Sitemap - 2017 - Bracing Views
The Doomsday Machine: The Madness of America's Nuclear Weapons
Mike Pence's Visit to Afghanistan
The Biggest National Security Threats
The USA Is Number One -- In Weapons Sales
Trump, His Generals, and the Road to Authoritarianism
Jerusalem and an Alabama Senate Race
Donald Trump and His Global War on Truth
America's Cowardly Prison in Cuba
The Key Reason Why the USA Keeps Losing Wars
The Afghan War Isn't a Stalemate: It’s a Defeat
On Black Friday, the Hologram Is Revealed
U.S. Air Strikes and Civilian Deaths in the War on Terror
National Defense versus Global (In)Security
Business as Usual at the Pentagon
The Definition of American Insanity
Relentlessly Building Potency: The U.S. Military Encircles Russia
Trump Talks About the Military as if It’s His Praetorian Guard
The Attack on Critical Thinking
Bread and Circuses in Rome and America
The Dangerous Sophistry of Steve Bannon
The Atrocious Nature of the Vietnam War
The Vietnam War: A Tragic Mistake?
The American Military Uncontained
Ken Burns and the Vietnam War: Ten Items to Watch For
With the Pentagon, Trump Has Morphed Into Hillary Clinton
Trump’s Afghan War Speech: More of the Same, With More Killing
Of Historical Statues and Monuments
Military Control of the Civilian: It's Opposite Day in America
Trump: Much "Fire and Fury," Signifying Something Vital
The Blinding Power of Nationalism
On Afghanistan, Trump is Right to be Skeptical
Collateral Damage: A Terrifying Euphemism
The Bankruptcy of the Democratic Party
Diversion by Aspersion: Trump's Latest Tweet
Yet Another U.S. Surge in Afghanistan
Happy 4th of July! And a Global War on Something
The Ecology of War in Afghanistan
What's So Special About Special Ops?
Technology as Diversion from Social Inequality
Turning Temporary Problems Into Permanent Ones: America’s Real Military “Strategy”
Donald Trump and America's Decline
Trump Is Sending Us All to the Cornfield
Remembering the Quiet, Unsung Heroes
Trump and the Rewriting of History
American TV and Movies: Superheroes, Cops, and the Military
Base World: The Pentagon’s Profligate and Prodigious Presence
Trump Consumes All the Oxygen in Washington
Trump Shares Classified Material with Russia -- Duck and Cover!
Comey's Firing Is All About Trump
Donald Trump and America's Confused Values
The Only Way to Win America's Wars Is to End Them
Put ESPN in Charge of the War on Terror
American Kleptocracy under Trump
The Threat of Nuclear Weapons to America
Spin It to Win It: The High Cost of Trump’s Military “Strategy”
Hooper's War: An Imaginative Retelling of the End of World War II
America's Surging Warrior Ethos
America Needs a Stronger Anti-War Movement
The Republican Party of Wreckers
Mother Nature: It's Really Not Nice to Fool with Her
Jared Kushner: SWAT Team Leader!
What Should Democrats Do About Gorsuch?
Incurious Donald: The Woeful Trump Presidency
Trump Is Hurting the Pentagon! (By Giving It Too Much Money)
The Deeply Disturbing Trump-Merkel Press Conference
Trump: Yet Another War President?
A Contrary Perspective on the Middle East
America Is the Greatest Country? Look At Our Health Care -- And Weep
The Iraqi Surge and Alternative Facts
Afghan War Update: Fail, Fail Again
The Endless, Victoryless, Afghan War
Sun Tzu, Steve Bannon, and the Trump White House “Warriors”
Cynicism: It Defines Trump’s Words and Deeds
Lessons and Propaganda from the Botched Raid on Yemen
Splinterlands: A Dystopic Novel for Our Trumpian Age
Two Big Reasons Not to Vote for Trump
What Is True National Security?
The U.S. Military’s Limited Critique of Itself Ensures Future Disasters
General Flynn’s Resignation: A Holy Warrior Derails Himself
Lessons and Propaganda from the Botched Raid on Yemen
Pentagon Spending: Up, Up, and Away!
I Went Down to the Demonstration: The March on Washington
America: Submerged in a Violent Cesspool
The Challenger Shuttle Disaster, Thirty Years Later
Hasten Very Slowly to War: The Spartan Ethic, with Lessons for America
Trump, Time Magazine's Narcissist of the Millennium
How News about the U.S. Military and America’s Wars is Manipulated, Massaged, and Falsified
Martin Luther King, Jr. on America's Spiritual Death