The Deep Rot Inside the Over-Extended US Armed Forces

The waste, incompetence, and dysfunction is a reflection of how the US itself has lost its way, becoming a shambling empire rather than the utopian Republic it began as…

F. William Engdahl

Since the inauguration of US President D. J. Trump in January 2017, along with his contingent of generals, Washington has rattled its nuclear and other military sabers in most every direction, threatening to totally destroy North Korea, ramping up weapons deliveries to Syrian opposition groups, scaling up AFRICOM military actions, sending its naval fleets in every imaginable direction from the South China Sea to the Baltic, building up troops along the borders to Russia, threatening Iran…

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