The Discrediting of U.S. Military Power
via Tom Dispatch (a version of this article appeared in the LA Times)
Americans lived in a “victory culture” for much of the twentieth century. You could say that we experienced an almost 75-year stretch of triumphalism — think of it [...]
How Quickly Will the U.S. Leave Afghanistan?
In the wake of several deaths among its contingent of troops in a previously peaceful province in Afghanistan, New Zealand (like France and South Korea) is now expediting the departure of its 140 soldiers. That’s not exactly headline-making news here in [...]
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Green Zones of the Mind, Guerrillas, and a Technical Knockout in Afghanistan
By Nick Turse
Republished by Tom Dispatch
Recently, after insurgents unleashed sophisticated, synchronized attacks across Afghanistan involving dozens of fighters armed with suicide vests, rocket-propelled grenades, and small arms, as well as car bombs, the Pentagon was quick to emphasize [...]
How Pakistan Makes Washington Pay for the Afghan War
By Dilip Hiro
Posted by Tom Dispatch
The following ingredients should go a long way to produce a political thriller. Mr. M, a jihadist in an Asian state, has emerged as the mastermind of a terrorist attack in a neighboring country, [...]
What History Should Teach Us About Blockading Iran
By Juan Cole
Posted by Tom Dispatch
It’s a policy fierce enough to cause great suffering among Iranians — and possibly in the long run among Americans, too. It might, in the end, even deeply harm the global economy and yet, history tells us, [...]
How Two Wars in the Greater Middle East Revealed the Weakness of the Global Superpower
Reposted by arrangement with Tom Dispatch
It was to be the war that would establish empire as an American fact. It would result in a thousand-year Pax Americana. It was to be “mission [...]
Obama’s Risky Oil Threat to China
Reposted by arrangement with Tom Dispatch
When it comes to China policy, is the Obama administration leaping from the frying pan directly into the fire? In an attempt to turn the page on two disastrous wars in the Greater Middle [...]
Lessons From the Dead in a No-Learning-Curve World
He was 22, a corporal in the Marines from Preston, Iowa, a “city” incorporated in 1890 with a present population of 949. He died in a hospital in Germany of “wounds received from an explosive device while on patrol [...]
This Is What Defeat Looks Like
Reposted by arrangement with Tom Dispatch
How about a moment of silence for the passing of the American Dream? M.R.I.C. (May it rest in carnage.)
No, I’m not talking about the old dream of opportunity that involved homeownership, a better job than your parents [...]
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