America's Involvement in Ukraine Increasingly Looks Like War
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.
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.
Our drones still patrol the skies, and our tax dollars will be paying off the costs of failed nation-building for decades.
A new, heavily investigated report shows a Pentagon uninterested in correcting its deadly errors.
But those numbers don’t include Afghanistan, and that’s a problem.
We can't afford to keep funding defense contractors' cost overruns.
The dog died after the man went to jail for exercising his First Amendment rights.
Police are supposed to be part of a community, not an occupying military force armed to the teeth.
The bloody, tumultuous withdrawal from Afghanistan was a predictable disaster. It was also an incredible, surprising anti-war victory.
That would have been a huge mistake.
Why is registration for involuntary servitude still a thing?
Multiple military authorizations are still intact and we've still got troops in Iraq and elsewhere. And that's not even counting the drone strikes.
Seven children were among the 10 killed.
An independent investigation hasn't turned up terrorist ties or explosives.
The U.S. did not leave behind a safe and stable situation, but it was never capable of creating one.
There will likely never be a full accounting of the war's cost, but as much as $600 billion might have simply vanished due to waste, fraud, and incompetence.
Historian Stephen Wertheim says two decades of failed wars have finally made America more likely to embrace military restraint.
Shameful scenes like those in Kabul don’t have to happen if we avoid military interventions.
In an interview, the Michigan Republican explains what he learned in Kabul, why Tucker Carlson is wrong about Afghan refugees, and how the 20-year occupation was an "abject failure."
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Howard Bailey spent years serving his country, supporting his family, and running two small businesses. Then he got kicked out of the country.
The deadly Sunday explosion is a reminder of the hundreds of civilians U.S. strikes have killed in Afghanistan.
The Pentagon says 12 Americans were killed and 15 more wounded in a pair of suicide attacks near the Kabul airport. At least 60 Afghans died as well.
Nativists like J.D. Vance warn that we need to be "properly vetting" the Afghans coming to the U.S., neglecting to mention just how safe these people are.
After a nearly 20-year occupation, this was one inevitable outcome.
The same institution that's unable to run the Postal Service or Amtrak orchestrated our invasion and withdrawal of Afghanistan.
The final price tag could eventually exceed $6 trillion, and American taxpayers will be paying the tab when the 50th anniversary of 9/11 arrives.
Why did it take presidents so long to realize this?