Category: Military

The Military–Palantir Complex

Sponsored by Royal Collection Trust   Today in The New York Review of Books: Mark O’Connell on Alex Karp’s fellowship of war profiteers; E. Tammy Kim on the legacy of the WTO protests in Seattle; Joshua Craze on how Western powers have enabled a dictatorship in South Sudan; Ilija Trojanow on life in exile; […]

It’s Time to Get Out for Good

Peter Slezkine , Jennifer Kavanagh Jun 23, 2025 12:05 AM “Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon” has been Trump’s much-repeated message, and after last night’s bombing of the Fordo, Natanz, and Isfahan nuclear facilities, the president declared his mission accomplished. Declaring the operation a “spectacular military success,” he […]

Grand Martial

This week for the NYR Online, Linda Kinstler writes a dispatch from the “Army Birthday Festival,” the military parade in Washington, D.C., that Donald Trump convened last weekend to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the army’s founding and, as it happens, the seventy-ninth anniversary of Trump’s birth. [It] had […]

The new dreadnoughts

Week XXIV, MMXXV Recently, in The Signal: Why are Americans becoming so lonely? Milena Batanova on a problem U.S. officials have called an “epidemic.” Today: Why is China building so many ships? Brian Hart on its plan to turn overwhelming commercial advantage into military power. + Is anyone […]

Curt Mills on Pentagon ousters

View this email in your browser Curt Mills joins The Hill’s Rising to discuss Pentagon ousters WATCH HERE We are thrilled to share one of our latest media appearances where Curt Mills, The American Conservative’s executive director,  joined The Hill’s Rising podcast to discuss allegations that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s staff used […]

A War with Iran Would Not Be Wise

by Kenneth Schmidt Kenneth Schmidt Apr 11, 2025 Kenneth Schmidt warns that despite Trump’s peaceful instincts, escalating tensions with Iran — fueled by Zionist advisors — risk dragging the U.S. into a disastrous, unwinnable war against a vast, mountainous, and fanatically defended nation. President Trump has been engaging […]