Shadow operators at the front lines of America’s forever wars come back as damaged goods and often parlay the skills they learned overseas into criminal acts at home In his 2014 retirement speech, Admiral William McRaven, the former commander of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), called the era of...

“Revisionism is a healthy historiographical process, and no one, not even revisionists, should be exempt from it.” ~ John Lewis Gaddis As we near the 24th and 25th anniversaries of 9/11, the time is right for soberly re-examining the official narrative of the event that defines our century, not by...

The U.S. Claims To Be Embarked on a Global Crusade Against Authoritarianism While It Supports Authoritarian Regimes Like the One in Kenya In mid-April 2025, President Donald Trump offered support for the Multinational Security Support Mission in Haiti, which is led by the National Police Service of Kenya. Financed largely by...