. I already wrote about the natural experiment of Greece crashing its extremely high military spending for fiscal reasons, but nobody inv...

. I mentioned a couple times on this blog (and elsewhere even more often) that I place a great emphasis on delaying actions in convention...

. I'm in the mood for some videos, particularly funny ones: Something serious for a change: That's...

. "Saudi Arabia’s Incompetence Would Be Comical If It Weren’t Killing So Many People" https://theintercept.com/2017/11/17/saudi-...

. People sometimes ask me why I'm interested in U.S. politics. The answer is always about the same; they start too many bad things the...

. I know, posts like this undermine the seriousness of my other posts. :-( S O defence_and_freedom@gmx.de .

. There's occasionally a minor debate about whether the Americans should withdraw their about 20 nuclear bombs from Germany. This is m...

. Yesterday I wrote that I have very little if anything to add to that old debate, so this is a sorry excuse of "very little to add...

. There's a rare and very interesting category of books on military affairs that appears to be provoked by defeat in war: Veterans who...

. "War is a racket" by Major General Smedley D. Butler is an antiwar classic by a highly decorated U.S. Marine Cops officer. ...