United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin held a call with Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov. The Pentagon chief additionally spoke with Russian Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu. It was the first time Austin spoke with his Russian counterpart since May.
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Ryan McMaken Sells Secessionism in ‘Indispensable’ New Book
by David Gordon | Oct 24, 2022 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles
Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities by Ryan McMaken Mises Institute, 2022, 230 pp. Those of us who think that there should be no state at all, or at most a very limited one, must view all existing states with...
Dependence on Russian Nuclear Energy Frustrates Western Sanctions
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Oct 21, 2022 | News
Western reliance on nuclear energy technology from Moscow is interfering with US sanctions on Russia, driving Washington to seek alternatives as the United States and its European allies aim to decouple from Russia’s energy sector.
News Roundup 10/20/2022
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 20, 2022 | News Roundup
US News The White House will release 15 million barrels of oil from the strategic reserve in an effort to bring down gas prices before the midterm election. AP A month after E.Coli was detected in the drinking water of the USS Lincoln the Navy still can not determine...
Government Is Making Housing More Expensive
by Ryan McMaken | Oct 20, 2022 | Featured Articles
The average square footage in new single-family houses has been declining since 2015. House sizes tend to fall just during recessionary periods. It happened from 2008 to 2009, from 2001 to 2002, and from 1990 to 1991. But even with strong economic-growth numbers well...
Western Nations Speed Up Ukraine Arms Transfers to Prepare for Winter Warfare
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Oct 20, 2022 | News
The United States and its NATO allies are accelerating transfers of arms, warm clothing and anti-drone technology to Ukraine in preparation for months of bitter combat through the winter. Washington believes shoring up frontline forces before mud and ice set in will help Kiev to hold ground over the coming season.
DPRK Responds to South Korean War Games with Artillery Barrage Into Sea
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 20, 2022 | News
Seoul kicked off annual war games on Monday, prompting Pyongyang to fire over 200 artillery rounds toward the South’s maritime border in retaliation. American forces are taking part in the military exercises.
Joe Biden Is Not JFK
by Dan McKnight | Oct 18, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
This past weekend, without fanfare, passed two anniversaries which remind us why Bring Our Troops Home is such a pivotal organization, and why we deserve your continued support. First, it was the 20 year anniversary of George W. Bush signing the 2002 Authorization for...
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The Continuing US Icebreaker Fiasco
There will be no more new US icebreakers. There is no capability in the manufacturing base. There are no industrial design talent stacks or ability to build icebreakers that work under government contracts. The shipyard throughput is a little above zero. The Arctic is...
Kyle Anzalone on the Tom Woods Show!
Our very own news editor Kyle Anzalone has hit the Big Time. Check out his first (but surely not last) appearance on the Tom Woods Show, where he discussed all the latest in foreign policy news, from the Middle East to Eastern Europe.
The Yemeni Mouse That Roared
The picture above is the anti-ship missile employed by the Houthi in Yemen. American taxpayers have spent hundreds of billions of dollars on the world's most advanced naval force. The U.S.-led campaign against the Houthi rebels, overshadowed by the Israel-Hamas war in...
American Zampolit: The Coprophilia Military Media Complex
The Modern War Institute at West Point, like the War on the Rocks website, has been institutionally captured by a curious hybrid of left-wing culture warriors and the neoconservative "war on the world" fetishists. I used to have great admiration for a considerable...
Justin Raimondo Speech, ‘Why War Matters’
Our Anti-Imperialist Heritage Audio: From the Rothbard-Rockwell Conference in November 1995. Thanks to Pete.
KC-46A Pegasus Refueler Failure Continues
One of the components of American strategic projection has been the world's most prodigious and sophisticated aerial refueling fleet. There are currently approx 400+ KC-135s capable of refueling two receiver aircraft at the same time in the current USAF fleet. The...
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