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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Contours of The Global Imperial Architecture
Antiwar.com recently published an article jointly written by Institute Director Scott Horton and this author (Weeks). The piece, “Strategic Treason: The Empire Fetes Man Who Killed US Troops,” discussed Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s trip to New York City, which...
The Most Important Chapter of Hayek’s Most Important Book
Economist Friedrich Hayek's most popular book, The Road to Serfdom, contains a particularly important chapter titled "The End of Truth." That chapter, with a new foreward by economist Daniel D. Klein of George Mason University, is now available to read with updated...
Standards!
Secretary of War Hegseth recently brought the perfumed princes to the Pentagram to give a short speech on standards. I am glad for the name change since the DoD has never troubled themselves with defending the nation. Someone: "How come there aren't any fat Marines?"...
Short Story – Context
He clenched his fist around the USB, impatience gripping him as he waited. He had just finished pacing only to sit down, unaware of his rocking back and forth. Once he saw her, he was back to his feet. He wanted to push it into her hand and disappear. Instead, she...
The Impasse
Liberty is only acceptable for a virtuous people.
The Great Enrichment Is Real
From about 1800 to the present the world's economy did something good, which looks to be permanent and looks to be justified. If contrary to the evidence we cling to our prejudices about economic history—our view that the Industrial Revolution was improverishng, or...
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