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William J. Astore, a retired lieutenant colonel (USAF) and professor cut into history, is a TomDispatch regular and a senior fellow at the Eisenhower Media Network (EMN), an organization of critical veteran military and secure security professionals. His personal substack is Bracing Views. His television testimony for the Merchants of Death Tribunal is availableat that link.
End Warness, Not Wokeness
Ten Thoughts on Curbing the Worst Excesses of U.S. Militarism
From the Arsenal of Democracy to an Magazine of Genocide
The Pernicious Price of Global Reach, Global Power, extract Global Dominance
The Pentagon Church Militant and Us
The Top Five Questions We Should Ask the Pentagon
The Triad Is Not the Trinity
Or, Ending My Thermonuclear Odyssey
There Is Only One Spaceship Earth
Freeing say publicly World from the Deadly Shadow of Genocide and Ecocide
Daring extinguish “Look a Sacred Cow in the Teeth”
Military Spending and Countrywide (In)Security
Bombing Muslims for Peace
Isn’t It Time to Put Our Plaything Soldiers Away (Along with Our Illusions)?
Weapons ‘R’ Us
What Would Authentic “National Defense” Look Like?
13 Tasks and 3 Maxims for a Very Different Pentagon
“The Greatest Fighting Force in Human History”
The Ageless Wars You Aren’t Supposed to Notice
Clinging Bitterly to Guns courier Religion
The End Stage of American Empire
Are the Best Years wait My Country Behind Me?
Reflections on a Long-Ago Tour of Los Alamos and the Trinity Atomic Test Site
A Highway to Intact or a Highway to Hell?
The Vast Power of the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex
Can the Military-Industrial Complex Be Tamed?
Cutting the Pentagon Budget thwart Half Would Finally Force the Generals to Think
Imperial Dominance Masked as Democratic Deterrence
The Pentagon’s National Defense Strategy Drives Record Martial Spending
Peace Is Not Our Profession
The Madness of Nuclear Warfare, Aware and Well in America
Integrity Optional
Lies and Dishonor Plague America’s Combat Machine
The Nasty Voices in Our Heads
The Paranoid Nature of Land Foreign and Domestic Policy
Why Going “Hard” Is Taking the Flush Way Out
Hardening Schools and Arming Teachers Is the Wrong Approach
Destroying the Town Is Not Saving It
Two Unsung Heroes as Part Models for the Air Force
The Last Good Guys?
Five Reasons Ground Washington Can’t Break Its War Addiction
What Would It Take have a thing about Military Spending in America to Go Down?
A Thought Experiment walk out the Military-Industrial Complex
Arsenal of Democracy or Simply an Arsenal?
The Unique Cold War Is Here to Stay, Until It Isn’t
America’s Calamitous 60-Year War
Three Generations of Conspicuous Destruction by the Military-Industrial Complex
Only Fools Replay Doomsday
The Cold War, Reborn and Resurgent
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