Department of Defense (DoD)

Why did Israel, and then the United States, decide to attack Iran now, even as U.S.-Iranian negotiations sputtered along?

"An alarming escalation of the president's efforts to use the military as a domestic police force. Based on currently available information, it appears to be illegal, as well"

"Congress has been far more clear than is widely believed about what its view is..."

"The state of California, however, has not yet raised this point in the ongoing litigation. That is a missed opportunity ...."

Congress should pass legislation to give U.S. service members the tools and the authority to repair their own equipment.

If the Trump administration wants to end wasteful Pentagon spending, it should reform the many faltering weapons programs and review its contractor ecosystem.

NSPM-4 creates a military area that is twice the size of Washington, D.C. and expands the military’s role in stopping cross-border migration.

A range of federal laws, including the Espionage Act and laws against the destruction of government records, could apply in this case.

I argued the Holtzman case. Nothing in Holtzman v. Schlesinger suggests that the military, acting under Presidential instructions, is empowered to ignore court orders.

This unprecedented purge of the nation’s top brass suggests that Trump may attempt to fill these roles with officers he perceives as loyal.

The effort to purge all trans people from the military is not merely a repeat of the struggle that played out during the first Trump administration; it is an attack of a different…

Sending anyone from the United States to Guantanamo raises a host of legal, moral, and policy questions.