US News ‘Defend the Guard’ Legislation to Be Taken Up By Idaho State House AWC Biden Requests $895 Billion for Military Spending for 2025 AWC Maryland Lawmaker Attempts to Stonewall Bill to Block Deployment of National Guard in Undeclared War The Institute House...
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The CIA Admits Its Long-Time Presence in Ukraine
by Brad Pearce | Mar 13, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On February 25, The New York Times published an article titled “The Spy War: How the CIA Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin.” This report was not the result of any leak, but was clearly authorized from the highest level: the CIA brought reporters in to tell the story....
Putin Threatens To Use Nukes as NATO Continues Sabre Rattling
by Connor Freeman | Mar 13, 2024 | News
Moscow will use nuclear weapons if Russia perceives an existential threat to its independence or sovereignty, President Vladimir Putin reaffirmed on Wednesday.
How Washington Killed the Nuclear Arms Control System
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Mar 12, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
During the Cold War, world populations faced the ongoing nightmare of a nuclear attack coming out of the blue. All it would have taken was one miscalculation by either side. Such a trigger could even have taken the form of a false alert. We know that at least one such...
News Roundup 3/7/2024
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 7, 2024 | News Roundup
US News Texas Republicans Vote Overwhelmingly in Favor of Restricting Combat Deployments of State’s National Guard AWC Pentagon Using AI Program to Identify Targets in Middle East and Ukraine The Institute Ukraine Putin’s Draft Treaty Between Russia and Ukraine Did...
Biden’s Unpopular Wars Reap Mass Death and Nuclear Brinkmanship
by Connor Freeman | Mar 7, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
President Joe Biden, better known as Genocide Joe, in cooperation with a perfunctory legislative branch has mired the American people in savage, reckless, costly, and unpopular wars. The White House’s catastrophic foreign policy may force American society to a...
Ukraine and the Pretense of Democracy
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Mar 5, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
When Russian forces expanded their military presence in Ukraine in February 2022, U.S. officials and most of the Western news media portrayed the development as a brazen act of aggression by a dictatorship against a peaceful democracy. The reality was much more...
NATO Conducts Large-Scale War Games Across Nordic States
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 4, 2024 | News
NATO’s Nordic members – Finland, Sweden, and Norway – are hosting massive war games across the three nations. Finland and Sweden are the newest members of the alliance and will each contribute over 4,000 soldiers to the drills. The war games, dubbed Nordic Response...
Blog
The F35 Continues NOT to Stick the Landing
“I’m getting tired of over-promising and under-delivering,” F-35 program head Air Force Lt. Gen. Mike Schmidt said. The newly-envisioned Block 4 would instead focus on delivering “‘must-have’ content,” Schmidt wrote, which will include an undefined “subset” of 88...
At First I Hated Rian Johnson
For making the very worst Star Wars movie, Episode 8, and ruining Luke Skywalker. But now I realize that he was just making a film about how disappointing it was to meet Mark Hamill.
No Crickets for Cricket!
The governor of South Dakota, Kristi Noem, has been plagued by a self-inflicted and festering wound for about a week now. An excerpt from her soon-to-be released memoir, aptly and prophetically entitled No Going Back, has transformed the governor from a Republican...
Richman and Woods
Tom Woods and I discuss alleged antisemitism on U.S. college campuses:
Creative Control and Private Property
Private property isn’t about selfishness so much as it’s about creative control. Someone might want to have their own business, not because they’re greedy, but because they have a vision of how they want things to go that won’t be realized if everyone else gets a say...
RIP, British Army 1415 – 2024
John Cleese and the Monty Python troop were seers in the 1970s. I am fond of saying the British win all their military victories in spite of their best efforts. The IED virus is destroying the institution. The British Army is reducing security checks in pursuit of...