ELIZA BLEU AND THE PERPETUAL TRAUMA MACHINE—PART 2

Pentagon Prepares A-10 Warthog Surge As Mideast Fleet Set To Double The Department of War is preparing to double its fleet of Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt IIs, better known in the aviation community as "Warthogs," in the Middle East in the very near term, The New York Times reported Wednesday. The surge of additional Warthogs, as many as 18, on top of the roughly dozen A-10s already operating in the region, has already been used to sink Iranian boats in the Hormuz chokepoint and strike Iran-backed militias in Iraq, according...

The Iranian government has allowed a number of foreign vessels to transit the Strait of Hormuz in recent days, with some reports stating that a one-month permit had been granted to certain ships. Once a conduit for much of the world’s oil supply, the strait was effectively closed by Tehran in response to US and […]

John Mearsheimer Asks: Will Trump Go Kamikaze? Authored by John Mearsheimer There is much talk about President Trump preparing to launch a ground attack against Iran. In the media discourse, much is made of the fact we have about 50,000 troops in the region. See for example these three articles. One might think those are all combat troops and we therefore have roughly three combat divisions available to invade Iran. But that is not true. Until recently, there were about 40,000 US troops in the region, which were mainly a mixture of Air Force,...