I’ve been writing critiques of the Pentagon, the national security state, and America’s never-ending military overreach since at least 1979 – in other words, virtually my entire working life.
In those decades, there were moments when positive changes did occur. They ranged from ending the apartheid regime in South Africa in 1994 and halting US military support for the murderous regimes, death squads, and outlaws who ruled Central America in the 1970s and 1980s to sharp reductions in the US and Russian nuclear arsenals as the Cold War wound down.
Each of those victories, however complex, seemed like a signal that sustained resistance and global solidarity mattered and could make a difference when it came to peace and security.
