The ongoing costs of global empire
America’s longest war is over, so we are told. But America continues to maintain a global military presence that would be the envy of history’s greatest imperial powers. As Cato’s…
The staggering cost of endless wars
While President Biden wrestles with the fallout from the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, the task of calculating just how much money American taxpayers have spent on the two decade-old global…
Afghanistan approaches collapse
The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan is proceeding as planned, apparently bringing to a close the nation’s longest foreign war. What’s replacing U.S. forces are scenes eerily reminiscent to those that…