Primacy comes at a human cost and drones are only the latest lie sold to the public that America can project force in far-away places in a precise and surgical fashion that limits civilian casualties.
Category: United States
A Realist Take on Vaccination Mandates
Now is a fair time to question how much civil liberties will matter in the growing absence of survival.
Will Great Power Competition Doom the WTO?
The dispute over the WTO’s interpretation of a "public body" represents a more fundamental question of whether the WTO system can handle the state capitalism of China.
What is the Coast Guard Up To?
It is clear from the pattern of increased deployment to contested waters that the Coast Guard is increasingly leaning into serving as a military force.
A Human Rights Foreign Policy Demands Dumping the Saudis
President Biden recently approved a $650 million sale of air-to-air missiles to Saudi Arabia in a complete reversal of his February announcement. This comes not long after the administration announced a $500 million contract with Saudi Arabia in September, providing the Arab nation with military support and maintenance of its Apache and Black Hawk attack helicopters.
Is the “Restraint Revolution” Really Happening?
Interventionists, of course, will inflate the threat to the liberal world order posed by restraint advocates in order to maintain a consolidated establishment in the face of a cumulative intellectual opponent.
How Will These Men Change American Immigration Policy?
Their decisions might transform relations between the US and countries where many of the US’s undocumented immigrants tend to come from. For those interested in immigration and American foreign politics, Chris Magnus and Ed Gonzalez are men to keep an eye on.
Crackpot Realism: Not Everything is a Wrestling Match with China
The anecdote to this current ‘crackpot era’ is actual realism and restraint when it comes to China. This means not succumbing to the belief that this competition is a zero-sum contest that will determine the fate of liberalism or falling for romantic Orientalist narratives that situate China-US competition in a grand arc of history.
Explainer: What is the NDAA?
The NDAA is the country’s annual defense spending authorization bill. But what exactly is in the NDAA? How does it work? And why does it matter?
3 Questions with Andrew Bacevich, Quincy Institute President
"Today's China does not remotely compare to the USSR of the 1950s and 1960s. No doubt the PRC is a competitor. But the terms of the competition are radically different from what they were during the Cold War."
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