Pentagon Leak Reveals 14 U.S. Troops in Ukraine
While escalation is not inevitable, it’s still a risk having any U.S. boots on the ground.
While escalation is not inevitable, it’s still a risk having any U.S. boots on the ground.
Does Ukraine face an existential risk? Does it matter?
Four years after IS was officially defeated, the U.S. continues to keep hundreds of troops in Syria to fight the vanquished terrorist group.
It would result in shortages, decreases in productivity, and higher production costs affecting millions of American workers and nearly every consumer.
Bolton says the Bush administration's biggest error in Iraq was failing to invade Iran too. That's madness.
There's little reason to believe that any of the tactics Republican politicians are proposing would be effective in keeping fentanyl out of the country.
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Many Democrats and Republicans were outraged when Trump and Biden respectively were found with classified documents. But both sides are missing the point.
Lawmakers are once again trying to reclaim their war powers through AUMF repeal.
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Legislators will increasingly argue over how to spend a diminishing discretionary budget while overall spending simultaneously explodes.
These days, he may run for president. His politics have changed.
After $67 billion and more than 20 years, the F-22 finally won a dogfight against an unarmed, nearly immobile opponent.
It was a blunder. Worse than that, it was a crime.
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Sen. Rand Paul says Republicans "have to give up the sacred cow" of military spending in order to make a deal that will address the debt ceiling and balance the budget.
Compared to Russia, war with China is a deeper nightmare.
The actual total is probably higher according to the Government Accountability Office's new report.
It's not Trump vs. Biden: High officials play fast and loose with government secrets, but only regular people face harsh penalties.
Like other authorizations for the use of military force—or AUMFs—it would be an unnecessary, unwise expansion of executive power.
A Swedish company will soon be delivering electric single-person aircraft that can take off and land vertically, which the F-35B struggles with despite billions in funding.
For most aid critics, the urge to cut off Kyiv appears unconnected to any sort of principled realism, non-interventionism, or even isolationism.
Join Reason on YouTube and Facebook on Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern for a live discussion of America's continued funding of Ukraine's defense against Russia's invasion.
If lawmakers keep spending like they are, and if the Fed backs down from taming inflation, then the government may create a perfect storm.
They say the U.S. is pivoting to other conflicts, but the Pentagon hasn't exactly left the Middle East and North Africa behind.
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Faced with White House opposition, Sanders withdrew a resolution that would've challenged U.S. involvement in the Yemeni Civil War.
The Human Rights Foundation is mobilizing a global band of activists to fight authoritarianism in China, Iran, Russia, and beyond.
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Antiwar.com's Scott Horton and former Army Lt. Col. Daniel Davis warn about the grave danger of escalating the war in Ukraine
Professors Miller and Tucker miss the mark, while Saul Cornell disdains accuracy
The South Korean government brings the country's greatest cultural export to heel.
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If the combat mission is over in the Middle East, Biden should follow—and make permanent—more cautious drone guidelines.
Author Ward Wilson advocates eliminating nuclear weapons. Defense consultant Peter Huessy says that's unrealistic.
Unsurprisingly, numerous Russians don't want to be forced to fight in Vladimir Putin's pointless war.
Green Beret Scott Mann suffered severe trauma following his three tours in Afghanistan. He never wanted to have anything to do with country again. Then his friend Nezam called to say that his life was in danger.
U.S. counterterrorism action in Somalia hasn’t been approved by Congress, but it rages on anyway.
So far, U.S. support for Ukraine hasn’t had any consequences for us. We shouldn’t expect it to always be that way.
But a few remnants of post-9/11 foreign and domestic policy still need to be thrown out.
"It was learning by doing," says one ambulance driver. "Most things that happen here are done by volunteers, not government officials."
Biden brought an unwinnable war to an end. But the lessons learned are only as valuable as the U.S. government’s willingness to put them to good use.
As appalling as the Russian foreign minister’s admission is, it does not change the reasons to avoid a war with Moscow.
If you believe that moving most of our chip production onshore is good for national security, you should labor for regulatory reforms rather than subsidies.
Poor accounting practices mean the Department of Defense can't even tell how much money or equipment it has lost.