We need more oversight on US counterterrorism policy in the wake of AQAP’s confirmed involvement in the Pensacola attack
The US needs to state its objectives clearly so that we’re not bogged down in counterterrorism operations indefinitely.
The US needs to state its objectives clearly so that we’re not bogged down in counterterrorism operations indefinitely.
Some have argued that the US should commit to an increasing dependence on petroleum, as well as ushering in a new cycle of overseas interventions propping up an existing, overburdened, and outdated system of U.S. military hegemony.
Decades of militaristic foreign policy has left the U.S. ill-prepared to combat actual threats to Americans and the world.
While the COVID-19 pandemic is strangling Afghanistan, the country’s leaders are still in the beginning stages of negotiations to end decades of conflict.
The next president must anticipate resistance, both inside and outside government, to shifting away from counterterrorism national security posture.
From the perspective of public discourse in the U.S., our globe-spanning, resource-draining military and security apparatus exists in an entirely parallel universe to the one most Americans experience on a daily level.
This crisis is exposing just how senseless Washington’s approach to Pyongyang has been for the last seventy years, and why it must change as soon as possible.
The coronavirus doesn’t care whether there’s a war going on in Afghanistan, which makes the resource-starved country’s humanitarian crisis even worse.
Many have compared the U.S.-Taliban agreement to Vietnam but Afghanistan doesn’t fit neatly into a North-South divide.
An attack this week on an Iraqi base that killed two U.S. service members, and the U.S. military response, should serve as a reminder that endless war isn’t just confined to Afghanistan.
The coronavirus isn’t just a general public health and economic threat. It can also impede prospects for peace.
There simply is no military-only, or even military-centered, solution to ridding West Africa and the Sahel from terrorism.