“A Review of “The American War in Afghanistan,” Carter Malkasian, Foreign Affairs In 2008, I interviewed the United Kingdom’s then outgoing military commander in Afghanistan, Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, in a…

Are Former Professors As National Leaders More Prone To Black Swan Events That Overthrow Their Governments?  Probably not, but recent events in Afghanistan suggest an example.  This would be the…

…projections were overly optimistic. 2) The 2001 recession. 3) The 2001 and 2003 Bush Tax Cuts. 4) 9/11, Homeland Security Spending and the War in Afghanistan 5) The War in…

…anger and depression, substance abuse, suicidal ideation, and past exposure to military sexual trauma. About 18 percent of returning Afghanistan and Iraq vets have been diagnosed with PTSD. The importance…

…returning Afghanistan and Iraq vets have been diagnosed with PTSD. The importance of the VA’s specialized, high-quality care for nine million patients is well documented in Invisible Storm: A Soldier’s Memoir…

…It is worth comparing this failure to the problems associated with Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. Biden managed to get almost 130,000 people out of Afghanistan as the regime we had…

…contract to guard its various outposts in Afghanistan “and elsewhere”… … Worse yet, the CIA wasn’t alone, as the State Department just agreed to shell out $120,123,293 in taxpayer dough…

…program of computer-generated charts, graphs and bullet points, has made it a running joke in the Pentagon and in Iraq and Afghanistan. “PowerPoint makes us stupid,” Gen. James N. Mattis…

…natural gas, other than the odd city bus or garbage truck in random municipalities? The answer is a simple but unpleasant one. See, we in the US would label the…

…considered almost risk-free because if the borrowers default, Fannie or Freddie will pay off the loans (assuming Fannie and Freddie remain solvent). Non-conforming loans go into pools known as private-label…