Pentagon

Antiwar.com | US troop presence remains in roughly the same part of Africa.

Seeking prestige and power within the military, CENTCOM chief Gen. Kenneth McKenzie has deployed a series of bureaucratic and PR moves to drive the latest episode in US-Iran tensions. During the final two months of the Trump administration, a series of provocative U.S. military moves in the Middle East stirred fears that a war against Iran was being hatched. The atmosphere of crisis was not the result of any threat posed by Tehran, but rather the product of a campaign […]

The statement by the Joint Chiefs of Staff this week shows there are real concerns about Trump’s coup ambitions being taken to the ultimate level.

With the likes of Miller and other far-rightists in charge at the Pentagon, there is no guarantee on whose side the military will be, Finian Cunningham writes.

As a senator, Biden voted for that 2001 AUMF, the 2002 AUMF, and then seconded a president who expanded America’s overseas interventions — and nothing in his personal history suggests that he will take the bold actions necessary to follow through on putting an end to America’s overseas conflicts.

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator Today marks the first anniversary of the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, who died January 3, 2020, at the Baghdad airport when his car was attacked by a US drone, on orders of President Donald Trump.  Iran has vowed revenge for the death of the Iranian major general of the […]

Dr Steve Turley comments here on a Newsweek piece from last week noting that certain unnamed officials in the Pentagon are cooking up contingency plans to act in case President Trump should try imposing martial law to deal with the fraudulent 2020 elections. Yes. Fraudulent. It is unclear whether or not the President actually intends to do […]

Now, if you prioritize Vietnam and Iraq over the war against Nazi Germany, you’ll come face-to-face with a very different set of lessons. Here are four that the Biden administration might do well to contemplate.

Brian Berletic | This latest development is important in ushering in multipolarism - where the cost of conflict is higher than the cost of cooperation. 

John Pilger | While the world is still enthralled with the drama of the pandemic, another more lethal spectre still looms large.