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After surviving an Israeli airstrike that left her in a coma, Celine Haidar is back on the pitch, coaching footballers.
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strikeAug 14, 2026
Paper Tiger: the Failure of America’s Trillion Dollar War Machine | naked capitalism
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Yves here. There are many ways to chronicle the epic shortcomings of America’s ludicrously overpriced military. Haig gave a fine treatment of why we failed in the Iran war and are even more certain to do so were we to be so suicidal as to take on China in his post, The Iran War, China, and the Future of Sea Power.
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Yves here. There are many ways to chronicle the epic shortcomings of America’s ludicrously overpriced military. Haig gave a fine treatment of why we failed in the Iran war and are even more certain to do so were we to be so suicidal as to take on China in his post, The Iran War, …
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