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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.
The president’s threats are strangely unexceptional and unnervingly all-American.
Despite serious setbacks, Lockheed Martin’s defunct jet still has Washington’s ear.
For decades, the Pentagon has shored up its power and consumed too much of our national budget. Will we ever escape its pull?
A retired Air Force officer shares 10 cautionary tenets about our overreliance on bombing campaigns.
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American forces are engaged in an open-ended war on terror in 80 countries, costing nearly $6 trillion since 2001
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.
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