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U.S. President Donald Trump touches the arms of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford and U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis while delivering remarks during a meeting with military leaders in the Cabinet Room on October 23, 2018 in Washington, DC.

Trump Loved “His Generals”—Until He Got To Know Them

The caricature of a “a gruff, tough-guy persona" with powerful toys lay at the heart of the contradiction Trump promised as a candidate in 2016.
Silhouettes of soldiers on a transgender flag

The Mattis Transgender Policy Will Go Into Effect Next Friday

Last Tuesday, in response to a government motion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit altered its previous schedule and ordered the Clerk to issue the…
The USS John S. McCain conducts a routine patrol in the South China Sea, Jan. 22, 2017, against a pink and purple sky.

The South China Sea’s Muddled and Increasingly Militarized Future

The Chinese Air Force recently landed a number of bombers on a heavily disputed “island” in the South China Sea. The military landings follow the placement of three anti-ship…

What the Law of Military Obedience Can (and Can’t) Do–What Happens if a President’s Orders are Unlawful?

A proposal to bring back waterboarding and a “hell of a lot worse.” The possible suggestion that members of the military should intentionally target terrorists’ civilian…

So Far, Trump’s Border Guard Deployment Expected to Cost $180 Million

Because it was unsuccessful securing the amount of funding it wanted to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, the Trump administration is moving ahead with its plan to deploy…

If Mattis Meant to Assert Self-Defense for the Syria Strike, He Was Wrong

Since the United States conducted a military strike on various targets associated with the Syrian government’s chemical weapons program last week, prominent voices in the legal…

Exclusive: Mattis Drafting Specific Options for Using Defense Dollars to Pay for Trump’s Wall

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis feels that, at the very least, he owes Trump options for how the military could build the border wall, but all of them are fraught with political and…
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