Tagged: Foreign Policy & Military & War

U.S. Military Resorting To Collective Punishment Inter Press Service The U.S. military is resorting to collective punishment tactics in Iraq similar to those used by Israeli troops in the occupied territories of Palestine, residents...

Mr. Jacob G. Hornberger, founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation, on Let's Look within Ourselves for Iraq's WMD: …examination must include a focus on the truthful reason for invading Iraq —...

Michael Gaddy, writing for LewRockwell.com, on Is There Another 'Tet' in Our Future? Our enemy is much more cognizant of our history than are our leaders. A young intelligence officer, now home from Iraq,...

Mark Thompson of Time Magazine on Where Are the New Recruits? Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld–who has long opposed a permanent hike in the Army's 500,000-strong active-duty force–made himself scarce as these troubling indicators surfaced....

From Scott Kohlhaas of draftresistance.org:

Hip Hop Republicans has posted an interesting "explanation" for Gulf War II. An excerpt: Our President is doing what is right. We, as a free nation, must understand that this war is (being fought...

BBC News on US wounded in Iraq reaches 10,000: The Pentagon says that more than 10,000 US military personnel have been wounded in Iraq since the conflict began in March 2003. Newly published figures...

Tom Bowman of The Baltimore Sun on In a memo to Army brass, its leader says overseas demands, dysfunctional policies pose a 'grave danger': Lt. Gen. James R. "Ron" Helmly, the chief of the...

Jeffrey A. Tucker, writing for LewRockwell.com, on The Myth of the Voluntary Military: When you see the pictures of American troops fighting their way through sand storms, in a strange land with strange people,...