Summary: A nation’s experts guide it into the darkness of the future, to success or failure. And the experts choose as guides reflect the nation’s values and wisdom. The grim events during the 11 years since 9-11 allow an accurate evaluation of America. Read this, then make your own forecast of our future. “It is …
Our geopolitical experts, like Max Boot, lead America into the dark Read More »
Summary:  One oddity of our time is the news. Not the predominance of pro-war advocacy, or its increasingly desperate and specious nature, but how seldom anyone remarks upon these things. Today Max Boot provides another example. A ludicrous example. Here we examine “Impact of past defense cuts should warn of risks“, op-ed in the Washington Post by …
Every day brings new pro-war propaganda for our amusement and despair Read More »
Summary: Advocates for the Af-Pak war often make dubious statements about the past, attempting to rekindle America’s enthusiasm for a war in which we have no meaningful stake. Today Max Boot provides another example. This is the first of series about the history of counterinsurgency. The other chapters: (2) A major discovery! It could change the …
Excerpt from “Memo to Ross Douthat“, Daniel Nexon, posted at Duck of Minerva, 13 August 2008. Douthat comments on Max Boot’s call for the US to, if necessary, turn Georgia into the next Afghanistan (circa 1984): Now these arguments have a certain surface plausibility, but I would find them much more convincing if Boot were …
Best insight yet about America and the Georgia-Russia fighting Read More »
America relies on a small number of brave men — men brave enough to speak from their hearts about the hubris ruling America’s soul in the early 21st century. Such men are scarce today. Instead we have these… We need not apologize for these successes. History will record that America’s strategy for fighting terrorism was a good …
General Franks and Max Boot provide a valuable insight for all Americans Read More »
