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William J. Astore
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William J. Astore is a retired lieutenant colonel of the US Air Force. He has taught at the Air Force Academy and the Naval Postgraduate School, and now teaches history at the Pennsylvania College of Technology.
Jimmy Carter once canceled a massive weapons project because it was useless. Would Trump?
Americans are in the dark about the near-global warfare being waged in their name.
Isn’t it finally time to apply a little reason to our disastrous pattern of war-making?
American forces seek to dominate everywhere, but they win decisively nowhere.
It’s time to stop hiding from the crises we’ve created.
The stakes are higher now than ever. Get The Nation in your inbox.
Like the Soviet Union, it is now defined by surveillance, militarism, and shadow government.
Putting the military first, second, and third, apparently.
And military leaders are still under the delusion that we can win.
In a country that continues to embrace fear and violence, is it any wonder that a “birther” bully was elected president?
The president-elect’s main advisers are a clique of “warrior-generals” who may spell the end of the democratic experiment.
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