Renovating ‘the Swamp’ post COVID-19 by reconfiguring budgets and bureaucracy
The next president must anticipate resistance, both inside and outside government, to shifting away from counterterrorism national security posture.
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.
Now is probably not the best time for the Defense Secretary to be tweeting about how nuclear weapons development is the Trump administration’s top priority.
The firing could be called a canary in the coal mine if Washington hadn’t already become littered with canary carcasses warning of a Trumpian dystopia devoid of truth and accountability.
If the coronavirus pandemic leads to partial deglobalization and delinkage, the U.S. could, if it chose, resist the urge to attempt managing stability in far flung places.
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.
We were raised to believe in American exceptionalism. But why are we on track to have the worst coronavirus pandemic outbreak of any country on Earth?
Applying the war metaphor to counterterrorism got us a war in Iraq. Applying it to the fight against COVID-19 can have similar disastrous consequences.
The Trump administration recently loosened restrictions on controls the United States had previously adopted to curb illegitimate firearms sales to conflict zones.
The U.S. sanctions that are contributing to the misery and death of Iranians are meant to save them … or something.
Sudan’s response to the coronavirus has been one bright spot in this ongoing pandemic. But it’s not out of the woods yet, and some say U.S. sanctions are preventing it from winning the fight.
U.S. sanctions have begun to shift Tehran’s nuclear calculus. Now, COVID-19 may have provided Tehran with the opportunity to make a dash for the bomb.
The U.S. often evokes Iranian women’s struggles to justify coercive measures against Tehran. But evidence shows that U.S. policies help holding women back.
Even as he’s reducing the number of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, Donald Trump is expanding and deepening the War on Terror — and making it deadlier.
Three-plus years into Donald Trump’s misshapen presidency the president was left with a rump collection of yes-people around him, like Rudy Giuliani.
There is no significant anti-war movement in America because there’s no war to protest. Let me explain. In February 2003, […]
Advocates of an alternative approach to U.S. foreign policy must understand that although this is surely a policy fight, but it’s more fundamentally a paradigm fight.
U.S. imperialism in the early twentieth century produced Smedley Butler, but the interventionism of this century hasn’t produced a single comparable figure.
All Donald Trump has done is make the lives of civilians in Iran, North Korea, and Venezuela miserable.
A new survey finds that those Americans who have lived most of their lives with the U.S. at war are looking for something new.
After 18-plus years of our forever wars, where are all the questions? Who’s been fired for them? Who’s been impeached? Who’s even paying attention?