Michael Klare

Navy Building Up Near Persian Gulf: Next war awaits pretext

Michael Klare discusses his article his TomsDispatch.com piece, “Warships, Warships Everywhere, and Many a Bomb to Drop” counts the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier strike forces building up within striking range of Iran.

MP3 here. (16:22)

Michael T. Klare is the Five College Professor of Peace and World Security Studies (a joint appointment at Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst), and Director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies (PAWSS), a position he has held since 1985. Before assuming his present post, he served as Director of the Program on Militarism and Disarmament at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. (1977-84).

Michael Klare serves on the board of directors of the Arms Control Association, the National Council of the Federation of American Scientists, and the advisory board of the Arms Division of Human Rights Watch; he is also a member of the Committee on International Security Studies of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.