William Astore

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author's permission. Originally posted for Veterans Day in 2020. I come from a family of veterans.

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author's permission. Trump and the war hawks. Or war sluts . Or war pigs. I thought about all three of these.

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author's permission. I woke to this disconcerting story from CNN:

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author's permission. In my morning news feed from the New York Times came this article on Tulsi Gabbard:

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author's permission. What is the point of playing Russian roulette – with Russia?

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author's permission. In 2018, the Pentagon failed its first audit. In 2024, it failed its seventh audit in a row.

Like too many people, I sometimes make the mistake of talking about nuclear war, when it's really annihilation and genocide we're talking about.

Is the U.S. military becoming a paper tiger whose sole remaining power move is a mighty nuclear roar? It's a disturbing thought, given the extent to which U.S. military power is overstretched, recruiting shortfalls, and the usual waste, fraud, and abuse at the Pentagon, exacerbated by imperial megalomania.

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author's permission. Attacks on Iran are already being explored by the incoming Trump administration, which put me to mind of this article I wrote in 2016.

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author's permission. [Note to readers: Back in early September, Congressman Mike Turner penned an