Links: Militarism, Empire, War
- Robert C. Koehler, Cheap Frames of Expensive War, CommonDreams.org, 30 July 2009.
- Stanley Kutler, Lesson of Vietnam Lost in Afghanistan, Truthdig, truthdig.com, 20 August 2009.
- Richard A. Oppel Jr., Marines Fight With Little Aid From Afghans, The New York Times, NYTimes.com, 22 August 2009.
- David Sirota, The Science Fiction of Military Marketing, CommonDreams.org, 28 August 2009.
- Tom Engelhardt, G.I. Joe, Post-American Hero: The Long, Slow Death of American Triumphalism [Tomgram: The Next War, On-Screen and Off], TomDispatch.com, 26 August 2009.
- Patrick Cockburn, Life and Death in Baghdad as Americans Leave, CounterPunch, counterpunch.org, 17 August 2009.
- Scott Horton, Once Upon a Coup, No Comment blog at Harper's Magazine, 27 August 2009.
- * Sherwood Ross, Rise of Mercenary Armies Menace World, Help White House Thwart Peace Movement, The Smirking Chimp, 31 August 2009.
- * David Swanson, Bush's Third Term?: You're Living It [Tom Engelhardt, Tomgram: David Swanson, The More Things Change], TomDispatch, TomDispatch.com, 01 September 2009.
Chris Floyd, The 16th Term: Obama's New Betrayals are Old, Old Hat, Empire Burlesque, 02 September 2009.
- * Glenn Greenwald, The looming political war over Afghanistan, Salon.com, 03 September 2009.
- Thom Shanker, Despite Slump, U.S. Role as Top Arms Supplier Grows, The New York Times, NYTimes.com, 06 September 2009.
- Paul Craig Roberts, Indefensible Nation: US Hypocrisy Astonishes the World, CounterPunch.org, 07 September 2009.
- Tom Engelhardt, Is America Hooked on War? [Tomgram: War Is Peace], TomDispatch.com, 17 September 2009.
- Alex Massie, Americans treating Presidents like Kings. Monarchy restored surreptitiously, by dint of general stupidity, Cyrano's Journal Online, 20 September 2009.
- Carol Becker, Forty Years Later Calley Speaks Up, truthout, 23 September 2009.
- * Tom Engelhardt, How to Trap a President in a Losing War: Petraeus, McChrystal, and the Surgettes [Tomgram: A Military That Wants Its Way], TomDispatch, tomdispatch.com, 24 September 2009.
- Gary Hart, The President in Chains, The Huffington Post, 24 September 2009.
* Gary Wills, Entangled Giant, The New York Review of Books, 08 October 2009.