It’s Time to Make Deep Cuts at the Pentagon
Retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, and historian William Astore considers a military in which the losses are all on the battlefield and the gains in Congress as well as in…
Who Is America’s Real God?
In God We Trust is on all our coins. But, which god?
Post-Afghanistan, Can We Finally Give Peace A Chance?
William Astore, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel and historian who runs the Bracing Views blog, takes a dim view (or is it a nuclear-bright view) of where this country…
Reclaiming American Idealism
Why we could use a leader like George McGovern again
Killing Democracy in America
This country’s 'forever wars' have become a kind of global pandemic all their own and, like a cytokine storm, are strangling the vital organs of democracy.