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Is America in Retreat before a more threatening world?
Summary: After 2 failed invasions and occupations, as we gear up to repeat the same tactics in another round of interventions, it’s time for our hawks to excite us with stories about our mad...
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Martin van Creveld: Do the cycles of history turn our armies into pussycats?
Summary: In his third post about the real revolution in military affairs, the evolution of western armies into pussycats, Martin van Creveld looks for explanations in the cycles of history....
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Advice from Kipling & Orwell about America’s empire. Let’s listen.
Summary: Here’s a powerful poem by Rudyard Kipling. It’s about Britain, but also about us. The past provides a mirror in which we can see ourselves, valuable given the clouded vision that afflicts us....
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Words important for all Americans to hear, from Tom Engelhardt
Tweet Most commencement speeches are a bore. Few were as good as this one written for the students of the virtual correspondence school known as TomDispatch. “Missing Word, Missing World“, By Tom...
View ArticleAre we fools? Yes, if we repeat the “who lost China” madness.
Tweet America’s combination of hubris and paranoia produces many strange things — which we baffle our descendents — but the repeating debates in the form of “who lost China” must take the booby-prize....
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“Welcome to 2025 – American Preeminence Is Disappearing Fifteen Years Early”...
Tweet Summary: Today’s feature is a counterpoint to our imperial cheerleaders, such as Niall Ferguson and the neocons. At the end are links to six military and intelligence agencies visions of the...
View ArticleSubjugation of women anywhere threatens US national security!
Tweet Summary: For many Americans, being the world’s superpower means that everybody’s business is our business — in self-defense. Which is why Empires expand and die. Telling other people how to...
View ArticleUltimately Primacy Is Its Own Justification (Imperial rule #12)
Tweet Summary: A guest post by Bernard Finel provides a deeper explanation for our love of foreign wars, wars often with only tenuous connections to our national interest. This piece from David Axe...
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Advice from one of the British Empire’s greatest Foreign Ministers
Tweet Summary: As our mad, expensive but profitless empire weighs us down, we can learn from the policies of the greatest western empire since Rome. One of its leaders explains the key aspects of...
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The American Empire needs your money – and more of it!
Tweet Summary: Cheerleaders for empire fill the news media, opponents are usually suppressed. A close look at some imperial propaganda illustrates why we have put America on the skids. ID 90922781 ©...
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