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US may use drone strikes to destroy billions of dollars worth of military hardware left in Afghanistan
August 30, 2021
Professor Michael Desch, from the International Security Center at the University of Notre Dame, told i that the US had sent around $90bn (£65.40bn) of hardware into Afghanistan in the last 20 years, but much of that would have been on expendables “like boots, bullets, and beans.”
Afghanistan: A Requiem for an Avoidable Disaster
August 29, 2021
Most Americans can clearly agree that what they have been seeing time and again, domestically and overseas, is not good government, despite honorable intentions among many dedicated people.
Jim Webb served as a Marine in Vietnam, as Secretary of the Navy, and as a United States Senator. He is the Distinguished Fellow at Notre Dame’s International Security Center.
What Comes Next? A Lesson from Saigon
August 20, 2021
Rather than marking the eclipse of American power, withdrawal from Vietnam coincided with its spectacular increase.
Michael C. Desch is the Packey J. Dee Professor of International Affairs and Director of the Notre Dame International Security Center.
The Real Source of America’s Rising Rage
August 02, 2021
A mountain of evidence suggests that the American predilection for conspiracy theories is neither new nor growing. Joseph Uscinski and Joseph Parent, preeminent scholars of conspiracy theories, confirmed this with some original research based on letters to the editors of the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune between 1890 and 2010. Their conclusion: Belief in conspiracy theories has been stable since about 1960.