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Voters: The military makes us feel safe but not sure it’s worth a trillion
There is a growing disconnect between how American voters think about safety and how Washington spends money in the name of national security….
Why can’t the US get Southeast Asia’s support in the South China Sea
Sunday marked a decade since an Arbitral Tribunal at The Hague handed a near total victory to the Philippines, a U.S. treaty ally,…
Tucker Carlson’s left-right, third party dream
As the establishments of both major parties remain firmly wedded to Washington’s foreign policy consensus, particularly on U.S.-Israel relations, hard ideological factions on…
Obama has a lot to say about everything but his foreign policy
Opening his new Presidential Center in Chicago, Barack Obama once again gave eloquent expression to his faith in the fundamental American values of…
Happy birthday to the ever-expanding national security state
Seventy-nine years ago this month, President Harry Truman signed the National Security Act, which quickly morphed into today’s metastasizing, often abusive, national security…
A new US-Iran war would end where the last one did
For all practical purposes, the U.S.-Iran Memorandum of (Mis)Understanding is over. The dispute over how to manage the Strait of Hormuz in the…
The Houthis are increasingly setting their own agenda
In early July, an Iranian civilian aircraft landed in Houthi-controlled Sana’a, breaching a Saudi air blockade in place for nearly a decade. Then,…
The earthquake sprung Trump’s Venezuela trap
When the Trump administration decided to “run” Venezuela through Acting President Delcy Rodríguez, the aim was to keep things quiet following its January…
Euroskeptics in France, Germany suddenly gain steam in elections
The European reaction to an American pullback from its leading role in continental defense has sparked a drive to coordinate a pan-European response…
When Democrats were smearing socialists over war
In his message to Congress asking for a declaration of war against Germany and thereby bringing the United States into World War I,…
