New Zealand The New Zealand shooter had ties to the Ukrainian Neo-Nazi Azov Brigade. [Link] New Zealand makes possession of the mosque shooter’s manifesto illegal. [Link] Haiti The Intercept explains why heavily armed American mercenaries were arrested outside the...
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Insubordinate Gen. Votel Denounces Afghan Withdrawal Plans
by Scott Horton | Mar 7, 2019 | Blog
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: U.S. General: Current Conditions 'Don't Merit' Troop Withdrawal From Afghanistan U.S. Army General Joseph Votel, head of the U.S. Central Command, has said that the current political situation in Afghanistan and the status of...
Peace Talks
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 1, 2019 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #317, I discuss Trump's meeting with Kim Jong-un and US talks with the Taliban. The meeting with Kim ended early and without a peace agreement. Trump said the talks were positive. In Qatar, US officials are meeting with Taliban leadership. The talks will be...
5 More Years in Afghanistan
by Scott Horton | Feb 28, 2019 | Blog
Dang. Thomas Gibbons-Neff says the Khalilzad deal will be to keep troops in Afghanistan for 5 more years, under the "Biden plan" for limited "counter-terrorism" and training missions while calling a truce with the Taliban and integrating them into the Kabul...
Taliban Attack Kills All 32 Afghan Troops at Border Post
by Jason Ditz | Feb 18, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
A remote Afghan border post was overrun on Friday in the Spin Boldak District of Kandahar Province, with officials confirming that the Taliban killed all 32 border troops within. Reports say that a single Taliban infiltrator climbed into the base’s guard tower,...
Trump Is Right, It’s Time to End the Afghan War
by Robert Gaines and Scott Horton | Feb 4, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Read the original at Breitbart.com. President Trump’s decision to withdraw 7,000 troops from Afghanistan, possibly leading to a complete withdrawal of U.S. forces from that country in the near term, is correct. The Taliban insurgency there has already replaced the...
Taliban Talks
by Scott Horton | Jan 28, 2019 | Blog
I'm just speculating and things, but Trump must be as insistent as hell to get Khalilzad and the State Department to push this hard. It's really something.
Foreign Troops to Quit Afghanistan in 18 Months Under Draft Deal: Taliban Sources
by Scott Horton | Jan 26, 2019 | Blog
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Focus on Incentives, Ignore ‘Good Intentions’. Keith Knight & Joseph Solis-Mullen.
https://youtu.be/ybD7vbnNDy4 The current President can teach us a lot about how incentives can alter a persons behavior. Assume you agree with me, that Trump is a nefarious actor. Was Trump more of a threat to humanity in the voluntary sector, or the political...
Radar Follies: The Delicate Golden Thread
What happens when billions of dollars of Western radars are shattered and decimated? Once fire direction can’t translate & collate Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) inputs to operable cueing and precise targeting for munitions, efficacy of fires...
Rules for Radicals, The Purpose w/John Weeks
John and I continue reading and commentary on the old revolutionary text, Rule for Radicals.
The Kyle Anzalone Show: Signals of War? US Evacuates Embassy in Israel, Trump Unhappy with Iran
Sirens don’t always sound before a war—sometimes the warning is a bland memo telling diplomats to pack. We open with the U.S. pullback of non‑emergency staff from Israel and track how similar moves in Lebanon and likely elsewhere signal more than routine caution. From...
The Kyle Anzalone Show: Americans Don’t Want War with Iran – US Officials Have a New Plan to Manipulate Them
A quiet leak says the loud part: some senior voices in Washington think the politics “work better” if Israel strikes Iran first. Not because it changes the threat. Because it changes the story Americans hear. We pull that thread and walk through the actual mechanics...
Anti-War Blog – The War Cycle
The special alliance of Israel and the United States have attacked Iran, again. How severe and protracted this war shall become, we do not know. The lapdogs of empire likely will support their masters, the usual coalition such as America’s Ghurkas, or Australia, what...
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