Wanted a cleaner Kabul withdrawal? Here’s what you needed.
It required a ‘whole of government’ response, but DC wasn’t firing on all cylinders. There is plenty of blame to go around.
It required a ‘whole of government’ response, but DC wasn’t firing on all cylinders. There is plenty of blame to go around.
Heavily redacted classified DOJ memo shows the legal contortions used to justify the 2020 assassination.
Normalizing relations with the island would go a long way towards promoting one of the president’s “core pillars” of US foreign policy.
Few empires that have been able to unclench their fists and let go of self-destructive commitments.
Selling war and death should be no joy for any country, so halting it is a goal well worth fighting for.
Biden appears to be revoking a Trump-era waiver that put the U.S. in the middle of a battle over Syria’s crude resources.
According to this exhaustive reporting, Trump’s thwarted revenge scenario was not what you might think. It just didn’t work.
The GOP hawk may lose her leadership today, but her bloody record on war and torture should have disqualified her years ago.
Center-right Americans are far more anti-war than they were in 2016. GOP elites will find out soon enough.
A boon for weapons companies, the sale of F-35s, drones, and bombs is controversial but not enough to keep it from happening.
The Georgia shootings have forced us to acknowledge that ramping up rhetoric to scapegoat or get more defense dollars has consequences.
COVID one year later: We built up our ‘superpowers’ for force projection at the expense of everything else. Now see the results.
His team has so far sounded more like Trump than the departure from the past it promised during the campaign.
The first step is to acknowledge our own shortcomings before going out to tell others how it’s done.
During Trump’s tenure, the French president said NATO was in a ‘brain death’ spiral and was talking up a European army.
The last four years have given us a real-life lesson in presidentialism run amok. It didn’t start with Trump but it can end with him.
There must be a commitment to bringing the insurgents to the table — and stopping foreign support for warring parties.
It may be temporary, but now’s the time for critics to start throwing up road blocks while they have the chance.
The way war drives our scourges at home and exacerbates the fissures, escapes many. MLK knew better.
By signaling greater support for Taipei’s independence, Washington is risking the island’s safety and 40-years of Sino-U.S. peace.
Turns out the defense secretary’s confirmation was a piece of cake. Now the hard part, deciding who’s in — and out — of the E-Ring.