Tag Archives: US military policy

This is flat nuts… Marx Brothers in Duck Soup nuts. Sic Semper TyrannisJames Jeffrey wants no-fly-zone over Syria… all of Syria TTG

What passes for US military strategy.Reminiscence of the FutureCutting Empire To Size, Or Yet Another "National Security" CrisisAndrei MartyanovAndrei Martyanov cites this. It's a must read. Gripping account.We Are The MightyThat time a Marine general led a fictional Iran against the US military – and won Blake StilwellSee also This year, the US has started to stress its intention of withdrawing from the 1987 INF Treaty not just because of Russia’s alleged non-compliance with it, but also...

Continually pushing for dominance in the backyards of the world's nuclear powers is madness. Not if one thinks that they can win a nuclear war, which the neocons apparently do. Then, it's perfectly "rational." The National InterestWhy America Shouldn't Threaten Preemptive War Doug Bandow | senior fellow at the Cato Institute and former special assistant to President Ronald ReaganSee alsoWorld Beyond WarAlice Slater: Time Out for Nukes!AlsoIn These TimesHow Pro-War Democrats Use Russiagate...

The Pentagon may not be advocating total war against both Russia and China – as it has been interpreted in some quarters Look at the behavior and its motives rather than the speech and spin. Global hegemony is a zero-sum game for the US. The stakes could not be higher. Obviously, the US has not built the military it has to defend the homeland or even its allies. The US would prefer to prevail through hybrid means rather than kinetically, but if not .... Even an amateur in...

Perhaps they had a chance back during the Obama days when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton proposed her amusing “Reset” in USA-Russia relations to the new Medvedew Presidency following Putin’s rotation to the seat of Prime Minister in March 2009. Had Washington been a bit more perceptive and offered serious alternatives, it is conceivable that Washington would today have a geopolitical isolation of their second major problem on the Eurasian Continent, namely, the Peoples’ Republic of...

Short backgrounder on the recent film, "Shock and Awe."How the neocons hijacked US policy with lies.Armstrong EconomicsWhy Did the USA Invade Iraq?Martin Armstrong

Fort Russ TRUMPS SECRET PLAN? Turn Russia into ‘battering ram’ against China Paul AntonopoulosSee also CounterpunchTrump, Putin & Helsinki: Henry Kissinger Still Calls the Shots Rajai R. Masri is a former lecturer of Finance at McGill University and Boston University.RelatedSic Semper TyrannisLet Mikey do it? Maybe not.Col. W. Patrick Lang, US Army (ret.) At the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lang was the Defense Intelligence Officer (DIO) for the Middle East, South Asia and...

Balanced assessment from a longtime insider.Jack Matlock BlogMr. Trump Goes to HelsinkiWilliam Polk on Trump, Helsinki, and U.S. Foreign Policy William Polk |  former professor of history at Harvard University and the University of Chicago, past president of the Adlai Stevenson Institute of International Affairs at University of Chicago, and sometime US diplomat and foreign policy consultant

Space wars is here. That should quickly rack up trillions for the "defense" industry aka the military-industrial complex (you remember, the one that Ike warned about).Sputnik International'No Matter What': US Poised to Deploy Space-Based Weapons by 2020 – ReportsSee alsoRussian Defense Industry Reveals Time Frame for Delivery of New Strategic Arms

Pulling a Kissinger. But coming from a country that can't keep an agreement…?And if an agreement were viable, what could go wrong? Bhadrakumar explains.Russia InsiderTrump Has a Grand Strategy, He Wants to Do a 'Reverse Nixon' -- Partner Russia for an Alliance vs China M. K. BhadrakumarSee alsoWhile Trump Has Been Running His Mouth on the New Nuclear Arms Race Russia Has Quietly Taken the Lead Scott RitteralsoLike Chuck Schumer said would happen. "Let me tell you: You take on the...