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They say the U.S. is pivoting to other conflicts, but the Pentagon hasn't exactly left the Middle East and North Africa behind.
Faced with White House opposition, Sanders withdrew a resolution that would've challenged U.S. involvement in the Yemeni Civil War.
The Pentagon is seeking to corroborate those reports.
Accountability, diplomacy, and planning are essential for preventing a forever proxy war.
Antiwar.com's Scott Horton and former Army Lt. Col. Daniel Davis warn about the grave danger of escalating the war in Ukraine
Progressives shouldn't be ashamed of being anti-war.
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If the combat mission is over in the Middle East, Biden should follow—and make permanent—more cautious drone guidelines.
Politicians have turned the unthinkable into a real threat for which you should prepare.
Vladimir Putin's annexation plan is indefensible on both legal and moral grounds. Some of the reasons why have broader implications for normative theories of secession and self-determination.
Author Ward Wilson advocates eliminating nuclear weapons. Defense consultant Peter Huessy says that's unrealistic.
It's the economics of energy production that make petrostates more trigger-happy, Emma Ashford argues in Oil, the State, and War.
It should also lead Western nations to grant asylum to Russian soldiers who surrender or desert, and those who evade the military draft.
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Government officials broke the world, and we’re all paying the price.
So far, U.S. support for Ukraine hasn’t had any consequences for us. We shouldn’t expect it to always be that way.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that Russians should "live in their own world until they change their philosophy." But keeping Russians isolated plays into Putin's hands.
"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.
One year after the U.S. withdrawal, tens of thousands of Afghans who assisted American forces are still stuck under Taliban rule.
But thousands of Afghans who helped U.S. forces are still stuck in Afghanistan under Taliban rule.
As appalling as the Russian foreign minister’s admission is, it does not change the reasons to avoid a war with Moscow.
The last thing the U.S. should be doing is poking a nuclear bear.
The Biden administration is reportedly considering a security agreement that would further intertwine the U.S. with an authoritarian, untrustworthy regime.
"If government is big enough to give you anything, it's big enough to take everything away from you."
He claims he'll be "the first president to visit the Middle East since 9/11 without U.S. troops engaged in a combat mission there." But that's not true.
Ukrainians aren't giving up, but some international supporters are growing pessimistic.
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.
But despotic brutality is once again pushing millions to the brink of starvation.
New SIGAR findings shine a light on America’s dysfunctional efforts to train the Afghan National Police, which “actually contributed to increasing criminality” in Afghanistan.
Early and unrealistic hopes for a quick victory by Ukraine's forces over invading Russian troops have faded as the reality of an extended conflict sets in.
In just over a month, the Uniting for Ukraine private sponsorship program has attracted huge support.
Presidents once treated congressional authorization as a requirement for the U.S. to enter conflicts. What went wrong?
It signals that many in Congress still condemn America's role in the war and actions from the president that lack proper authorization.
Lockdowns, trade disputes, and warfare make the next meal once again a matter of concern.
There’s no endpoint in sight to a war that threatens widespread consequences.
International tensions empower politicians seeking to force the unwilling into government service.
Like AUMFs before it, Rep. Adam Kinzinger’s proposed authorization would lead to less transparency in conflicts and more unilateral decision making.
Instituting a "no-fly" zone would be the U.S. "essentially going to war with Russia."
Russia’s threats to reach into Transnistria could be a cheap distraction or an expansion of the conflict.
Mourn the end of a too-brief interlude of relative peace and prosperity.
This war, like all wars, will invigorate the state and be deadly to liberty.
But politicians like Sen. Chris Coons are still flirting with the idea of direct American military intervention.
Which boycotts, cancellations, and sanctions are defensible and well-targeted against the state actors who are responsible for the attack on Ukraine?
Putin and other Russian leaders are likely guilty of massive war crimes. And there is real, though limited, value to pursuing the issue.
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