Reuters Newsweek reports that the US may send Ukraine a modified HIMARS launcher capable of firing...
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US Hypersonics Off to Stuttering Start (Again)
This is part of the "prompt strike" initiative trying to increase the speed of delivery of munitions operationally. It took two years of delays to have a first test launch in December 2024 (maybe, Pentagon is shady on launch date actual); The missile at the core of...
Carrier Follies: Yet Another Failure Arrow in the Quiver
You had one job. Well, two. You can't launch and receive aircraft reliably. Nor apparently can you detect and deploy sensor capabilities to aim the aircraft that occasionally leave the very expensive deck. The radar has actually degraded over time. The dual-band radar...
David Hearst Explains Trump’s Plan to Ethnically Cleanse Gaza
Trump aims to help Israel ethnically cleanse Gaza and deepen its apartheid regime in the West Bank.
“Riviera of the Middle East…”
There’s optimism among the small government conservatives, liberty nationalists and MAGA hardliners from the first weeks of Trumps second presidency. The exposure of USAID to the world, revealing waste, nefarious conduct and ideologically bias that only proves that...
Fixing Fight Club: A Missive to DOGE
President Trump, SECDEF, Mr. Musk and DOGE, I am the host of Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast and WarNotes: A Conflict Podcast. You are about to embark on a dark journey to discover the existential mismanagement and beggared martial imagination of the...
Abolish Antitrust!
"That there is inequality of ability or monetary income on the free market should surprise no one. As we have seen above, men are not 'equal' in their tastes, interests, abilities, or locations. Resources are not distributed “equally” over the earth.16 This inequality...
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