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...
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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 Davis considers this an especially devastating attack because the soldiers killed were only days away from being withdrawn from the country.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...
8/27/21 Grant Smith on the Open Secret of Israel’s Nuclear Weapons
by Scott Horton | Aug 30, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Grant Smith about his recent article, which makes the case that the $3.8 billion in foreign aid given to Israel is on questionable legal grounds. It all comes back to Israel’s nuclear weapons, which the U.S. government has not officially acknowledged...
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Pinker on Peace and Enlightenment
"If, despite impressions, the long-term trend, though halting and incomplete, is that violence of all kinds is decreasing, I think that calls for a rehabilitation of the ideals of modernity and progress, and it's a cause for gratitude for the institutions of...
The US Paper War Tiger is Way Behind
The Ukraine and Russian forces have been building drones for less than three thousand dollars and the "Affordable Mass" efforts in the US had an original floor price of three hundred thousand dollars because that is the way the American "defense" acquisition system...
Caution: Hard Times Ahead
Comfort is a thief. Life is hard. Do more and suck less. Class dismissed.
Yet Another US Navy Surface Ship Fiasco
As I have mentioned, the US Navy can't catch a break from the cavalcade of calamities that is Navy shipbuilding for two generations. First they removed the 155mm gun when it was disclosed it was 800 thousand dollars a round Advanced Gun System (AGS) then it took five...
We: Records 1-5
Reading We, a Russian dystopian novel.
The US Navy Does the Right Thing: At Last
This is the first US Navy decision I can get behind in years. The US Navy just cancelled its Constellation class frigate program because it is absolutely incapable of building hulls and ships that work. They have not launched a successful surface ship since 1991 with...
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