Escalation Scam: Troops in Afghanistan
The president has set a limit on the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. For now. That's how escalation works. Ceilings become floors. Gradually. A few times since last fall, the Obama team has floated rising numbers for how many additional U.S. soldiers will be...
Will What We Don’t Know (or Care to Know) Hurt Us?
One Step Forward,
One Step Back
According to the July 3 Cleveland Plain Dealer, President Barack Obama said something very interesting last week. He told the AP that he has "a very narrow definition of success when it comes to our national security interests" in Afghanistan. "And that...
In Afghanistan, 4,000 Marines to ‘Drink Lots of Tea’
After months of planning and putting pieces in order, aspects of the new U.S. strategy in Afghanistan are beginning to be concretely implemented -- including a surge of troops and attempts to curtail the poppy trade that allegedly funds insurgents. But some aspects of...
US Uses False Taliban Aid Charge to Pressure Iran
The Barack Obama administration has given new prominence to a Bush administration charge that Iran is providing military training and assistance to the Taliban in Afghanistan, for which no evidence has ever been produced, and which has been discredited by data...
A Modest Proposal for Garrisoned Lands
Abstract Quality Journalism for War
A Secret History of Dissent in the All-Volunteer Force
Shorter title: Dissent in the Volunteer Military
Resistance didn’t end with Vietnam, says Dahr Jamail
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