Sitemap - 2018 - Bracing Views
Military Clothing for Presidents? No, Sir!
Trump, Troop Withdrawals, and Winning the 2020 Election
The Pentagon Budget: Aim High!
Does Scrooge Reign in the USA Today?
Seminary Rules for Students while on Vacation
The Pentagon’s $733 Billion “Floor”
For the U.S. Military, the World Is Not Enough
The Pentagon as a Herd of Elephants
A Few Comments on the Flag and the Pledge
Endless War and the Lack of a Progressive Critique of the Pentagon
Patriotizing the Arts – Patronizing the Audience
Afghan Parliamentary and Provincial Elections
American Fascism: No Longer Misleading
Fear of Defeat and the Vietnam War
An Open Letter to Senator Collins on Brett Kavanaugh
Brett Kavanaugh Should Withdraw
Of Brutal Binaries and Scale-tipping
The USA and Israel as Big and Little Prussia
Putting Labor back in Labor Day Weekend
Opening a Door for Trump is Part of John McCain's Legacy
Bobby Kennedy and the Critical Realignment that Didn’t Happen
Blurring Sports and the Military
Why Do Americans Admire the Military So Much?
Grade Inflation in the U.S. Military
Hollywood Stars and Sports Heroes: Uncle Sam Wants You!
The U.S. Postal Service: Ripe for Privatizing?
Declaring Independence from Walls, Weapons, and Wars
Trump and Noxious Notions of Masculinity
Thoughts on a Saturday Afternoon
Billions and Billions for the B-21 Stealth Bomber
The Best Don't Have to Boast: The Dangerous Myth of American Military Omnipotence
The U.S. Military Takes Us Through the Gates of Hell
Gina Haspel: A Torturer at the CIA
Ending Wars, Not “Winning” Them, Should Be America’s Goal
Why Is It Bad News When Military Spending Declines?
Technology Substitutes for Strategy in U.S. Military Operations
Why We're Outraged by Poison Gas
Reinforcing Failure in Afghanistan
Gina Haspel: A Torturer at the CIA
"People Who Cherish the Second Amendment"
It's a Free Country, and the Future of War
Islamophobia in the Trump Administration
Naming America’s Wars Is A Scary Enterprise
Ending America’s Cult of the Warrior-Hero
America's Phony Wars and the National Defense Strategy
Lockdown America and School Shootings
Why the Pentagon Gets So Much Money So Easily
The Siren Song of American Imperialism
A trillion here, a trillion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money
Sports, War, Fairness, and Fate: Lessons from My Dad
Debunking Spectator Sports: Confessions of an Anti-Sports Fan
Frederick Douglass on Patriotism and Taking A Knee
U.S. and Coalition Aid to Iraq Is Ungenerous and Self-Interested
David Petraeus: A Gold Medal Winner in Spin
Ike's Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex Is Alive and Very Well
Of Military Parades and Super Bowls
On Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Bloody Irreversibility
America’s Cascading Disaster in Afghanistan
Get the Widow on the Set: Trump's State of the Union Address
Two Notes on the U.S. Military
The Kennedy Administration: Camelot or Incompetence?
The Fall of the American Empire
Winning the Afghan War -- In Hollywood
The Most Important Country the U.S. Military Has Conquered
U.S. Politicians and their Love of the Military