Humanitarian assistance doesn’t give militarism a free pass
The United States has often helped create — and missed opportunities to prevent — circumstances that require emergency aid.
The United States has often helped create — and missed opportunities to prevent — circumstances that require emergency aid.
The Biden administration has vowed to combat cronyism and can start by confronting the security sector.
Tehran vowed to purge American influence from the region. On that score, their record is decidedly mixed.
Two big ones — nearly 50 years apart — marked the biggest US foreign policy disasters in recent memory.
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To be successful in 2022, he needs to take more risks, and think less about political backlash from hawks and the Blob.
New data shows stunning plunge in coverage, just as the humanitarian crisis — much of it caused by Washington sanctions — peaks.
Washington is helping to set into motion the makings of a failed state — with all of the human suffering that comes with it.
The backlash and sense of betrayal during 20 years of war, which culminated with the Afghanistan withdrawal has taken its toll.
A new book finds that failure is baked in the cake yet the US insists on playing with fire again and again.
It may be too soon to erect a monument to a 20-year conflict that is ongoing and that many Americans still don’t understand.
Something is driving military men and women to suicide. It’s time to take stock of the tempo and deployments and figure out what.
Most spoke about the pride they felt in uniform, but disenchantment with the war, and a somewhat dismal view of the future.
The decision to freeze nearly $10 billion in government assets has put an already impoverished country on the brink of state collapse.
The former Afghan envoy popped up at a conference of U.S. war policy critics. He agrees with them, and perhaps that’s all that matters.
The only “winners” in the two-decade war are the members of America’s military-industrial-congressional complex.
We have to correct the widening disconnect between foreign policy decision-making and average citizens’ daily lives.
Uzbekistan has been discussed as the most likely contender to accept some sort of U.S. military presence, despite Tashkent’s denials.
In his first interview post-Afghanistan withdrawal, the longtime US diplomat is sometimes selective, other times brutally honest.
A veteran war correspondent recalls the ignorance, poor judgement, exceptionalism, and hubris in all of our interventions.
The Marine violated regulations and stood trial as a result. But his broadside against the generals in Afghanistan was spot on.