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Entries by Tom Engelhardt from 03/2011

Old Secretaries of Defense Never Die, They Just Write Bestselling Memoirs

| Posted 03.07.2011 | Politics
Read More: Afghanistan War, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Donald Rumsfeld Book, Robert Gates, War, Donald Rumsfeld Memoir, Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, Politics News

Robert Gates' much-hinted-at retirement now seems like the Titanic looming on the military-industrial horizon.

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Taking the War Out of Air War: What U.S. Air Power Actually Does

| Posted 03.17.2011 | Politics
Read More: Drone Attacks, US Drone Attacks, Air War, Air Power, Pakistan Drone Attacks, Air Warfare, Air Force Drones, Afghanistan Air War, Drones, Predator Drones, US Drone Missiles, Politics News

U.S. air power is a form of warfare which guarantees the American side quite literal, godlike invulnerability. Can it be war if one side is never in danger?

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Missing in the Japan Catastrophe -- Thinking the Unthinkable

| Posted 03.22.2011 | World
Read More: Japan Nuclear Power Plant, Fukushima, Nuclear Energy, Japan Earthquake, Japan Nuclear Crisis, Japan Nuclear Reactor, Japan Nuclear Meltdown, Japan, Fukushima Nuclear Plant, U.S. Nuclear Power, Nuclear Power, World News

While each morning's screaming headlines contain terrible words -- "dire," "catastrophic," "ever worsening" -- you can feel the urge not to tumble into the irradiated zone of the nuclear imagination.

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