No, Forever War In Syria Won’t Protect The United States
If the U.S. experience in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria should have told our foreign policy elites anything, it is that Washington can’t resolve distant political problems.
The Syria Controversy Is A Proxy War Over America’s Foreign Policy
James Mattis’s departure highlights the broader legitimation crisis that results from American foreign policy being run without democratic accountability and against popular opinion.
America Is Abdicating Its Role In Global Leadership
A new book by Robert Kagan, ‘The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World,’ argues that the liberal world order is unraveling at a frightening pace, hastened in no small measure by its chief custodian and beneficiary.
America’s Forever War In Afghanistan Has Engulfed A New Generation
Americans born 17 years ago can now enlist to fight in a war that began before they were born. It’s time to end the Afghanistan war.
Why The World No Longer Needs The Cold War’s NATO
The old willingness to ‘pay any price, bear any burden’ is waning. There is no reason we should subsidize others’ luxuries, let alone when we have so many problems at home.
Why Intelligence Agencies’ Abuse Of Power Should Be A Litmus Test For The Right
Why are so many in Washington—even supposed conservatives—so eager to defend our powerful and unelected intelligence agencies?
How The United States Can Start Winning Wars Again
In order to understand what guidance natural law gives us about war and peace in our time, it is first necessary to have some understanding of what ‘natural law’ is.
Interview With David Reaboi On National Security, Syria, And Jazz Music
National security consultant David Reaboi discusses what’s happening in the Middle East and how he thinks the Trump Administration will respond to it.
Why ‘Win And Go Home’ Isn’t Working In Syria
President Trump wanted to declare victory over ISIS in Syria and go home. Well, that’s the trick, isn’t it? It turns out ‘win and go home’ rarely works.
John Bolton Is The National Security Advisor Trump Has Been Waiting For
John Bolton not only shares the president’s views on many foreign policy issues, he has decades of experience in government, politics, and American leadership.
Trump Is Keeping The Bush-Obama Foreign Policy Americans Hated
To Americans tired of military campaigns to social engineer governments in distant lands, Donald Trump suggested he might embrace a less belligerent foreign policy. That’s not happening.
Trump’s Afghanistan Plan Upends His Campaign Promises Against Perpetual War
President Trump’s Afghanistan plan is, above all, a pledge to double down on the bipartisan failures of the last decade and half, making changes only for the worse.
It’s Good For America, Not Russia, To Stop The CIA From Funding Syrian Jihadists
The idea that Russia orchestrated the Trump administration’s decision to end the CIA’s funding of jihadists is totally corrupt and offensive.
Republicans Need A Foreign Policy That’s Neither Isolationist Nor Hawkish
The GOP has struggled to define its foreign policy views, waffling between neoconservatism and anti-interventionism. But we need a third way.
Why I’ve Decided To Break Up With Bill Kristol
His comments since Inauguration Day have disintegrated into a pettiness unbefitting a man of Bill Kristol’s intellectual heft and influence.
Poll Finds DC Is Out Of Touch With Americans On Foreign Policy
When asked if America’s foreign policy since 9/11 has made us more or less safe, a non-dangling-chad majority (51 percent) said ‘less safe.’
Here’s The Foreign Policy Stance That Should Displace Neocons
Liberal interventionism and neoconservatism offer us the same militaristic approaches. It’s time for a new, more thoughtful approach to our foreign policy.
The Battle For The GOP’s Foreign Policy Soul
Sean Hannity and Bret Stephens can duke it out all they want over nativism or neoconservatism in foreign policy, but their world will soon be over.
Foreign Policy Establishment’s Hillary Endorsements Reveal Their True Colors
Nearly all of the U.S foreign policy establishment is now aligned with the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party. That’s not surprising.
Why Donald Trump Can’t Defeat Neocons
Donald Trump’s foreign policy program reminds us that many people are enthusiastic about contradictory nonsense when it seems to break through a persistent impasse.
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