Recalling the travails of the ‘big stick’
COVID one year later: We built up our ‘superpowers’ for force projection at the expense of everything else. Now see the results.
COVID one year later: We built up our ‘superpowers’ for force projection at the expense of everything else. Now see the results.
The president has made some tentatively positive moves on drone strikes and AUMF. But let’s take a deeper look.
Reorienting focus will turn US competitors like China into partners in combating a shared threat.
Our youngest voters aren’t a monolith, but one study finds they have one thing widely in common and it revolves around war.
The immediate crises of the American republic should be clear enough right now: responding to the pandemic and restoring our civilian democracy.
Most of the suffering doesn’t happen in the moment of combat amid the bullets, bombs, and IEDs on America’s foreign battlefields.
Just look at the disastrous regime wars and persecution of Muslims after 9/11 to sense where this could go.
Perhaps the horrors of 2020 can force a real conversation about national security in 2021.
The response to the COVID-19 pandemic has weakened the U.S. economy, the foundation of its national power. This has implications for U.S. foreign policy.
The ruthless partisanship and attack tactics of Trump and his followers have ill consequences that will persist long after the pandemic has eased.
The United States’ expensive national security apparatus has been conspicuously useless in efforts to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
A forward-looking question to ask amid the current crisis is: will the inevitable highlighting of government’s necessary role in the crisis lead to greater recognition of the necessity of that role at other times?
Remember the Patriot Act? It still exists, and law enforcement is still widely abusing it. A key part of this […]