Don’t Knock Yourself Out: How America Can Turn the Tables on China by Giving Up the Fight for Command of the Seas - War on the Rocks

by Chipit to /s/WorldPolitics from (warontherocks.com)

Al-Qaeda Is Being Hollowed to Its Core - War on the Rocks

by Chipit to /s/WorldNews from (warontherocks.com)

Bureaucratizing to Fight Extremism in the Military - War on the Rocks. Pentagon begins figuring out how to get rid of patriots in the ranks and replace them with conformists.

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The Need to Inoculate Military Servicemembers Against Information Threats: The Case For Digital Literacy Training for the Force - War on the Rocks. In other words, they're worried that the troops are seeing their lies and thinking for themselves.

by Chipit to /s/politics from (warontherocks.com)

The ‘Hybrid Armed Actors’ Paradox: A Necessary Compromise? - War on the Rocks. Deep state inventing new enemies to justify more wars and more spending.

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Profiteers, Vultures, and the Defeat of the UN Embargo on Libya. There is a UN embargo prohibiting arms shipments to Libya, but it is an abject failure. Its prohibitions have been openly flouted by states who are in good standing of the “international community” and the UN Security Council itself.

by Chipit to /s/WorldPolitics from (warontherocks.com)

Will the Military Become Just Another Politicized Institution? - War on the Rocks. “What do your colleagues think of the president?” It’s a question I hear a lot, not only from civilian friends in the United States, but on a regular basis from allied officers at the German General Staff College.

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Defund CENTCOM. After decades of spending trillions of dollars on fruitless wars, Americans are getting frustrated with the Middle East. The withdrawal advocates are right. The foggy theories underpinning U.S. strategy in the region are wrong.

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Penny-Wise, Pound-Foolish: The Iranian Coup of 1953. Rather than meeting an imminent threat, the coup was a preventive maneuver. Iran's President was anti-communist and didn't aid Moscow. The US hoped Mosaddeq would agree to an oil settlement that served the interests of UK and U.S. oil companies.

by Chipit to /s/WorldPolitics from (warontherocks.com)

The Secret to the Northern Mozambique Insurgency’s Success. This has been a banner year for al-Shabaab operating in northern Mozambique. Between January and September, the insurgent group launched an estimated 357 attacks, which is double the attacks it conducted during the same period last year.

by Chipit to /s/WorldPolitics from (warontherocks.com)

What Are America’s Sanctions on Syria Good For? The chances of success for Adesnik’s policy “hypothesis” seem near zero. Meanwhile, the civilian harm done by U.S. sanctions is certain. Put bluntly: Immiserating Syria while performatively and moralistically “trying” like this is psychopathic.

by Chipit to /s/WorldPolitics from (warontherocks.com)

Key Islamic State propagandists removed from the battlefield via missile strike, critical documents and files missing from jihadist web servers, and ISIS leaders fighting with each other over issues of orthodoxy: These are just several of the tangible results from U.S. Cyber Command’s operations.

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The Hell of Good Intentions: America’s Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy. Both Trump and Walt directed much of the blame for this mess at the same source — a sprawling, self-interested, and often clueless foreign policy clique, otherwise known in some circles as the blob.

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Ending United States Military Operations in Somalia - War on the Rocks. Okay, show of hands: who knew that the US has been at war with al-Shabaab for well over a decade with no victory in sight?

by Chipit to /s/WorldPolitics from (warontherocks.com)

The Color of Diplomacy: A U.S. Diplomat on Race and the Foreign Service. State Department employee either can't or won't connect the dots to the fact that State is disproportionately Ivy League and Jewish.

by Chipit to /s/WorldPolitics from (warontherocks.com)

The influence of philately on foreign affairs

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Professor offers an observation about the tragic ways of international life in an illiberal world, and a warning against hubristic delusion and the imprudent misuse of power. His book is called The False Promise of Liberal Order: Nostalgia, Delusion and the Rise of Trump.

by Chipit to /s/Geopolitics from (warontherocks.com)

As the globalist delegitimization campaign towards the American people takes effect, globalists start worrying this is going to affect their power to meddle in other countries.

by Chipit to /s/OpinionPieces from (warontherocks.com)

China’s Palace Diplomacy in Africa. China is winning over African leaders by building them grand new workplaces, for free.

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"Is the United States Losing the African Space Race?" This is what out-of-control corporate controlled government gets you, insanity like this.

by Chipit to /s/space from (warontherocks.com)

Stay Out of the Regime Change Business. A good review of the US government's record of overthrowing foreign governments - it stinks and we should quit doing it.

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Globalist logic: "Pulling Troops Out of Africa Could Mean Another Endless War". They know we're sick of their wars and have resorted to using our metaphors to try to make their weak arguments.

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Tami Davis Biddle Discusses Coercion Theory: A Basic Introduction for Practitioners - War on the Rocks

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Globalist Senator Chris Murphy angry at Trump, wants WHO funding back. When you reward a behavior, you get more of it. We do not reward failure.

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The Virus Of Disinformation: Echoes Of Past Bioweapons Accusations In Today’s Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories

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Both parties solidly against getting out of Africa. Apparently, "Beijing’s activities in Africa might actually threaten American security and prosperity." What a load of bullshit. And the Pentagon is broke and can't afford troops, which is another load of bullshit.

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Start the Negotiations, End the Afghan War Now

by Chipit to /s/Antiwar from (warontherocks.com)

Poor Leadership During Times of Disease: Malta and the Plague of 1813

by AliceofX to /s/history from (warontherocks.com)

Asking the Right Questions about the Past and Future of World Order - an essay

by Chipit to /s/WorldPolitics from (warontherocks.com)

The conventional wisdom on china’s island bases is dangerously wrong. The island facilities are considerably larger than many observers seem to realize. Disabling the airstrips would be an even taller order.

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