by Mark Angelides | Aug 15, 2021 | Articles, Biden Administration, International
Proclamations made by President Joe Biden on his plans to withdraw troops from troubled Afghanistan, once lauded by politicos and pundits, have returned to cast the belabored president as either a Neville Chamberlain-style figure or a leader lacking foresight. The...
by Dave Patterson | Jul 12, 2021 | Articles, Good Reads, Military Affairs, Opinion
We have seen this movie before. The scene is tarmac in Afghanistan with U.S. soldiers boarding chartered U.S. commercial airliners, military cargo aircraft, and troop-carrying helicopters in the dead of night beating feet to get out of Dodge. It appears to be an...
by Mark Angelides | Jul 9, 2021 | Articles, Good Reads, Military Affairs, Opinion
With news that the U.S. military has withdrawn from Bagram Air Base, the main base of operations in Afghanistan, President Joe Biden spoke to reporters to quell fears of a Taliban resurgence. He stated that, “We did not go to Afghanistan to nation-build....
by Dave Patterson | Apr 15, 2021 | Articles, International
With less than four months on the job, President Biden, realizing that there was public sentiment for him to remove U.S. troops out of Afghanistan after a 20-year bivouac, announced that he had set a date for withdrawal: September 11 of this year. The date, of course,...
by Graham J Noble | Sep 17, 2020 | Articles, Military Affairs, Opinion
Another disgraceful chapter in the decline of the establishment media continues to unfold as the U.S. military on September 14 revealed that it had been unable to corroborate the details of an alarming New York Times article from June. Although it continues to...