Trump the anti-war president was always a myth
Let the record show: Trump poured fuel on our endless wars and kicked diplomacy to the curb.
Let the record show: Trump poured fuel on our endless wars and kicked diplomacy to the curb.
This is what happens when lawmakers cram annual Pentagon funding into a politically charged package on a deadline.
Follow the money: America’s nuclear posture is driven by contracts and an army of lobbyists, not strategy.
The best hope for reducing Pentagon spending is the collision between that department’s never-ending, ever-rising desires and the overriding economic and political realities of this difficult moment.
Today’s greatest threats cannot be met with military might, yet it appears the incoming Biden administration has no intention of reining in the out of control DOD budget.
In 1967, Dr. King warned that “a nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”
Cutting the Pentagon budget needs a movement — a big one.
In some ways the COVID-19 pandemic is but a dress rehearsal for climate change, and the world has been granted a golden opportunity to change its ways before the worst is upon us.
Will China continue its economic rise? And will all U.S. leaders finally realize that climate change is truly an existential challenge?
Decades of militaristic foreign policy has left the U.S. ill-prepared to combat actual threats to Americans and the world.
The next president must anticipate resistance, both inside and outside government, to shifting away from counterterrorism national security posture.
President Eisenhower famously warned of the tradeoffs between foreign and domestic priorities, particularly when it comes to military spending.