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The F-35 Fighter: Not Invisible to Trump's Radar
Is the Idea of a Military Coup Hysterical?
Prussia Without the Victories: Kaiser Trump's Cabinet of Generals
The Trump Cabinet of Billionaires and Generals
The USA No Longer Sees Freedom and Liberty as Core Strengths
Big Blue Books: Bring Them Back!
The Conservative Critique of Higher Education Misses the Mark
What Will "Freedom" Mean in a Trump Administration?
Trump: A Worrisome Commander-in-Chief
Hillary Clinton's Deplorables and Irredeemables
Understanding Donald Trump's Appeal
Trump Wins! A Few Thoughts on Why
What Would My Parents Think of this Election?
Hillary versus Trump: How the Hell Did that Happen?
Islamophobia Must be Fought and Defeated
Two Points About the Hillary Clinton Email Fiasco
At the Pentagon, Nothing Succeeds Like Failure
Why is Petraeus an Expert on Mosul?
Trump Is the Grinch: What I Learned from Last Night's Debate
Why This Year’s Presidential Election Is So Depressing
Clinton, Trump, and the Cynicism of American Politics
Trump, the Anti-Obama, Ends in Tyranny
Trump and Clinton: Poor Choices for America
On Nuclear Weapons, Trump is Nightmarishly Scary
Greed-War: The Power and Danger of the Military-Industrial Complex
Ignorance and Dishonesty: Trump, Hillary, and Nuclear Genocide
Does Trump Really Want to be President?
The USA in Iraq: Putting Out the Fire with Gasoline
Post-Debate: Trump the Undisciplined
Quick Thoughts on Hillary and Trump before the Debate
Hillary Clinton's Deplorables and Irredeemables
U.S. Military Strategy: Of DDT, Bug Zappers, Lawyers, Guns, and Money
Forever War: A Peculiar Form of American Zen
Take the Oil! Trump the Imperialist
War Pabulum: The Perils of War as a Master Narrative
Which Hypocritical Billionaire Should Rule America?
My First (and only) Encounter with Bob Dylan
Hillary and the Earth Wreckers
Military Dissent and the Need to Save Democracy from Perpetual War
"People Who Cherish the Second Amendment"
Twelve Questions for this Fall’s Presidential Election
This November's "Choice" for President
Too Many Troops Have Died in the Name of Big Boy Pants
The U.S. Military in Science Fiction
A Revealing Moment at the Democratic National Convention
Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton’s Choice for VP, Speaks Volumes About Hillary
America's Wars as Choreographed Infotainment
The Alien Nature of U.S. Military Interventions
Drone Casualties: The New Body Count (Updated)
What It Will Take to Gain My Support in 2020
On the Afghan War and Israeli Aid
The Boorish and Sexist Vulgarity of Donald Trump
What Does Hillary Clinton Stand For?
Hillary's Clinching of the Nomination
D-Day Thoughts on Strength versus Weakness
Hillary Clinton's Flat and Misleading Foreign Policy Speech
A Few Comments on Jeremy Scahill's Article on the Attack Near Gardez
One Word Defines U.S. Foreign Policy: Hubris
Two Big Reasons Not to Vote for Trump
A Few Letters to My Dad during World War II
It Should Never Be Done Again: Hiroshima, 70 Years Later
The Pentagon’s Mantra: Spend, Spend, Spend
What Is So Awful about Donald Trump?
The Afghan War: Questions Unasked, Answers Unsought, Victory Unattainable
Plenty of Money for the Pentagon
Do We Need More Candidates for the Presidency?
Obama's Foreign Policy: Image over Substance
The "Liberal" Media Narrative on Bernie Sanders
Understanding Donald Trump's Appeal
The Vietnam War, the Pentagon Papers, and Lying
A Major Flaw of the U.S. National Security State
Hillary Clinton: The MOTS Candidate
Put ESPN in Charge of the War on Terror
“Members of the jury, you have just found Jesus Christ guilty”: Remembering the Catonsville Nine
Donald Trump and American Decline
Surging to Defeat: Learning from the Germans
“Unquestionably Syme Will Be Vaporized”: Lessons from Orwell’s 1984
This Modern and Dystopic World
Lying and Deception in the Iraq War – and Today
The Vietnam War, the Pentagon Papers, and Lying
The Missions Unaccomplished Force
Why Are PTSD Rates So High Among Veterans?
The Right Approach to Terrorism
Above the people, beside the people, against the people
“Members of the jury, you have just found Jesus Christ guilty”: Remembering the Catonsville Nine
America's Post-Democratic Military
Charles Darwin Has Much to Teach Us About War
Clinton versus Trump this fall?
The Bizarre and Scary World of Republicans
Last Night, Donald Trump Disqualified Himself
Might Makes Right: An American Tradition
Today's Pentagon as an Ant Farm
Why Fund the Arts and Humanities?
The Republican Debate of Texas
The Pentagon as Business and Church
What's the U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan?
Hillary Clinton: A Deeply Compromised Candidate
Donald Trump and American Fascism?
Bernie is More Generous to Workers than Hillary
The U.S. Military and Religion
Last Night's Nasty Republican Debate
A Message of Uplift Won New Hampshire
Republicans Are Scaring Me Again
Hillary to Bernie: You Smear Me When You Tell the Truth
Bernie Sanders Won Last Night's Democratic Debate
Where's the Anti-War Movement?
A Surefire Recipe for the End of Democracy
The Challenger Shuttle Disaster, Thirty Years Later
Defeating ISIS: Do We Even Have A Strategy?
The 2016 Presidential Candidates in a Word