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9/11 Wasn't the Pearl Harbor of Our Generationby Matthew Warshauer, 9/3/2021 Politico Quietly Scrubs Lockheed Martin From National Security Newsletterby Ethan Paul, 9/3/2021
How America Can Avoid Another Afghanistan Ted Galen Carpenter, 9/3/2021 New Poll Finds Majority of Americans Open to Sending Troops to Defend Taiwanby Daniel Larison, 9/2/2021
Defense Firms Spend $1 Billion Lobbying Since 2001, See $2 Trillion Returnby Eli Clifton, 9/2/2021 Lawmakers Pave Way for $1.2 Trillion in New Military Spending Over Next 10 Years Andrew Lautz, 9/2/2021
The Perils of Forgetting: Learn From the Afghan War or Repeat It!by Maj. Danny Sjursen (ret.), 9/2/2021 Ukraine: Washington's Bellicose Security Client Ted Galen Carpenter, 9/2/2021
Soldiers Are Losing Faith in Their Commandersby Hunter DeRensis, 9/2/2021 It's Time to Reassess Our Relationship With Israelby Sahand Yazdanyar, 9/2/2021
Christians, Stop Supporting Wars That Harm Your Christian Brethrenby Joshua Mawhorter, 9/2/2021 The Washington Blob on Video Doug Bandow, 9/1/2021
Afghanistan Is a Debacle - But You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yetby Edward Lozansky, 9/1/2021 Biden's Revenge: Fueling 'Madness of Militarism' in Afghanistanby Norman Solomon, 9/1/2021
Robert Gates and Those 'Transfer Cases'by Ray McGovern, 9/1/2021 Conservatives Give Bush and Trump a Free Pass on Afghanistan Laurence M. Vance, 9/1/2021
Thinking of Enlisting? Read This Afghan War-Inspired Warning Label First Brian McGlinchey, 9/1/2021 Who Authorized Afghanistan in the First Place?by Eric Brakey, 9/1/2021
The Casualties of Peace Declan Leary, 9/1/2021 Afghanistan Withdrawal Is a Shock to the Israel Lobbyby Philip Weiss, 8/31/2021
Ben Rhodes' Book Proves His Own Lies About Edward Snowden and Russia Glenn Greenwald, 8/31/2021 Biden's Afghanistan Withdrawal Reveals Pro-War Establishment Weimin Chen, 8/31/2021
Don't Wage Economic War on Afghanistanby Daniel Larison, 8/31/2021 Barely Out of Afghanistan, Now America Is Supposed to Save Tigray From Ethiopia and Eritrea?by Doug Bandow, 8/31/2021
Afghanistan Collapse Reveals Beltway Media's Loyalty to Permanent War Stateby Gareth Porter, 8/31/2021 Why US Negotiations Always Failby Ted Snider, 8/31/2021
Unworthy of the Sacrifice Grayson Quay, 8/30/2021 The Dangerous Rise of a New Stab-In-The-Back Mythby Joe Cirincione, 8/30/2021
Pyongyang's Reaction to Weak Washington Overtures Goes Nuclearby Jessica J. Lee, 8/30/2021 Ukraine Shuts Down Opposition Media - US Ambassador Applauds 'Daring Act', Calls for Supportby Bernhard, 8/30/2021
Looser Rules, More Civilian Deaths, Taliban Takeover: a Failed Drone Warby Jack Murphy, 8/30/2021 End the Imperial Presidency Stephen Wertheim, 8/30/2021
Robert M. Gates: Poster Child for Bureaucratic Deceitby Melvin A. Goodman, 8/30/2021 Afghanistan: a Tragically Stupid War Comes to a Tragic Endby Ron Paul, 8/30/2021
What Went Wrong in Kabul? Col. Douglas Macgregor, 8/30/2021 Biden Should Cancel the Sea-Launched Cruise Missileby Ellen Leonard, 8/30/2021
Biden and Bennett Tone Down Us-Israel Relationsby Mitchell Plitnick, 8/30/2021 For the US, There Was No Goldilocks Option in Afghanistanby Daniel R. DePetris, 8/30/2021
Processing the Afghanistan Defeatby Peter Van Buren, 8/30/2021 Your Tax Dollars Used to Support Criminals, Warlords, and Child Molestersby Joshua Mawhorter, 8/30/2021
Blame-Shifting: the Political Elites Response to the Messy Afghan Withdrawalby Ted Galen Carpenter, 8/30/2021 Afghanistan and the Sham of Democracy Promotionby James Bovard, 8/29/2021
Generals End-Run Around Civilian Intel Analystsby Ray McGovern, 8/29/2021 Washington's Hegemony Perches Over the Horizonby Brett Kershaw, 8/29/2021
Yes, They Died in Vain in Afghanistanby Doug Bandow, 8/29/2021 Military Contractor Says Afghan Withdrawal Is Hurting Profitsby Sarah Lazare, 8/29/2021
Review: Stalin's War: a New History of World War Ii David Gordon, 8/29/2021 After the Afghanistan Debacle, What's Next?by Edward Lozansky, 8/29/2021
Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki Would Have Been 26 Today if Not for the US Drone Warby Danaka Katovich, 8/27/2021 How the Defense Industry Helped Prolong the War in Afghanistanby Eli Clifton, 8/27/2021
For a New Isolationism by Murray Rothbard, 4/1/59 War is the Health of the State by Randolph Bourne, 1918
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