Answering the armies of the cheated
What happened was this: shortly after the end of the Cold War, virtually the entire American foreign-policy establishment succumbed to a monumentally self-destructive ideological fever.
In a dangerous time: Toward preventing a disastrous US-China war
A new and global Cold War with China or, worse, a hot and potentially nuclear war with China, are the last things that humanity needs.
Moral injury and the forever wars
What Americans don’t want to hear...
Pivoting to America
Let’s reinvent the U.S. military for real national defense...
Why the US won’t be able to shirk moral responsibility in leaving Afghanistan
There are significant moral costs at stake in either remaining in or withdrawing from Afghanistan.
America’s Afghan war is ending. What about Iraq — and Iran?
Even as Biden sticks to the Afghanistan withdrawal, he's launching strikes in Iraq and delaying a return to the Iran deal.
Who authorized America’s wars?
And why they never end...
After 20 years and over $2.6 trillion, the US has lost its longest war...
And we still aren’t truly leaving, as Biden says bombings will still continue, as will “over the horizon” attacks on the Taliban.
On the brink in 2026
U.S.-China near-war status report
America’s Afghan war is over, so what about Iraq—and Iran?
Let’s hope Biden has learned another history lesson: That the United States should stop invading and attacking other countries.