A future without war and all its awfulness is the best way to honor our troops, even as we cherish the memory of the heroes who died.
Author: William Astore
William Astore, a retired lieutenant colonel (USAF) and professor of history, is a TomDispatch regular and a senior fellow at the Eisenhower Media Network (EMN), an organization of critical veteran military and national security professionals. His personal blog is Bracing Views.
A Road to Peace or the Highway to Hell
In 1953, Eisenhower warned that Cold War competition would lead to a world dominated by wars and weaponry that couldn’t be reined in.
Peace Is Not Our Profession
It seems that we may be on the verge of returning to a nightmarish past, where we lived in fear of a nuclear war that would kill us all.
One Peculiar Form of American Madness
America is touched by a peculiar form of collective madness that sees military action as creative, not destructive, desirable, not deplorable.
How Can We Take On the Military-Industrial Complex?
Stop trying to dominate the world. Stop claiming that democracy can be spread by bullets and bombs.
The Pentagon – A Pentagod of Wrath
America’s abyss of weapons and warmaking: The deity America believes in is the five-sided one headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.