The US is drawing down in Afghanistan. When the Soviets drew down in Afghanistan, this is what happened to their Kabul client: Embarrassing. To be avoided. So the Obama administration is doing all it can to ensure the continued survival and viability of the Ghani administration in Kabul. Even though the Taliban is feeling its…
The Russia-supported operation of the Syrian government forces has almost liberated the second largest city of Aleppo from militants. The victory prompted lame duck President Obama to make a desperate attempt to turn the tide of war. On December 8, President Barack Obama ordered a waiver of restrictions on military aid for foreign forces and others in…
The US is sending 200 additional military personnel to Syria to help drive Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) from Raqqa, US Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Saturday. Speaking in Bahrain at the Manama Dialogue conference on Middle East security, Carter said the 200, including special forces trainers, advisers, and explosive ordnance disposal teams, would…
It’s no wonder that numerous media outlets across the globe have been naming Barack Obama a warmonger, since has been at war longer than any president in United States history. He has been stuck in several armed conflicts throughout his two terms, as well as in scores of endless wars of attrition, which is rather…
In Niccolò Machiavelli’s 1517 «Discourses on Livy» the famous Italian historian and political philosopher argued that sometimes it is «a very wise thing to simulate madness». The «Madman» theory was indeed a consciously deployed facet of President Richard Nixon’s foreign policy. The Nixon administration carefully projected a deliberate image of President Nixon as a volatile, erratic, almost deranged hot…
More than two-thirds of common brands of extra-virgin olive oil found in American grocery stores aren’t what they claim to be, according to a University of California at Davis study. Instead, the oils were made from lower quality olives unfit to be labeled “extra virgin.” Worse, some were outright counterfeits, made from soy, hazelnut, and even…
