Why John Brennan Doesn’t Deserve a Security Clearance
Ex-CIA director Brennan has a history of lies. Now he is a hero to the Left, penalized by Trump revoking his security clearance. Here’s the rest of the story.
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Lind: PC destroys the career of a promising USMC officer
William Lind describes how political correctness scores again, destroying one of the Marine’s most promising officers.
William Lind looks at our generals, sees “rank incompetence”.
Summary: Concluding this series about our senior military leaders we have a typically brilliant and brutal analysis by William Lind. This would have been shocking news in 2000; a decade of failed wars show it to be the simple truth. We can do better, but the Pentagon will not reform without pressure from us. Rightly …
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Return of the COIN-istas (the zombies of military theory)
Summary: John Quiggin writes about zombie economics, theories false but too politically useful to die. COIN is an example of zombie military theory. In the 60 years since Mao brought 4GW to maturity, foreign armies of every type have employed it against local insurgents, with an almost uniform record of failure. America’s COIN-istas — brilliant, …
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“War With Iran Might Be Closer Than You Think”
Philip Giraldi warns of an immanent strike by the US at Iran, in a post on 9 May 2008 at The American Conservative blog. For your convenience, it is printed in full below — along with his somewhat similar warning dated 1 August 2005, from The American Conservative magazine. Such warnings have circulated for several …