Military

Any other challenge will be exponentially harder to address as long as authoritarian leaders and the militarized systems that support them have free rein.

What are the president’s authorities as commander-in-chief to “combat” the national security threats posed by the climate crisis?

Given the historical significance of this moment and the alternatives for commemorating real, heroism, Congress has a moral and practical obligation to act.

Issues at stake include militarization of law enforcement, civilian casualties, military base renaming, arms transfers, and more.

"The key question is whether Miller’s move will actually increase civilian oversight of Special Operations Forces."

Will the military, having violated democratic norms, work with a civilian-led government to bring the country back to rule of law and peaceful development?

The Sri Lankan Civil War constitutes an unprecedented case in terms of the number of people who were framed as human shields and the mobilization of prominent human rights…

Conspicuously absent from policy and planning documents about great power conflict is a clear-eyed assessment of the likely human costs of such a conflict or considerations for…

AFRICOM insists its aim is to ‘degrade’ al-Shabaab. But the US military campaign is taking a heavy toll on civilians and civilian infrastructure.

Leading with a heavy military response, particularly when government partners are repressive, ultimately makes things worse. The need for a new approach is clear. It should focus…

"The Pentagon’s senior officials should emphasize that the military must never receive a self-interested order about who has won an election."

Survivors of the largest single massacre in modern Latin American history want him charged for failure to comply with a judicial order for documents.