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.
Plus: North Carolina strikes down voter ID law, more turmoil at Twitter, and more...
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.
Why does the newest branch of the U.S. military need horses?
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.
Plus: The editors consider Ye and social media, then field a question about the TARP bailouts during the 2008 fiscal crisis.
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.
Joe Biden announced an additional $800 million in weapons aid for Ukraine following last week's news that CIA personnel are directing intelligence in Kyiv.
Lawmakers are avoiding important debates about America's role in the conflict and the potential for misuse of funds and weapons.
Under Biden, Trump, and Obama, government federal spending almost doubled.
Presidents once treated congressional authorization as a requirement for the U.S. to enter conflicts. What went wrong?
There’s no endpoint in sight to a war that threatens widespread consequences.
GAO: Congress has been buying planes that lack crucial parts and haven't undergone full testing, so costly upgrades will eventually be needed.
The proposed defense budget reaches $813 billion, and politicians still can’t think critically about how to spend it.
Reflections from Robert Leider on the oral argument in Torres v. Texas Department of Public Safety.
Every fried Russian tank and dead soldier drives home the point that superpowers can no longer dominate simply because they have more troops and weapons.
Inside the volunteer effort to save the stranded men and women who worked with the U.S. military
The former Texas congressman and presidential candidate says his goal was to get people to think about freedom.
Spanning many professions and political affiliations, the signatories to a new letter agree that a NATO-enforced no-fly zone over Ukraine would be a mistake.
Congress continues to allocate funds to produce weapons that the Pentagon itself says it doesn't need.
The idea has gained additional adherents, and there are various proposals on how to implement it.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has barred men aged 18-60 from leaving the country.
"If I do my job right, you should barely know I'm here."
Economist Timur Kuran's excellent idea to bolster Ukraine's defense.
The drop in public trust has finally come for the Pentagon too.
“Defend the Guard” laws would keep state troops out of conflicts that Congress hasn’t authorized.
Multiple children died in the raid, but so did the leader of ISIS—which makes the operation “successful” in the Pentagon’s book.
Surveillance clearly shows children nearby as strike was called on man mistaken for a terrorist.
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