The U.S. is poking the Russian bear with its burgeoning arms shipments, from safely outside the cage. For now.
Current Events
Condemn Russian aggression and critique western militarism?
War crimes in Ukraine committed by an occupying army today. But from Vietnam to Iraq, few called for trying US leadership as war criminals.
Why did the South Vietnamese flag fly over the Capitol riot?
US white nationalists and Vietnamese nationalists share a common condition: a radicalized nostalgia for a lost country and a lost cause.
Beyond Donald Trump: When Poisons Curdle
Some have described 2020 as this nation’s Worst. Year. Ever. Only those with exceedingly short memories will buy such hyperbole.
The Rubble of Empire
Doctrines of Disaster and Dreams of Security as the Biden Years Begin. This empire will fall sooner or later. They all do.
The United States Has Entered a Frightening Weimar Era
The violent storming of the Capitol by pro-Trump extremists underlines the face of crises to come.
Vietnam’s Shadow Over Abu Ghraib by Michael Uhl
President Trump pardoned four employees of the Blackwater mercenary corporation who were convicted of war crimes—three...
Nixon’s Leniency After My Lai Hurt Veterans. Trump’s May, Too.
Revisiting My Lai pardons in the wake of Trump’s clemency for four Blackwater mercenaries convicted of war crimes.
Trump’s pardons recall the case of Lt. Calley Jr., convicted in the My Lai Massacre
Today, President Trump pardoned four employees of the Blackwater mercenary corporation who were convicted of war crimes.
Reflections on Vietnam and Iraq; Lessons of Two Failed Wars
The Age of Biden beckons. Yet I’m anything but certain that 2021 will inaugurate a happier time. By Andrew Bacevich.
Nearly Twenty Years Since 9/11, Can We Finally Stop Marching to Disaster?
If you didn’t travel by plane much or weren’t deployed to Afghanistan or Iraq, it was hard to remember that we were still in war time at all.
New U.S. Citizenship Test Is Longer and More Difficult
Question #111 on the proposed new test is “Why did the United States enter the Vietnam War?” Answer: “To stop the spread of communism”
Fighting and Writing Against America’s Forever Wars
Podcast with William J. Astore and Danny Sjursen from fortressonahill.com. Bill Astore is a retired Lieutenant Colonel (USAF), professor of history.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the American Empire
As in Election Campaign 2016, Donald Trump isn’t the cause but a symptom (though what a symptom!) of an American world going down.