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Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin: A Certain Kind of Diversity

by Maj. Danny Sjursen, USA (ret.) | Dec 10, 2020

Originally appeared at ScheerPost America’s first black presumptive secretary of defense grew up in the same town – Thomasville, GA – as the first black West Point graduate, Henry O. Flipper. I actually took select cadets from my civil rights history class to visit...

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The Right Side of History: Support Antiwar.com – Truth’s Quarter-Century Treasure Trove

by Maj. Danny Sjursen, USA (ret.) | Dec 7, 2020

Eric Garris and Scott Horton let me write pretty much anything I want. Maybe it shows. OK, we all know it does. That’s rarer than it might seem. Outside of the occasional tease about my vague left-leanings from that Antiwar.com CEO-editorial director combo, they’ve a...

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Biden’s Young Hawk: The Case Against Jake Sullivan

by Maj. Danny Sjursen, USA (ret.) | Dec 4, 2020

Originally appeared at ScheerPost Harry Truman. That’s who Jake Sullivan listed as his “political hero/inspiration,” in a Time Magazine “40 Under 40” profile. Fed a question so vague that he could’ve chosen anyone from Cleopatra to Clinton, that Sullivan...

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Dangerous Precedent: Military Force Works (For Some)

by Maj. Danny Sjursen, USA (ret.) | Nov 25, 2020

Predictions are tricky matters in world affairs – and as it turns out, prescience produces little in the way of public or personal vindication. There’s scant satisfaction when one’s subjects tend towards the tragic. Take the (for now) paused 44-day war in the South...

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What If They Held an Election and Nothing Changed in the War State?

by Maj. Danny Sjursen, USA (ret.) and Tom Engelhardt | Nov 23, 2020

In this mystifying moment, the post-electoral sentiments of most Americans can be summed up either as "Ding dong! The witch is dead!" or "We got robbed!" Both are problematic, not because the two candidates were intellectually indistinguishable or...

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The Things We Know, But Do Not Say, About the Costs of American War

by Maj. Danny Sjursen, USA (ret.) | Nov 20, 2020

This originally appeared at The Baraza. “Well, we like war. We’re a war-like people,” the comedian George Carlin, whom I’ve been missing of late, pronounced way back in 1992, on the heels of America’s triumphalist First Persian Gulf War “victory.” The cheers from his...

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Max Boot’s Revenge: Biden’s ‘A-Team’ in Their Own Words

by Maj. Danny Sjursen, USA (ret.) | Nov 17, 2020

Beware savvy, sophisticate liberals bearing gifts of evasive and ethically empty prose. Having, for my sins, spent a few weeks reading just about everything on offer from what unrepentant neocon zealot – and born-again Washington Post columnist – Max Boot dubbed Joe...

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Where Are They Now? Leaders From My Afghan Tour Are on to Bigger and Bankable Things

by Maj. Danny Sjursen, USA (ret.) | Nov 10, 2020

It’s one hell of an inversion. The colonels and generals who commanded at high levels during my 2011-12 Afghan surge tour may have lost the war, but they sure won the personal prosperity battle. The military campaign – strategically, at least – wasn’t even close this...

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The Tortured Legacy of the Mexican-American War

by Maj. Danny Sjursen, USA (ret.) | Nov 5, 2020

I had a horror of the Mexican War … only I had not the moral courage enough to resign. ~ Ulysses S. Grant (1879) The phrase “regime change wars” has, of late, taken on profound meaning and stoked massive controversy. When either Donald Trump,...

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America’s Still Strangelovian Schemes to ‘Win’ Nuclear Wars

by Maj. Danny Sjursen, USA (ret.) | Oct 30, 2020

"Global Thunder: Bombers practice for nuclear war." – Air Force Times, five days ago. The headline itself, its casual yet confident language – and that it barely raises a collective eyebrow – desperately deserves deconstruction. But in practice, this madness...

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