Major Danny Sjursen

Major Danny Sjursen is a U.S. Army strategist and former history instructor at West Point. He served tours with reconnaissance units in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has written a memoir and critical analysis of the Iraq War, Ghost Riders of Baghdad: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Myth of the Surge. He lives with his wife and four sons in Lawrence, Kansas. Follow him on Twitter at @SkepticalVet.

2018 год: год вечной войны в обзоре по версии «Взрослые в комнате»

Назовите это глубоким государством, болотом или как угодно, но суть: в течение первых двух лет правления Трампа до сих пор не было никакого серьезного переосмысления американской внешней и военной политики, во всяком случае, с точки зрения миролюбия ,

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Leave it to liberals to pin their hopes on the oddest things. In particular, they seemed to find post-Trump solace in the strange combination of the two-year-old Mueller investigation and the good judgment of certain Trump appointees, the proverbial “adults in the room.” Remember that crew? It once included Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, the

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Blowback: Ветеран отставной армии жалуется на политику США на Ближнем Востоке

Жалобы выходят из строя, разворачиваются сюжеты, а новые террористические наборы получают новобранцев из-за самого присутствия вооруженных сил США, его воздушной силы и беспилотной силы ЦРУ в «войне», которая вот-вот вступит в свой 18-й год.

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Afghanistan Insider Attacks

On September 3rd, a U.S Army sergeant major was killed by two Afghan police officers - the very people his unit, the new Security Force Assistance Brigade, was there to train. It was the second fatal “insider attack,” as such incidents are regularly called, this year and the 102nd since the start of the Afghan War 17 long years ago. Such attacks

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What If We Never Fell for Al-Qaeda’s Trap & Avoided the ‘War on Terror’?

“Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.”
— Thucydides

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U.S. Marines pay their final respects at a memorial service for 1st Marine Division Combat Photographer Cpl. William Salazar, 26, of Las Vegas, NV, at Camp Blue Diamond, on the outskirts of Ramadi, Iraq, Monday, Oct. 18, 2004. (AP/Jim MacMillan)

You’ve heard the platitude that hindsight is 20/20. It’s true enough and, though I’ve been a regular skeptic about what policymakers used to call the Global War on Terror, it’s always easier to poke holes in the past than to say what you would have done. My conservative father was the first to ask me what exactly I would have suggested on September

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Will Congress Ever Be Brave Enough To End War Authorization?

If more than 70 years of recent history is any indication, Congress simply can’t be counted on when it comes time to stand, be heard, and vote on American wars.

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От Major Danny Sjursen
Servicemen of the "Fighting Eagles" 1st Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, walk by tanks that arrived via train to the US base in Mihail Kogalniceanu, eastern Romania, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017. (AP/Andreea Alexandru)

On September 1, 1970, soon after President Nixon expanded the Vietnam War by invading neighboring Cambodia, Democratic Senator George McGovern, a decorated World War II veteran and future presidential candidate, took to the floor of the Senate and said, “Every Senator [here] is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early

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