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Our Government Is Planning to Stay at War for the Next 80 Years -- Anyone Got a Problem with That?

Tom Hayden, LA Times. March 31, 2010.

Without public debate and without congressional hearings, a segment of the Pentagon and fellow travelers have embraced a doctrine known as the Long War.

Andrew Bacevich Asks Congress If We Can Afford the "Long War"

ZP Heller, Brave New Films. April 27, 2009.

Why progressives should dump the "war on terror" in favor of another frame.

For All the Rhetoric, the New Pentagon Budget is No Revolution in Defense Spending

Daniel Luban, Ali Gharib, IPS News. April 9, 2009.

The new budget proposed by Defense Secretary Gates is higher than any of the Bush budgets that preceded it.

Orwell watch: beleaguered military declares "Long War" over.

Joshua Holland, April 20, 2007.

Joshua Holland: No word on next phony war.