Most Read War on the Rocks Articles of 2018 by WOTR Staff
By Robert Burns, AP: "As Shanahan sat to Trump’s left at a Cabinet meeting at the White House, the president denounced U.S. allies as freeloaders, expressed disgust with U.S. warfighting strategy in Afghanistan, mused about his own potential to be a great general, dismissed Syria as “sand and death,” spoke encouragingly of a second North Korea summit, and falsely claimed he had fired former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis."
Shanahan Picks DoD Comptroller Norquist As New Deputy SecDef
By Caitlin M. Kenney, Stars and Stripes: “He canceled a trip to a cemetery in France where American soldiers from World War I are buried. He did not go to the observance at Arlington National Cemetery on Veterans Day. He has not visited American troops in Iraq or Afghanistan.”
BY ASIA TIMES STAFF
Move follows appeal to Damascus for support against planned Turkish offensive
- Trump’s Realist Foreign Policy Is Best for U.S. Security by John Allen Gay
- Time for Political Peace in Afghanistan, Not a Withdrawal by Aseef Raihan
- Syria: Trump's Approach to World Politics by William Ruger