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It’s been 20 years since I retired from the Air Force and 40 years since I first entered Cheyenne Mountain, America’s nuclear…
William J. Astore
William J. Astore is a retired lieutenant colonel (USAF) and professor of history. He is a senior fellow at the Eisenhower Media Network (EMN), an organization of critical veteran military and national security professionals. He is the author of American Militarism on Steroids: The Military-Industrial Complex, Unbounded, Uncontained, and Undemocratic.
My fellow Americans, my critical voice has finally been heard inside the Oval Office. No, not my voice against the $1.7 trillion this country…
As a retired U.S. Air Force officer, I firmly believe in civilian control of our military. This country should be a nation…
Forty years ago this month, I was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. I would be part of America’s…
I read the news today, oh boy. About a lucky man named Elon Musk. But he lost out on one thing: he didn’t…
During World War II, American leaders proudly proclaimed this country the “arsenal of democracy,” supplying weapons and related materiel to allies like…
When it comes to our nation’s military affairs, ignorance is not bliss. What’s remarkable then, given the permanent state of war in which…
As a late-stage baby boomer, a child of the 1960s, I grew up dreaming about America’s nuclear triad. You may remember that…
When I was in the U.S. military, I learned a saying (often wrongly attributed to the Greek philosopher Plato) that only the dead have…
In an age when American presidents routinely boast of having the world’s finest military, where nearly trillion-dollar war budgets are now a new version of routine, let…