Military

President Biden hoped for a more stable and predictable relationship with Russia. Time to deal with reality instead.

Can the President use force to protect Taiwan in the "national interest" without congressional authorization?

In the current security crisis and regional context, such a response may amount to meeting a threat to peace with appeasement and bribery.

Reflections in the wake of Afghanistan.

"There are certainly unique circumstances to the Kabul strike, but if we miss the bigger lessons, we only invite further tragedy. "

A deep analysis of the broader system in which the August 29 Kabul drone strike is situated, by top expert on civilian casualties and lead author of several Department of Defense…

"It is simply not credible that the entire investigative report must be withheld in order to protect (as one imagines the claim) sources and methods of intelligence-gathering."

The question to ask is not what he should have done differently, but what, if anything, his life suggests we should do differently.

Suspending certain articles while retaining parts of the transitional deal cloaks a unilateral power-grab as merely a course correction.

After mass nonviolent protests, look out for arrests of opponents, prison releases of Islamists, and actions by a key paramilitary unit.

A Security Council divided over rights violations by Russian paramilitaries must maintain civilian protection as a priority.

Rather than rebrand painfully flawed approaches, the US must heed the calls and ideas of civil society, academics, and practitioners.