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Top Civilian Leader Says the Army Needs a Complete Makeover…

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The Army is at a crossroads. It can either radically change the way it recruits and trains soldiers, develops and buys new weapons, and adapts its doctrine and tactics to modern warfare, or risk being as irrelevant as horse-mounted cavalry. That was the message Army Secretary Mark Esper, the service’s civilian leader, delivered Monday to […]

Unhappy 17th Birthday, Afghanistan War…

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Seventeen years ago today, the U.S. and Britain went to war to remove the Taliban from power in Afghanistan. It was morally and politically justified by the Taliban’s failure to surrender al Qaeda terrorists responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks. The Western alliance drove the Islamic totalitarians from power swiftly, within weeks. Yet, we’re still […]

Fifteen Years of Forever Wars by Chas Freeman…

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Fifteen years ago on May 1, 2003, speaking in Kabul, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld declared that, in Afghanistan, “we clearly have moved from major combat activity to a period of stability and stabilization and reconstruction activities.” Later that same day, standing on the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln, President George W. […]

Blair and Brown Governments Gory with Torture…

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Even I was taken aback by the sheer scale of British active involvement in extraordinary rendition revealed by yesterday’s report of the parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee. Dominic Grieve and the committee deserve congratulations for their honesty, integrity and above all persistence. It is plain from the report that 10 Downing Street did everything possible […]

Record Afghan Opium Crop Signals Violent Year for U.S. Forces…

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In Afghanistan, the world’s most powerful military is threatened by a small, pink flower. Despite an escalation of the Afghan conflict under the Trump administration, a record opium crop, coupled with steady Taliban gains, foretell bitter fighting in the coming months for American forces and the Afghans stationed alongside them. “Record-high opium production is but […]

The Apprentices: John McCain’s Foreign Policy Club…

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John McCain likes to joke that any senator not under investigation or detoxification sees himself as a candidate for president — in other words, not the type who would normally seek out professional mentorship. And yet, for many senators — past and present — that’s exactly the word they use to describe their relationship…

What Was the Liberal International Order?…

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There are sound critiques of Trump’s policies, then judgments marred by ignorance. Laments for the coming collapse of the “liberal international order” belong in the latter category. Articles on this system’s decay run through what Steven Bannon derides as “elite media”: The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, the New York Times, Washington Post and others. They suggest […]

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