Why Can't the World's Best Military Win Its Wars?
“Americans need to rethink war and look honestly at ourselves and our friends.”
By Arnold R. Isaacs, Published on Tuesday, May 01, 2018 by TomDispatch
“Nine-tenths of the way to the year 2020, U.S. soldiers, with all of their firepower and technology, have not achieved anything close to total dominance on the battlefields where they have been engaged.”
“… after Vietnam you’d think military professionals and the rest of us wouldn’t have gone on as long as we did in subsequent conflicts without realizing that America’s very idea of war in these last decades needs reexamination and so do the stories U.S. commanders keep telling themselves, their superiors, and the rest of us about our accomplishments and our allies’ capabilities.”
The Soldier’s Tale — “There are always young men and women ardent for glory, seduced by the power to inflict violence and naive enough to die for the merchants of death.” (includes an explanation of Pat Tillman’s death)
Billions spent on Afghan army benefit Taliban
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Vietnam and Afghanistan Similarities
Deceptions and Lies in America’s Wars... Vietnam and Afghanistan similarities. (INTERJECTION - In his below 24-page synopsis of his new book, “The Afghanistan Papers,” Craig Whitlock lays bare a cover-up of the Afghanistan war, VERY similar to the lies I remember the...
Not All It Can Be: The US Military Is Failing
The US military is one of the few institutions that the vast majority of the public praises, but its strategic failures on the battlefield and lack of accountability in its ranks expose an organization that is deeply flawed and out of step with 21st-century needs. This according to Tim Bakken, the first civilian promoted to professor of law in West Point’s history. He eventually blew the whistle on corruption at the military academy and, after the Army retaliated against him, became one of the few federal employees to win a retaliation case against the US military.
Former Bush Administration Insider Reflects on the Failure of the Iraq War
This is not a short piece, but the similarities of behind-the-scenes manipulation of facts, complete ineptitude and publicized rationale, by U.S. administration war-mongers of the then-Iraqi war and today’s dealings with Iran are downright scary. ~ Don Chapin
A New World is Dawning and the US Will No Longer Lead It
REPOST: “…American global power has been eroding for some time…The power of other countries has grown, giving them both the ability and the desire to effect global affairs independently of U.S. desires.”
The Soldier’s Tale
The Soldier’s Tale: “There are always young men and women ardent for glory, seduced by the power to inflict violence and naive enough to die for the merchants of death.” REPOST