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“When inveterate war hawk Mike Rogers suddenly declares, ‘The war in Iran needs to end—and end quickly,’ you know he’s losing—and losing badly,” former Republican congressman Justin Amash wrote Monday on X.
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ICYMI from @dan_m_ford: Could the Iran war boost Somaliland’s push for U.S. recognition?
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"There are so many cases in which [the striking forces] classified people attempting to make their way to the scene to rescue others as combatants," @AzmatZahra tells @MartinDiCaro. "I know a young man who wanted to reach his father and was held back. He watched his father burn to death because he would have been killed too."
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For Seoul, the risks of becoming more deeply entangled in a war whose geographical scope has expanded are high and very real, while the the upsides are uncertain at best, says @jyjamespark.
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DOD bans photography in part to prevent people from documenting who enters the building. But by using cameras reportedly riddled with security vulnerabilities, the Pentagon’s security force could be creating one of their own worst-case scenarios.
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Rogers’ sudden economic concern might have something to do with the fact that he is trailing his Democratic opponent Abdul El-Sayed — who has called Rogers “the worst of the neocon version” of Republicans — in recent polling, writes @jackhunter74.
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The lavish lifestyles of Pentagon contractor CEOs is laid bare in the new mockumentary “Lords of War,” co-produced by the @QuincyInst and @theintercept.
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On the sidelines of UNGA this week: Latin America FTO designations could lay the groundwork for potential U.S. military involvement in operations across the Western Hemisphere.
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A new book tries to answer the question: How did the debate over China become so intensely focused on strategic competition – and so resistant to arguments for restraint?
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"Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) is an ironic name, because it pushes out the tungsten pellets. Sometimes weapons are given intentionally misleading names, things designed to give you certainty, clarity, or comfort when using them."
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In 2004, the Roh Moo-hyun administration deployed troops to aid the U.S. war in Iraq, despite considerable public opposition. This time around, leadership in Seoul has made a different decision.
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The Pentagon’s rush to obtain security equipment from private contractors may pose a national security risk of its own, writes @brtthnz.
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.@solis_mullen : The shift from engagement to strategic competition was not simply a response to an objective change in China. It was also a change in the way American elites understood the US and its place in the world.
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Mike Rogers said that if the war ends, “energy costs will plummet…but Michigan families can’t afford to wait for that to happen. We need to do something now.”
Why didn't he vote to end the war when he had the chance? Why didn't Reps. Tiffany or Hinson? responsiblestatecraft.org/re…
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NEW @MartinDiCaro Q&A w/ @AzmatZahra on the new Precision Strike Missile. "When The Times’ visual investigations team identified it as a U.S. missile, the military tried to suggest Iran was responsible. That was not true. It was a deliberate lie."
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"If these antiwar protesters actually studied the hardware that's being deployed here they'd see just how progressive they and the companies that make them are" --Lt. Gen. 'Buddy' Bloodcock
from "Lords of War"
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Like our own country, South Koreans who are polled say they do not want to send their military into harm's way in the Persian Gulf. Is anyone surprised by this?
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The Pentagon has some of the most alert surveillance on its property in the world. But it felt the need to breach its own security with Flock cameras, writes @brtthnz
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Veteran war correspondent @AzmatZahra on 'precision strike missiles'
"Sometimes weapons are given intentionally misleading names, things designed to give you certainty, clarity, or comfort when using them." responsiblestatecraft.org/pr…
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By the mid-2010s, the confidence over US-China competition had given way to what McCourt describes as “an insecure, anxious, even fearful US hegemon facing a risen China that has become a near-peer challenger.”
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