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The Cannibal Economy
How the US is converting civilian industry to arms production and draining its clients to sustain primacy Editorial Analysis | October 2026 The United States has entered a phase of imperial decline in which the strategies employed to sustain global primacy are themselves accelerating the erosion of the material foundations upon which that primacy rests.… Continue reading
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The President Changes. The Strategy Doesn’t
American Primacy, Structural Entrenchment, and the Path to Permanent Conflict On 8 March 1992, the New York Times published a front-page report under the headline “U.S. Strategy Plan Calls for Insuring No Rivals Develop,” based on a leaked draft of the Pentagon’s Defense Planning Guidance for fiscal years 1994 to 1999. The document, drafted under… Continue reading
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Kagan Admits Iran Won
The co-founder of the Project for the New American Century writes the Empire’s Obituary – How the United States Lost a War it Started and Cannot Escape the Consequences When Robert Kagan writes that the United States has suffered a total defeat from which it cannot recover, the machinery of American imperialism has not merely… Continue reading
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Former navy chief says UK can no longer run nuclear fleet
Long-term decline raises questions about Britain’s role in allied strategy Retired Rear Admiral Philip Mathias said Britain can no longer operate a reliable nuclear submarine program after years of structural failures that weakened the fleet and the industrial base behind it. He pointed to repeated delays in new builds, extended patrol cycles, and shortages in… Continue reading
