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The New Historical Link between Vietnam and Iraq

by Matt Jacobs

Will future historians speak of the "Iraq Syndrome"?

Eliminating Nuclear Weapons is Just as Important as Eliminating Chemical Weapons

by Lawrence S. Wittner

Syria should be a wake-up call for all nations: weapons of mass destruction are dangerous by their very nature.

The Hill to the Rescue on Syria?

by Andrew Bacevich

Don't hold your breath.

Remember the Maine?

by Jeremy Kuzmarov

History provides reasons to be skeptical of the administration's chemical weapons claim in Syria.

The Real Goal of Obama's Syria Policy

by James L. Gelvin

A limited bombing campaign won't bring down Assad, but that's not the point -- it's to convince the government that the military situation is stalemated.

The Case for Intervention in Syria

by Robert Brent Toplin

Chemical weapons must be off-limits in war.

The U.S. is Ignoring Hard-Learned Lessons in the Middle East

by Scot Faulkner

Learning the right lessons from Ronald Reagan on how to prepare for post-dictatorship societies.

Roosevelt Museum Revitalized

by Alexander Heffner

The Long Arm of the October War

by Kenneth Weisbrode

The 1973 War wasn't just a turning point in Middle East affairs -- it was also a critical battlefield of the Cold War.

Should America Really Be the Global Policeman?

by Ray Smock

Klaatu Barack nikto.

The Syrian Problem -- and an International Solution

by Lawrence S. Wittner

Look to the United Nations. It's the legal thing to do.

A History of the World’s First Drone War

by Brian Glyn Williams

Towards an effort to historicize a new kind of war.

Samantha Power: Liberal War Hawk and Second Rate Scholar

by Jeremy Kuzmarov

Is the new UN ambassador's scholarship honest about the American relationship with mass killings?

No Good Options for Obama in Syria

by Michael H. Creswell

Inaction means Assad remains in power and Obama looking weak, but the president faces hurdles to action both at the UN and in Congress.

Clinging to Mass Violence

by Lawrence S. Wittner

Resorting to violence is a long-term, deeply-ingrained habit in human history, and is not easily discarded.

Why Egypt Fell Apart

by Juan Cole

Resorting to violence is a long-term, deeply-ingrained habit in human history, and is not easily discarded.

Obama's Lost War on Drugs

by Jeremy Kuzmarov

Rather than relying on our hopeless forty-fourth president and an even more hopeless Republican-controlled Congress, citizen groups need to mobilize together to oppose the waste of their hard earned taxpayer dollars in the War on Drugs. 

Trayvon Martin and Edward Snowden

by Vicente L. Rafael

Could we say that within the particular imperial and racial nexus we find ourselves in, that Snowden, despite his obvious differences from Trayvon, might also share his fate?

Edward Snowden vs. Robert Seldon Lady

by Tom Engelhardt

This, then, is our world: a single megapower has, since September 2001, been in a financing and construction frenzy to create the first global surveillance state; its torturers run free; its kidnappers serve time at liberty in this country and are rescued if they venture abroad; and its whistleblowers -- those who would let the rest of us know what “our” government is doing in our name -- are pilloried.

The U.S. Military’s Limited Critique of Itself Ensures Future Disasters

by William J. Astore

Is it possible that the best way to win future wars is to avoid them altogether?  As simple as that question is, you will rarely hear it asked in the halls of power in Washington.