About Matt Armstrong
Arming for the War We’re In is a continuation of my blogging that began in 2004 at mountainrunner. us (that blog has been paused since I launched this substack in 2022). “Arming for the War We’re In” relates to discussions, organizations, and proposed legislation in the early cold war, which, sadly, relate to the present as well. Because we fail to understand our history, there is a broad failure to grasp the details and meaning of the trajectories of international affairs, organizations, legislation, and policies, past and present.
The purpose of this blog is to revisit history to better understand the present and be better prepared to recommend modern solutions to current issues, some of which are not as novel as they are made out to be. Along the way, some accepted narratives will be shown to be misleading or outright false.