Helen of Troy was apparently pretty hot, so while I’m not condoning it, you can at least sympathize with King Menelaus for launching a war
Tag: War
War Scripted by Washington
The drama of attacks on oil and tanker assets in the Middle East can’t seem to get any more tense. The danger of war breaking
The Gulf Is Facing a Small-Scale War Scenario: No Obvious Solution
The attacks taking place in the Gulf and its waters against harbours, energy supply pipelines and oil tankers have assumed the proportions of a small scale war; however
Pence Goes to War: America Will Be Fighting Forever
On May 25th Vice President Mike Pence was the featured speaker at the United States Military Academy commencement. His speech was predictably an encomium celebrating
The American Cult of Bombing and Endless War
From Syria to Yemen in the Middle East, Libya to Somalia in Africa, Afghanistan to Pakistan in South Asia, an American aerial curtain has descended
Do Trump’s Hawks Speak for Trump?
For a president who won his office by denouncing the Middle East wars into which George W. Bush and Barack Obama plunged the nation, Donald
The Pentagon’s Spoiling for a Fight — But With China, Not Iran
The recent White House decision to speed the deployment of an aircraft carrier battle group and other military assets to the Persian Gulf has led
US Think Tank Goes Big-Game Hunting for Russia. Guess Who Gets Shot in the Foot?
In a report that views Russia through the same cracked lens as Washington’s old ideological foe, the Soviet Union, the RAND Corporation reveals that its
