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This article is adapted from the new edition of Norman Solomon’s book “Made Love, Got War,” just published as a free e-book.

Will the U.S. military under Lloyd Austin's leadership recover its long-lost awesomeness?

In the post-9/11 years, military has become part and parcel of a distinctly all-American “surveillance” culture.

The military stood up to Donald Trump. Who will now stand up to the military?

That will require the United States to seriously reduce the military budget and commit to peaceful, practical diplomacy with China and Russia.

The president’s pledge of revenge in Afghanistan was a prelude to yet another episode of what Martin Luther King Jr. called “the madness of militarism.”

Climate change could function as a “threat multiplier” in already touchy regions of the globe, perhaps triggering armed conflicts over water, arable land, or other resources.

This is the moment to demand a substantial cut in military spending that defunds new nuclear weapons.

“Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism and militarism.”

Why Pentagon weapons programs rarely get canceled despite major problems...