We can’t trust the US military to investigate civilian casualties
As the Biden administration appears to be ramping up airstrikes in Syria, Congress needs to do a full review of the American role in the country’s decade-long civil war.
As the Biden administration appears to be ramping up airstrikes in Syria, Congress needs to do a full review of the American role in the country’s decade-long civil war.
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.
A headline said today is the first Vets Day in decades ‘without a war underway.’ Huh?
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.
We have to correct the widening disconnect between foreign policy decision-making and average citizens’ daily lives.
This would add to 750 existing American bases abroad, according to a new Quincy study hot off the presses today.
The civ-mil divide and the health of our volunteer forces are of urgent concern right now, with blame pointed at the top.
The findings come as a separate study estimates the US has so far spent $8 trillion.
For President Bush, the only option was revenge, but an alternative path was available.
Billions of dollars of US materiel is now in the Taliban’s hands; but which leader will be taken to task for it, or for anything?
The former general joins a chorus of calls to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely with broad assumptions that there will be no costs.
Congress has abdicated its constitutional role, helping mire the US in endless conflicts around the world.
The findings come amid calls in Washington for the US to remain in Afghanistan indefinitely.
And how seeing its origins in Cold War geopolitics can help us avoid future disasters.
There are too many careers and too much money tied to American power projection. So expect it to shift, not recede from the stage.
The Afghanistan withdrawal should be just the first step in a wider push to draw down the US military presence in the greater Middle East.
The term moral injury identifies a deep existential pain destroying the lives of too many active-duty personnel and vets.
Unfortunately it’s no surprise the White House hasn’t even remarked, much less justified recent actions in Afghanistan and Somalia.
The move only serves to reinforce America’s forever wars.
The American interests at stake are unclear and Congress hasn’t provided authorization.
If Congress wants to vote on a new war against Iran, it should summon the political courage to do so.