Security Assistance

Certain guidelines can help in navigating the challenges of creating a more prominent and consistent role for those who stand to gain or lose most.

Biden pledged a foreign policy that would restore U.S. moral leadership. Ending U.S. complicity in human rights abuses, civilian harm, and humanitarian crises through the structural…

The international community should ensure Chad’s military participation in countering terrorism does not come at the expense of freedoms for its citizens.

With an influx of international security aid has come diplomatic cover for government corruption, impunity, and the consolidation of power.

Legislation would improve US support to rights defenders, journalists, and marginalized groups fighting authoritarian abuses of emergency powers abroad.

Guardrails in providing security assistance and arms exports don’t just protect human rights but also advance national security.

The US government requires more empirical evidence for aid to help improve livelihoods abroad than for financing weapons used to destroy them.

Mark Paoletta, the general counsel at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), needs to recuse himself from ongoing inquiries into the Trump administration’s withholding of…

In addition to the larger implications GAO's decision has for the Senate impeachment trial, a close reading of yesterday's report provides some important new insights.

Just Security has viewed unredacted emails, which tell the behind-the-scenes story of the defense and budget officials who had to carry out the president’s unexplained hold on…

The Pentagon warned the White House over the summer that if the Ukraine funding wasn’t released by August 6, DoD would be at risk of violating the law.

For Trump, congressionally appropriated taxpayer dollars are his to do with as he pleases.