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It Can’t Happen Here.

…Korean War began. It envisioned putting suspect Americans in military prisons. Hoover wanted President Harry S. Truman to proclaim the mass arrests necessary to “protect the country against treason, espionage…

Malingering or science? Part 1

…or disease contracted in line of duty, in the active military, naval, or air service, during a period of war, the United States will pay to any veteran thus disabled…

Just a business expense and opprtunity cost

…all military healthcare. On June 1, he went to work for a Wisconsin-based private contractor named Logistics Health Inc., which hired him to serve on its board of directors and…

Anbar and Pakistan

…operating without much government interference, were able to field large military formations in their attacks on Sunni targets. Sunni neighborhoods needed a permanent militia to defend them against attacks. US…

Four more soldiers

…read. (Sigh) Update 2: Could any of the objecting servicemen be staunch Republicans, but as military men think the policies are wrong, and wrong enough to speak out? Or the…

Strategic interest and defining victory

…“Is our military there for the sake of oil?” I have been struck by the use of the word “victory” by the right wing, especially by its propaganda arm, Freedom’s…

Where is Gwadar? In Balochistan, where else?

…Association for Asian Research elaborates on the issue of the port and how military presence of some kind is a part of expansion. Who else is moving into the area?…

Psychologists and torture

…extreme interrogation techniques that have been used recently by U.S. military forces and intelligence agencies. The association singled out waterboarding, exploiting detainees’ phobias and exposure to extreme temperatures. But the…