Scott speaks with FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley about the institutional failures that occurred before and after the 9/11 attacks. Rowley believes that there are many ways the attacks could have been prevented ranging from better information sharing between agencies...
Vietnam
9/3/21 Danny Sjursen on Afghanistan, Veterans and Counterinsurgency
by Scott Horton | Sep 6, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Danny Sjursen and gets his reaction to the Taliban victory in Afghanistan. Sjursen thinks the Taliban’s campaign to take control of the country may soon be studied in war colleges. He also thinks that Scott’s book Fool’s Errand should be studied at...
9/3/21 Gareth Porter on the Media’s Reaction to the Withdrawal From Afghanistan
by Scott Horton | Sep 5, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter joins Scott on Antiwar Radio to discuss his latest piece about the media’s reaction to Afghanistan. Porter lays out how virtually the entire media ecosystem is arguing the withdrawal was done prematurely from both a counterterrorism standpoint and in...
9/3/21 Dan McKnight on Defend the Guard and the Withdrawal From Afghanistan
by Scott Horton | Sep 4, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks with Dan McKnight about the effort to pass Defend the Guard legislation, which would block the use of National Guard troops in foreign combat operations without a declaration of war. McKnight gives background on what led him to become involved in political...
8/30/21 Jack Murphy on America’s Failed Drone Campaign in Afghanistan
by Scott Horton | Aug 31, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks with Jack Murphy about the piece he wrote detailing the surge in drone strikes that took place under President Trump. Murphy explains how the whole project started when a distraught drone operator approached him. It quickly became clear that that drone...
8/27/21 Ashraf Nubani on Why Sirhan Sirhan, the Man Convicted for Killing Robert Kennedy, Ought to Be Released
by Scott Horton | Aug 30, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews attorney and writer Ashraf Nubani about his recent piece making a case for releasing Robert Kennedy’s convicted assassin Sirhan Sirhan. Nubani explains that Sirhan meets all the stated requirements of the parole board and that the pressure to keep him...
8/27/21 Daniel Davis on the Kabul Airport Bombing
by Scott Horton | Aug 30, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott speaks with Daniel Davis about the suicide bombing at the entrance to the Kabul Airport. Davis considers this an especially devastating attack because the soldiers killed were only days away from being withdrawn from the country. He also believes that these...
8/27/21 Peter Van Buren: There Will Be Another Afghanistan
by Scott Horton | Aug 30, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks with Peter Van Buren about the situation in Afghanistan. Van Buren explains that many of the people tasked with working on the Afghanistan War were, in fact, working to cover up their own role in the war. And that these individual failures played off each...
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Scott Horton And I Talk About Global Conflict
In case you missed my interviews in the last two years with Liberty Chieftain Scott Horton: Ep. 6044 - Bill Buppert on the Threat of Terrorism and the Changing Nature of Warfare - 4/18/24 Ep. 5857 - Bill Buppert: A Deep Dive into Irregular Warfare - 2/17/23 Email me...
Quincy Institute Interview
The great Kelley B. Vlahos interviewed me about my new book Provoked today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKKGi9HEBC0
Trump & the Neo-Cons – The Second Inauguration of Donald Trump: New Episode of the Kyle Anzalone Show
Kyle Anzalone breaks down the highlights (or lowlights) from Trump's inaugural address.
Red Sea Follies and a Navy in Disrepair
The beat-down goes on administered by the non-naval armories of the Houthis in Yemen. Geoff Ziezulewicz avers: Those SM-6 missiles are a cool four million dollars a pop. A rather chilly one third of a billion dollars in SM-6 expenditures alone. 320 million dollars....
Journalism in Action: Holding Blinken Accountable on Gaza! New Episode of the Kyle Anzalone Show
Journalism in Action: Holding Blinken Accountable on Gaza A powerful confrontation between journalists and Secretary Blinken reveals the urgent need for accountability in U.S. foreign policy, particularly regarding the situation in Gaza. The episode highlights how...
The Navy Adrift [Again]: Failure Cascades in the DDG(X)
Another incipient program doomed to failure, cost ballooning, massive incompetence and buyer's remorse. The program should be stopped immediately and every flag officer currently serving fired, the Department of the Navy SES structure gutted and cashiered and blow the...
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