He promises to veto the Defense Appropriations Authorization Act if it forces to Pentagon to change the names of bases and ships.
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Despite Pentagon Pushback, Trump Still Aims to Dominate the Streets
A revolt of the generals isn’t stopping the president’s effort to use the military to quell protests.
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Trump Should Have Been Impeached Over North Korea
His recklessness with Pyongyang created the most unacceptable threat to America.
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How Is Memorial Day the Right Time to Grant Amnesty to War Criminals?
It’s a day for honoring those who gave their lives in the line of duty, not for showing leniency to those who committed atrocities.
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Trump Listens to Putin But Not His Own Generals
The president promised to follow his generals’ advice for defeating ISIS, but he’s ignoring them to keep his promise to Putin.
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The Pentagon Thought Trump Was Announcing a War via Twitter
For nine minutes the military brass waited to see if we were going to attack North Korea.
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Casualties of War
Forty years ago this Tuesday, President Jimmy Carter nailed it going away in a nationally televised address. The energy crisis has not yet overwhelmed us, but it will if we do not act quickly. It’s a problem that we will not be able to solve in the next few years, and it’s likely to get […]
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Too Much Blood
A plane hit the tower. Must have been an accident, I figured; something just went catastrophically wrong. I remembered previous plane crashes–the jet that went into Boston Harbor when I was four years old, the USAir flight that crashed at the beginning of senior year, TWA Flight 800–and I figured this was no different. Just […]
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A Mil-Symp Takes on the Pentagon
Readers with less than fond memories of Edward Luttwak’s tendentious Commentary story of a couple of years back, “Why We Need More Waste, Fraud, and Mismanagement in the Pentagon,” will be surprised by this book, which is first-rate. Luttwak’s great strength is that he really knows what he’s talking about—by virtue of the quality of his sources and the […]
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Why DIVAD Wouldn’t Die
I feel strongly that if a president were to challenge the Pentagon to be better instead of bigger, more effective instead of more expensive, he would find a receptive audience both with the public—which, I think, senses how far out of control the Pentagon is—and within the military itself.
