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Soldiers

Three Tennessee National Guardsmen walk through a crosswalk in Washington, D.C. | Polaris/Newscom

D.C.

We Don't Need More Federal Intervention in U.S. Cities

The use of government force to achieve political advantage is dangerous and sets a bad precedent.

J.D. Tuccille | 8.27.2025 7:00 AM

Close-up of U.S. Army soldiers' camouflage uniforms. | Cateyeperspective | Dreamstime.com

Military

Brickbat: Tipping the Scale

Charles Oliver | 12.19.2024 4:00 AM

Fort Liberty barracks | Jonas N. Jordan, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Immigration

When a North Carolina Colonel Shot This Utility Worker, Journalists Suggested His Victim Was a Spy

The reaction to Ramzan Daraev’s death is an extreme example of anti-immigrant panic and national security paranoia.

Matthew Petti | 6.6.2024 12:00 PM

President Joe Biden gives a speech at the White House | Oliver Contreras/Sipa USA/Newscom

Foreign Policy

Biden Told Congress U.S. Troops Are Fighting in the Middle East. Now He Says They Aren't.

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.

Fiona Harrigan | 7.11.2022 2:50 PM

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Foreign Policy

Strikes on U.S. Troops Show the Need To Withdraw From Iraq and Syria

Biden rightly stuck to his guns when he defended the long-overdue U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, but he fails to apply the same logic elsewhere.

Fiona Harrigan | 1.13.2022 4:15 PM

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Foreign Policy

On Paper, Biden Is Ending the U.S. Combat Mission in Iraq. He's Actually Leaving American Troops in Danger.

Saying that American troops are in Iraq for "training and advising" and not "combat" might sound nice, but it doesn’t get them out of harm’s way.

Fiona Harrigan | 7.27.2021 4:20 PM

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War

Ronald Bailey Argues that Warbots Could Be More Moral than Human Soldiers

So let slip the robots of war?

Reason Staff | 1.23.2015 1:30 PM

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Policy

Let Slip the Robots of War

Lethal autonomous weapon systems might be more moral than human soldiers.

Ronald Bailey | 1.23.2015 12:01 AM

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Policy

The U.S. Army's Racially Biased Hairstyle Guidelines

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.4.2014 12:38 PM

Policy

Kenyan Police Warn Journalists Over Coverage of Nairobi Mall Attack

There have been reports of looting by soldiers

Reason Staff | 10.24.2013 9:20 AM

Politics

Did MSNBC's Chris Hayes Say Something Terrible When He Said He Was Not Comfortable Calling Fallen Soldiers "Heroes"?

Lucy Steigerwald | 5.29.2012 12:20 PM

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