Time to cut Uganda’s Museveni loose from military aid?
Another example of how our post-9/11 counterterrorism interests have emboldened violent leaders who seem to stay in power forever.
Another example of how our post-9/11 counterterrorism interests have emboldened violent leaders who seem to stay in power forever.
The House passed a bill that sounds good superficially, but doesn’t end the useless militarized approach or get to root problems.
US security assistance to partner militaries for counterterrorism missions further destabilizes the region.
A new report outlines a path forward for moving away from focusing US national security policy on counterterrorism.
The death of the country’s longtime ruler provides an opportunity to move away from viewing the region through a counterterrorism lens.
The “Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership Program” has done more harm than good and wasted taxpayer dollars.
The president has made some tentatively positive moves on drone strikes and AUMF. But let’s take a deeper look.
The State Department’s terrorist lists have become politicized and counterproductive.
Keeping US troops there beyond the May 1 deadline won’t do anything to help intra-Afghan peace talks.
Intra-Afghan negotiations resumed earlier this month and we asked a diverse group of Afghans about the process and their role in it.
Let the record show: Trump poured fuel on our endless wars and kicked diplomacy to the curb.
Pompeo’s recent abuse of terrorism designations is part of the Trump administration’s salting of the earth before giving way to the Biden administration.
The 2001 AUMF must not only be repealed, but Congress and the president must also reassess US counterterrorism strategy.
The Emirates have managed to frame suppression of domestic dissent as counterterrorism, and the U.S. says nothing.
As we look inwards to dismantle America’s legacy of racism, we must also recognize that racism and militarism abroad are mutually reinforcing.
The work of U.N. specialized agencies must not be subordinated to the aspirations of those who want to hijack the U.N. to serve their counterterrorism politics irrespective of everything else.
US policymakers routinely see the African continent as a battlefield in the so-called “war on terror” rather than the opportunity for economic partnership that it is.
The US needs to state its objectives clearly so that we’re not bogged down in counterterrorism operations indefinitely.
Applying the war metaphor to counterterrorism got us a war in Iraq. Applying it to the fight against COVID-19 can have similar disastrous consequences.
A parallel narrative that unfolded alongside the post-9/11 wars exposes the utter irrelevance of the national security state as currently constituted.
There simply is no military-only, or even military-centered, solution to ridding West Africa and the Sahel from terrorism.