Although so far, President Obama seems to have less warlike inclinations than George W. Bush (perhaps damning by faint praise) – getting out of Iraq, finally scheduling to mostly pull out of Afghanistan, and going against all national security advisers by refusing...
Believe the War on Terror has been an unmitigated disaster? Find it difficult to wrap your head around the Long War’s long list of horrors? Think the Obama administration and Congress’s willingness to wage the War indefinitely is murderous myopia? Think again: the War...
You could, of course, sit there, slack-jawed, thinking about how mindlessly repetitive American foreign and military policy is these days. Or you could wield all sorts of fancy analytic words to explain it. Or you could just settle for a few simple, all-American...
The much-awaited Senate Armed Services Committee hearing – and vote – on Chuck Hagels' nomination as Secretary of Defense finally arrived, and once again the neo-McCarthyites stole the show. Unfortunately for them, their numerous curtain calls failed to yield bouquets...
One M.E.K. member died of injuries sustained in a Saturday rocket attack on the Iranian dissident group's temporary home at Camp Liberty. The death brings the total number of fatalities to seven. Gunmen in Kirkuk killed an elder of the al-Obeid tribe. In Mosul, gunmen...
MANILA, Feb 11 2013 (IPS) - After a year of intense diplomatic standoff and territorial brinkmanship among disputing states in the South and East China Seas, the U.S. military ‘pivot’ to the region appears to be in full swing – a move that could further...
Not far behind many of our arguments about the legal use of drones in warfare is the hope that we’ll wake up tomorrow and they’ll just go away. No more wedding parties mistaken for an al Qaeda rendezvous. No more homes obliterated, no more after-action justifications...
In The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien's classic fantasy trilogy, the center of evil in Middle Earth is the land of Mordor, a desolate and evil country. From there Sauron, the Dark Lord, sends out his spies and agents in pursuit of his goal: the conquest of the...
It has been proposed that Executive branch lethal operations against US citizens be filtered through some sort of assassination court. A moment’s reflection should make clear that the primary motivation for proposing this kangaroo "court" is to insulate...
