Tag Archives: US military policy

Is getting ready to pull out of Syria?SouthFrontTrump: US Will Withdraw From Syria “Very Soon” Or, is the US digging it for the long haul? US Deploying Heavy Military Equipment To Consolidate Its Presence In Syria’s Al-Tanf – Russian Foreign Minsitry

A strong legacy of U.S. leadership and engagement in global politics has been reduced today to what I call kinetic diplomacy – diplomacy by armed force. The ConversationFewer diplomats, more armed force defines US leadership today Monica Duffy Toft | Professor of International Politics and Director, Center for Strategic Studies, Fletcher School, Tufts UniversitySee also Higinio Polo has for a long time predicted the current tension in international relations. He spoke about this, in...

US empire is in decline. Reports of the end of the US being the unitary power in world affairs are common, as are predictions of the end of US empire. China surpassed the United States as the world economic leader, according to Purchasing Power Parity Gross National Product, and Russia announced new weapons that can overcome the US’ defense systems. What is happening in the United States, in response, is to do more of what has been causing the decline.... Too many wars on the periphery of...

Democrats deciding that Russia-baiting isn't such a good idea after all?I guess Putin's message came across that poking the bear's liar is not a great idea.Zero Hedge Senate Democrats: US Should "Urgently Engage" With Russia To Avoid A Military "Miscalculation" Tyler Durden See also SouthfrontUS Defense Undersecretary for Policy Confirms Russia Has Sensational Nuclear Weapons Technology

Washington can’t adjust to losing its role as global sheriff, and the entire world must bear the consequences. SalonNow the U.S. is playing spoiler role in Korea, Syria and elsewhere. But why? Patrick Lawrence, Salon’s Foreign Affairs Columnist

“The President has committed, as a matter of strategy, that we will not leave Syria. We are not going to declare victory and go. And that is not my opinion; that’s the President’s strategic judgment. We’re going to stay for several reasons: stabilization and assistance in the vital north and northeast, protection of our allies the Syrian Democratic Forces, who have fought so valiantly against ISIS in the northeast, try to work to help transform the political structures in that area to a...

Caitlan Johnstone gets the policy, strategy and tactics right, in line what we have been saying here for some time. It's about the US maintaining and extending global hegemony in face of the challenge of China's rise. The 2018 US National Defense Strategy all but spells it out. We are facing increased global disorder, characterized by decline in the long-standing rules-based international order… Translation: The so-called international liberal order that held sway in the West since...

The United States has pursued a decades-long policy of encircling, containing and if possible, undermining China as part of a larger strategy of achieving and maintaining what US policy papers call “primacy” over Asia. US policy has led to deeply-rooted networks operating within China’s borders and along China’s geopolitical peripheries to divide and destabilize the immense and increasingly powerful Asian state. These networks are funded and supported regardless of who occupies the White...

The U.S. military has put countering China and Russia at the center of a new national defense strategy unveiled on Friday, the latest sign of shifting American priorities after more than a decade and a half of focusing on the fight against Islamist militants.... “We will continue to prosecute the campaign against terrorists that we are engaged in today, but great power competition, not terrorism, is now the primary focus of U.S. national security,” Mattis said in a speech presenting the...

For all of these reasons, 2018 will be a year for vigilance and attention to detail in a world that is very troubled and moving towards disorder. US getting back at Russia for the defeat in Syria? The obvious outcome is that the US is on track to lose Europe.Une parole franche Herman Gref in "The Financial Times": a grave warning that merits our full attention Gilbert Doctorow | European Coordinator of The American Committee for East West Accord Ltd.