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Will the United States and other nations survive these escalating preparations for nuclear war? In fact, the U.S. government and others are increasing the role that nuclear weapons play in their "national security" policies.

There is probably no greater illusion in the field of national security than the idea of credible missile defense.

Except in the Pentagon’s Report

In the twenty-first-century version of war American-style, other ships have become the very image and essence of hardship and harm in ways that violate the most basic tenets of democracy and justice.

Nothing unites our political class like the threat of ending our never-ending war

“I was saying it the other day—’cause we’re doing a tremendous amount of work in space—I said, maybe we need a new force. We’ll call it the space force. And I was not really serious. And then I said, what a great idea." -- Donald J. Trump

The Military-Industrial Complex Strikes (Out) Again

It’s not that our generals don’t read. They do. They just doggedly continue to read the wrong books.

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When he talks about “the best” Americans, John Kelly means dead Americans—specifically, fallen soldiers.