Tag: Foreign Policy & Military & War

John Derbyshire is doing his usual denial shuck and jive routine – this time with regard to torture and mistreatment of prisoners of war. But then, as long-time readers also […]

Mortgaging the Future of Our Armed Forces by Dr. Ivan Eland When private companies cook the books, the perpetrators are indicted for fraud and thrown in jail. When politicians in […]

Greater Government Spending Has Not Enhanced National Security  by Dr. Ivan Eland Since the September 11 attacks, real (inflation-adjusted) spending on defense has increased 23 percent, even when the whopping […]

Harry Browne on Why We Must Stay in Iraq (or Not): Let me see if I have this right. Hundreds — if not thousands — more Americans will have to […]

The Iraq War—A Catastrophic Success by Robert Higgs “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” —Matthew 6:21 On the campaign trail last October, Vice President Dick […]

Butler Shaffer, writing for LewRockwell.com, on The Exploitation of Soldiers: It has been encouraging to observe, in recent months, the emergence of an apparent awareness among many American soldiers of […]

Michael McDonough of The Associated Press on Attack on U.S. Base in Iraq Kills 22: Rockets and mortar rounds struck a U.S. base in the northern city of Mosul on […]

Kill Missile Defense Now by Dr. Ivan Eland The most recent among many testing glitches of the Bush administration missile defense program should remind us that this exorbitant and heavily […]

Brad Knickerbocker, staff writer for The Christian Science Monitor , on The pattern of discontent in US ranks: A key issue for war planners is whether any of this adversely […]

Next Target: Iran?  by Dr. Ivan Eland Will the newly energized President Bush interpret his narrow election win as public approval for his spaghetti Western–style shoot-’em-up foreign policy? Many neo-conservatives […]