William J. Astore
William J. Astore, a retired lieutenant colonel (USAF), is a TomDispatch regular. He has taught at the Air Force Academy and the Naval Postgraduate School, and now teaches history at the Pennsylvania College of Technology. He can be reached at wastore@pct.edu.
Other articles by this author
Military Dissent Is Not an Oxymoron: Freeing Democracy From Perpetual War
By William J. Astore, TomDispatch | Op-Ed
We Are the Empire: Of US Military Interventions, Alien Disaster Movies and "Star Wars"
By William J. Astore, TomDispatch | Op-Ed
Dominating the Skies -- and Losing the Wars: Air Supremacy Isn't What It Used to Be
By William J. Astore, TomDispatch | News Analysis
What's the Meaning of Failure? A Dictionary of Euphemisms for Imperial Decline
By William J. Astore, TomDispatch | Op-Ed
A Military Leviathan Has Emerged as the United States' 51st and Most Powerful State
By William J. Astore, TomDispatch | News Analysis
The US Military Suffers From Affluenza: Showering the Pentagon With Money and Praise
By William J. Astore, TomDispatch | News Analysis
Tourists of Empire: The United States' Peculiar Brand of Global Imperialism
By William J. Astore, TomDispatch | Op-Ed
Seventy Years of Military Mediocrity: The Shared Failings of US Military Academies and Senior Officers
By William J. Astore, TomDispatch | Op-Ed
The US and War: Poverty, Drugs, Terror or How to Make War on Everything
By William J. Astore, TomDispatch | Op-Ed
The US Military Uncontained: Chaos Spread, Casualties Inflicted, Missions Unaccomplished
By William J. Astore, TomDispatch | News Analysis
Petraeus and Snowden: Both Leakers of Classified Material, Same Punishment?
By William J. Astore, The Contrary Perspective | Op-Ed
War Is the New Normal: Seven Deadly Reasons Why US Wars Persist
By William J. Astore, TomDispatch | Op-Ed
Investing in Junk Armies: Why US Efforts to Create Foreign Armies Fail
By William J. Astore, TomDispatch | Op-Ed
The American Cult of Bombing: Why You Should Expect More Bombs to Be Dropped Everywhere
By William J. Astore, TomDispatch | Op-Ed
World War I, the Death of Chivalry and the False End of War
By William J. Astore, The Contrary Perspective | Op-Ed
Uncle Sam Doesn't Want You - He Already Has You
By William J. Astore, TomDispatch | Op-Ed
Fighting for Coveted Combat Badges and Patches
By William J. Astore, The Contrary Perspective | Op-Ed
The My Lai Massacre Just Got Worse
By William J. Astore, The Contrary Perspective | Op-Ed
Thanking Me for My Service
By William J. Astore, The Contrary Perspective | Op-Ed
Hair-Trigger America
By William J. Astore, Truthout | Op-Ed
Quick Thoughts on the Oscars
By William J. Astore, Contrary Perspective | Op-Ed
The Pentagon's Sky Is Falling!
By William J. Astore, Contrary Perspective | Op-Ed
Do We Learn Anything from History?
By William J. Astore, Contrary Perspective | Op-Ed
Rulers' Ideas Rule
By William J. Astore, Contrary Perspective | Op-Ed
All the Insecurity Money Can Buy
By William J. Astore, The Contrary Perspective | News Analysis
The Business of America Is War: Disaster Capitalism on the Battlefield and in the Boardroom
By William J. Astore, TomDispatch | News Analysis
The US Military's Limited Critique of Itself Ensures Future Disasters
By William J. Astore, The Contrary Perspective | Op-Ed
The Perils of Zombie Education
By William J. Astore, Truthout | Op-Ed
Drone Warfare is Neither Cheap, Nor Surgical, Nor Decisive: The Ever-Destructive Dreams of Air Power Enthusiasts
By William J. Astore, TomDispatch | News Analysis
Why Johnny Can't Read or Win Wars
By William J. Astore, Truthout | Op-Ed
The Vietnam War Memorial in Vietnam Would Be 20 to 50 Times Larger Than Ours
By William J. Astore, AlterNet | Op-Ed
Sucking Up to the Military Brass
By William J. Astore, TomDispatch | News Analysis
The Temptations of Drone Warfare
By William J. Astore, SpeakOut | Opinion
The National Security State Wins (Again)
By William J. Astore, TomDispatch | News Analysis
"Act of Valor"? Beware Exalting Our Starship Troopers
By William J. Astore, Truthout | Op-Ed
Weapons R Us: Making Warbirds Instead of Thunderbirds
By William J. Astore, TomDispatch | Report
The Wars of the One Percent
By William J. Astore, TomDispatch | News Analysis
Giving Thanks to Our Public Servants
By William J. Astore, | Op-Ed
Education: Our True Homeland Security
By William J. Astore, Truthout | Op-Ed
The Dangerous Myth of American Military Omnipotence
By William J. Astore, Truthout | News Analysis
How the Military and the Civilian Are Blurring in Washington
By William J. Astore, TomDispatch | Op-Ed
Remembering the Quiet, Unsung Heroes of America
By William J. Astore, Truthout | Op-Ed