It's not like the military is cash-starved from Congress. But it looks a lot like it's going to make money off Venezuelan oil ...

WE AREN'T TALKING ABOUT THE LATEST WAR in Yemen, except we kind of are. Six years ago, as the U.S.-backed Saudi/Emirati war on the Houthis bogged down, Aram Rostom of Buzzfeed revealed that one of the ...

ON SUNDAY, a U.S. warplane, probably a drone, struck a target 50 miles from Kismayo, Somalia. U.S. Africa Command, which conducted the strike and announced it today, said nothing in particular about ...

THANKS FOR BEARING WITH our pause in publication last week. Both Sam and I had inflexible deadlines for other projects. We should be back to a normal, if somewhat lighter, publication schedule now.

THE CLICHE GOES that the first casualty of war is the truth, but in the case of the Iran War, the first casualties were something like 168 schoolchildren in Minab. In a disgraceful round of testimony ...

Protesters at the Ice Out of MN march in Minneapolis, Minnesota in January. Photo by Lorie Shaull, CC-BY-4.0 Edited by Sam Thielman BUILDING SHIELDS. Constructing a Signal group chat and alerting ...

Drawing of the "small box" torture device by Abu Zubaydah. Edited by Sam Thielman ONE OF THE MOST horrific torture methods that the CIA employed in its post-9/11 incommunicado "black site" torture ...

SPENCER HERE. Today, Sam, FOREVER WARS' resident Christian, eulogizes radical cleric James Dobson. While Sam's focus is appropriately broad, it wouldn't be FOREVER WARS if we didn't observe that ...

This year's defense bill seeks to merge the U.S. and Israeli defense technological enterprises. The implications are huge The second caveat usually offered here is that the command structures of the U ...

Righteous victimhood fueled the War on Terror. 25 years later, we also have to remember all of those slain under its banner THIS PICTURE SITS in my living room. It ...

The ex-defense secretary wrote in his 2014 memoir that expanding NATO inevitably provoked Russia—and kept silent to George W. Bush instead of doing something about it. By contrast, a couple months ago ...

I'm writing the next Iron Man series for Marvel Comics. If you preorder it at a comic store, I'll send you exclusive merch When the best of his own technology fails him, Tony will build a brand-new ...