Danny Sjursen
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Lawrence, KS, United States
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How to Lose a Cold War With China
The U.S. military and its civilian leaders are overemphasizing militarized responses to what is largely an economic and diplomatic challenge. → Read More
The future of war, American-style
A Bidenesque tour of America’s regional and global military adventures → Read More
Spilling ink and spilling blood: Fighting and writing against America’s forever wars
Two men take a unique look back at the paths they took to becoming critics of America’s wars and its war machine → Read More
What President Biden won’t touch
Foreign policy, sacred cows, and the U.S. military → Read More
What If They Called an Election and Nothing Changed in the War State?
In this mystifying moment, the post-electoral sentiments of most Americans can be summed up either as “Ding dong! The witch is dead!” or “We got robbed!” Both are problematic, not because the two candidates were intellectually indistinguishable or ethically equivalent, but because each jingle is laden with a dubious assumption: that President Donald Trump’s demise would provide either decisive… → Read More
Tulsa undercover: Inside Trump's rally
The intensity of the MAGA crowd's vitriol is partly driven by a suspicion that Trump is losing military loyalty → Read More
Renaming Army Posts—These 10 Soldiers Deserve the Honor
Renaming Army Posts—These 10 Soldiers Deserve the Honor | RealClearDefense → Read More
Op-Ed: Rename the Army posts — these 10 soldiers deserve the honor
Take the names of traitor generals off Army posts and replace them with these 10 honorable soldiers. → Read More
The coming of a social-distancing version of war
Covid-19, an ongoing global human tragedy, may have at least one silver lining. It has led millions of people to question America's most malignant policies at home and abroad. Regarding Washington's war policies abroad, there's been speculation that the coronavirus might, in the end, put a dent in such conflicts, if not prove an unintended peacemaker — and with good reason, since a cash-flush… → Read More
The evolution of forever wars: Our military’s dark endgame may lead to an obscene future – A
Covid-19, an ongoing global human tragedy, may have at least one silver lining. It has led millions of people to question America’s most malignant policies at home and abroad. Regarding Washington’s war policies abroad, there’s been speculation that the coronavirus might, in the end, put a dent i → Read More
The Future of Forever War, American-Style
Covid-19, an ongoing global human tragedy, may have at least one silver lining. It has led millions of people to question America’s most malignant policies at home and abroad. Regarding Washington’s war policies abroad, there’s been speculation that the coronavirus might, in the end, put a dent in such conflicts, if not prove an unintended peacemaker — and with good reason, since a cash-flush… → Read More
What on Earth is the U.S. doing by bombing Somalia?
The Trump administration has quietly ramped up a vicious bombing—and covert raiding—campaign in Somalia amid a global coronavirus pandemic. Neither the White House nor the Pentagon has provided any explanation for the deadly escalation of a war that Congress hasn’t declared and the media rarely repo → Read More
Romance Is the New Realism: Eugene Debs and the Age of Corona – Countercurrents
In this pandemic-era, it has become increasingly clear that we are only as healthy as the least insured—hence the poorest—in our society. Eugene Debs delivering a speech in Chicago in 1912. “I can see the dawn of the better day for humanity,” the famous socialist leader once said. “The people are awakening. In due time they will and must come[Read More...] → Read More
How the 'West Point Mafia' Runs Washington, Ensuring America Is Permanently at War
I’m sure you still remember them. The president regularly called them “my generals.” They were, he claimed, from “central casting” and there were three of them: retired Marine Corps General John Kelly, who was first appointed secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and then White House chief of staff; Army Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster, who became the president’s → Read More
How the 'West Point mafia' wields power in and around the Trump White House
Mike Pompeo, Mark Esper, and other members of the West Point class of 1986 wield a lot of power in and around the Trump administration. → Read More
Trump and the military mafia: How the disease of American imperialism permeates the structure of our government
Every West Point class votes on an official motto. Most are then inscribed on their class rings. Hence, the pejorative West Point label "ring knocker." (As legend has it, at military meetings a West Pointer “need only knock his large ring on the table and all Pointers present are obliged to rally to → Read More
Trump's Own Military Mafia – Countercurrents
Every West Point class votes on an official motto. Most are then inscribed on their class rings. Hence, the pejorative West Point label “ring knocker.” (As legend has it, at military meetings a West Pointer “need only knock his large ring on the table and all Pointers present are obliged to rally to his point of view.”) Last August, the class of 2023 announced theirs: “Freedom Is[Read More...] → Read More
Why no retired generals oppose America's forever wars
A nation turns its lonely eyes to (someone like) you... → Read More
Why No Retired Generals Oppose America's Forever Wars – Countercurrents
There once lived an odd little man — five feet nine inches tall and barely 140 pounds sopping wet — who rocked the lecture circuit and the nation itself. For all but a few activist insiders and scholars, U.S. Marine Corps Major General Smedley Darlington Butler is now lost to history. Yet more than a century ago, this strange contradiction of a[Read More...] → Read More
How the professionalization of the military quashes much-needed dissent
There once lived an odd little man -- five feet nine inches tall and barely 140 pounds sopping wet -- who rocked the lecture circuit and the nation itself. For all but a few activist insiders and scholars, U.S. Marine Corps Major General Smedley Darlington Butler is now lost to history. Yet more tha → Read More