Exiting Afghanistan: Recriminations to come, and the lessons they will ignore
The sunk cost fallacy has mired the US in endless conflict.
The sunk cost fallacy has mired the US in endless conflict.
The “Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership Program” has done more harm than good and wasted taxpayer dollars.
These destructive weapons continue to kill decades after formal cessations of hostilities.
The administration is applying greater oversight across the range of military operations. Such oversight does not imply the end of the endless wars.
The US can park its military gear and instead help foment structures of good governance.
A draft of the upper income bracket might be the way to get Americans more engaged and more ‘invested’ in our conflicts overseas.
The president added that he doesn’t expect US troops to remain there by next year.
Biden officials told House Armed Services Chair Rep. Adam Smith that the proposed delay is a matter of logistics.
His new book, ‘The Stupidity of War,’ points out just how destructive US ‘counter-proliferation’ wars have been.
Many of these 800 installations have been around since WWII and don’t have anything to do with today’s challenges.
In some cases, the US provided facilities or equipment to the Afghan government without asking if it wanted, needed, or could maintain them.
We found that the majority of members on a panel advising the president about withdrawal have ties to the defense industry.
Keeping US troops there beyond the May 1 deadline won’t do anything to help intra-Afghan peace talks.
While well-intended, CVE programs don’t work and make it harder to fight terrorism.
Intra-Afghan negotiations resumed earlier this month and we asked a diverse group of Afghans about the process and their role in it.
Americans today are prisoners to a culture of endless war, militarism, and ever-rising defense spending.
Decades of war, U.S. sanctions, and a hypocritical approach to human rights has left the region seething. Is Biden listening?
Perhaps the horrors of 2020 can force a real conversation about national security in 2021.
The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies launches a PR push in apparent concern that endless war is not popular.
Trump’s Syria envoy said the US is discouraging aid efforts despite widespread poverty and imminent economic collapse.
Trump’s Syria envoy admitted to giving special treatment to the firm and that no other companies were involved.