Bill Buppert, retired US Army officer and blogger, discusses the near-revolt of junior officers in the US armed forces over the bogus reasons given for war in Iraq and Afghanistan; COIN‘s failure against Islamic insurgencies dating back to WWII; how the immature antics of young soldiers deployed abroad make winning ‘hearts and minds’ all but impossible; fascism in the form of the American Protective League during the Woodrow Wilson administration; the danger an unforeseen ‘black swan‘ event will suddenly collapse the US empire and economy; and how a single state seceding from the US will rapidly accelerate the nation’s dissolution.
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