"Islamophobic"

Islamophobic? Or are there merely in error regarding the threat posed by Muslim militants? Everythingi needs to be labelled...

CACI, which has been on the ground as lucrative defense contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan from the beginning, has undisclosed ties with neocon, Islamophobic think tanks bent on keeping us in those wars. @EliClifton: https://t.co/YXpcySZ2m9

— Responsible Statecraft (@RStatecraft) August 27, 2021

An Ad for the MIC?

Sig Sauer M17: Best Choice of the U.S. Military https://t.co/pZqXzEkikX via @YouTube

— SIG SAUER (@sigsauerinc) July 8, 2021

Who Is Running Joe Biden?

The president is going full speed ahead on beefing up the triad and expensive modernization — despite cries from his own party. @markperrydc:https://t.co/KnnoaRZzr7

— Responsible Statecraft (@RStatecraft) June 2, 2021

Serving the Empire

Episode 27 is out! Listen to the authors of 2034, @stavridisj and @elliotackerman, discuss the role of IW and SOF in a potential conflict with China!@1st_SF_Command @NATO_SOF @OneCarlyle @CFR_org @AllBeretsMatter @MARSOCofficial https://t.co/tM8coNXnxq

— Irregular Warfare Initiative (@IrregWarfare) May 26, 2021

New Binoculars?

Live Fire with the US Army’s New Enhanced Night Vision Goggle-Binoculars https://t.co/0vvwaIZ43g

— Soldier Systems (@soldiersystems) April 28, 2021

"Not an Ad."

Yes it is.

SIG SAUER M17: 25,000 Rounds Later https://t.co/HuTDMi4xwy via @The Truth About Guns

— SIG SAUER (@sigsauerinc) March 15, 2021

Perfumed Prince Naturally Turns Out to Be a Swamp Thing

who spouts the party line.

"I believe in teaching the good, the bad, the ugly — and our country was born with a birth-defect," retired Marine Corps Gen. Jim Mattis said. https://t.co/jrLcTF6sXD

— SOFREP (@sofrepofficial) January 31, 2021

Things the Manchurian Candidate Won't Do

In a message released on Thursday, the Melkite archbishop of war-torn Aleppo in Syria is calling on the international community to lift the sanctions imposed on the country, arguing that they do nothing but make life “a little bit more painful” every day.https://t.co/u8MGCfB1Pu

— Crux (@Crux) January 28, 2021

American militarism: the violence born out of wars that demand men and women sacrifice for a lie come home eventually, somehow.

A different take:https://t.co/zQFOIy042F pic.twitter.com/SoGiCocJXm

— Responsible Statecraft (@RStatecraft) January 28, 2021

NEW @shifrinson for Quincy on NATO reset: 1) no more expansion 2)cutting US troop commitments 3)re-engaging Russia and 4) be-balancing US-transatlantic alliances.
Boom.https://t.co/jxpF8FDVrm @CatoFP@EmmaMAshford @capreble @SWGoldman @BH_Friedman @monicaduffytoft @JohnAllenGay

— Responsible Statecraft (@RStatecraft) January 28, 2021

The MIC is not Racist!

Austin has pledged to recuse himself of “all military activity involving Raytheon Technologies,” his former employer. This apparently appeased US Senators, despite the fact that Raytheon supplies the DoD with Tomahawk missiles. Will Austin never be involved in a Tomahawk launch?

— Aren R. LeBrun (@proustmalone) January 23, 2021

More on the Military Failures of the American Empire

A US general inadvertently explains why we lose to poorly armed and lightly trained insurgents: delusional goals plus an inability to learn. A lethal combo. @KelleyBVlahos https://t.co/RJVFgk2Gzz

— Fabius Maximus (Ed.) (@FabiusMaximus01) December 10, 2020

Associated with Princeton and Making PC Choices for Guests

Might as well advertise itself as "Swamp Thing."

Just finished editing Ep13, a conversation with GEN(R) David Petraeus on Islamic extremism, technology and small footprint military interventions, and the recently released Irregular Warfare Annex to the NDS. Will release Friday, relevant pre-read:https://t.co/iV3wWQa3Ja

— Irregular Warfare Podcast (@IrregWarfare) November 4, 2020

A Vision for 2021 and Beyond

How will @USArmy Special Forces react to #greatpower conflict? To what extent must their mission change? @JackMurphyRGR analyzes the recent Army Special Operations Forces (ARSOF) document titled "A Vision for 2021 and Beyond." https://t.co/waMMLo41Py

— Irregular Warfare Podcast (@IrregWarfare) October 19, 2020

Is He Aligned with the Neocons?

Brig. Gen. Howard discusses the new U.S. national security strategy of great power competition and talks about ways USSOCOM can contribute to this strategy in competition with China and Russia in the latest Joint Special Operations University interview.https://t.co/OVnvtTsAC1

— USSOCOM (@USSOCOM) October 20, 2020

Unmanned War Machines

Another MIC grift. Who's working on Skynet?

NEW @mklare1 : Sec Def Esper wants to replace Navy ships with untested, unmanned ones, a recipe for disaster. https://t.co/IxTwMONSZk@Dalzell60 @markperrydc

— Responsible Statecraft (@RStatecraft) October 12, 2020

Now You Know Who's Funding SpaceX

US Plan: Weapons Anywhere on Earth in One Hour
The Pentagon is teaming up with #SpaceX to develop 7,500 mph rocket to deliver military equipment https://t.co/9NE1yuYAah pic.twitter.com/O1TMPqVEfc

— Antiwar.com (@Antiwarcom) October 10, 2020

Stop if You've Heard This Before

The future of U.S. Special Operations will rely less on brawny door-kickers and increasingly on technologists armed with software. https://t.co/0NxnQSUlDq

— SOFREP (@sofrepofficial) October 8, 2020

The Limitations of Andrew Bacevich

Bacevich may be good on what the US should be doing with respect to its foreign policy (and reining in the MIC), but he seems to be clueless about the (D)s and the (R)s. Trump may be unsatisfactory for Bacevich, but the truth is probably that Trump can do very little to bring about the goals Bacevich wants. The (R)s will never adopt Bacevich's platform, and even if the (D)s might vocally talk about defunding the MIC, they'll never do it either.

Andrew Bacevich: Republicans can make good use of a Biden presidency to detoxify, purging themselves of the poisons ingested when they drank deeply of the polluted waters of Trumpism. https://t.co/nVnEzLOBGm

— The American Conservative (@amconmag) October 6, 2020

Empire Is as Ampire Does

Embedded in the seemingly benign phrase “American global leadership” is a grand strategy of militarized primacy, writes Andrew Bacevich. The turmoil in Afghanistan and Iraq prove that its results have been anything but benign.https://t.co/p0IBqb6LIL

— Foreign Affairs (@ForeignAffairs) September 20, 2020

Right into the MIC?

Gotta Help Out the MIC

It's impressively shameless that the Senate GOP is trying to use "coronavirus relief" to grab $30 billion for a potpourri of mostly not coronavirus-related Pentagon items, on top of the $740 billion it already gets, even as real pandemic relief spending breaks the bank. https://t.co/zYSvrMJovZ

— Ben Friedman (@BH_Friedman) July 28, 2020