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Gilbert Doctorow is generally positive about the 2017 National Security Strategy that was recently released by the White House. It indicates a shirt toward foreign policy realism and away from the foreign policy idealism that characterized US policy since Ronald Reagan's presidency under neoconservative and liberal internationalist influence in both the Republican and Democratic Parties.Une parole franche Kissinger’s Fingerprints on the Trump Security Doctrine, 2017Gilbert Doctorow |...

ABSOLUTELY MUST-READ!!! 'Nuff said.Une parole franche Speech to The National Press Club, Washington, D.C., 7 December 2017Gilbert Doctorow | European Coordinator of The American Committee for East West Accord Ltd.

What, then, is US policy in the Middle East—under Trump, Obama, Bush and Clinton (and even earlier)? When all the rhetoric has been stripped away, we can identity quite clear, precise, and fairly consistent major strategic policy positions. First, Washington accedes to almost anything that Israel wants. This is an untouchable posture, a third rail, beyond any debate or discussion lest we anger the powerful Zionist lobby of AIPAC and end up being labelled “anti-Semitic.” The New York...

CIA. U.S. Air Force Colonel Fletcher Prouty was the chief of special operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1955 to 1964, managing the global military support system for the CIA in Vietnam and around the world. Fletcher Prouty’s book, The Secret Team: The CIA and its Allies in Control of the United States and the World, was suppressed when it was first published in 1973. Thousands of copies disappeared from bookstores and libraries, and a mysterious Army Colonel bought the entire...

With ever bigger military budgets, and ever growing ambitions, the U.S. military is relentlessly building up potency, which is nevertheless always framed as defensive, even benign. Something tells me the Russians don’t see it this way. Bracing ViewsRelentlessly Building Potency: The U.S. Military Encircles Russia William J. Astore, retired lieutenant colonel (USAF) and history professor who has taught at the Air Force Academy, the Naval Postgraduate School, and the Pennsylvania College of...

Sone who has been around the block tells like it is.Sic Semper TyrannisAmerica, Desperately Seeking An Enemy Publius Tacitus

A peek into the military mind. Zero HedgeUS Army Is Preparing For Decades Of Hybrid Wars Tyler Durden

US-Russian relations continue hanging in the balance with NATO's expansion in Eastern and Central Europe and the Pentagon's controversial actions in Syria. While the US continues portraying Moscow as an adversary, the standoff is unlikely to translate into a nuclear conflict, American academic Vladimir Golstein told Sputnik.The US and the NATO are no longer hiding their goals, they are beefing up their military presence on Russia's borders, Vladimir Golstein, Associate Professor of Slavic...

Apropos in light of all the furor over "Russian influence," what about Israeli influence through the American neocons? Philip Giraldi had the temerity to ask and found that it is not only politically incorrect, but it is also a firing offense.The Unz ReviewHow I Got Fired Philip Giraldi | former counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, and a founding...

Analysts have been predicting payback for Russia whupping the US in Syria? Is this part of it?UNIAN News (Ukraine)RFE/RL: U.S. military chief says he recommends providing Ukraine with lethal defensive aid