New data from Brown University’s Costs of War project sheds light on the never-ending war on terror.that has led to 17 uninterrupted years of conflict, $5.9 trillion in war-fighting costs, drone strikes targeting terror suspects on three continents, and terror-related military operations in 80 sovereign nations.
Read MoreThe left’s grassroots organizing may be the most consequential untapped force for setting U.S. foreign policy right. Ironically, the best way the left can undo the damage of the arms industry’s malign lobbying strategy may be to copy it.
Read MoreCongress hasn’t funded a war since Vietnam, and working-class Americans are footing the bill. Only by ignoring the genuine insecurities Americans face every day can the national security establishment promote increasing military budgets to confront the threat of threats. A November report by the National Defense Strategy Commission shows how it happens.
Read MoreOn New Year’s Eve, the United States Strategic Command tweeted a video — which Navy Captain Brook Dewalt later described as a reassuring message about U.S. military’s “#CombatReadyForce” — showing a B-2 bomber dropping “a pair of conventional Massive Ordnance Penetrators (MOP) at a test range.”
Read MoreWilliam Arkin’s resignation from NBC casts light on the uniformity of national security reporting and its failure to hold the national security establishment accountable.
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