Rumors of War in Ukraine
The rumors of impending war between Russia and Ukraine and getting more insistent. And as they do, the European Union, NATO, and the U.S. are bracing for what may come:…
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…
Lee bill seeks to bring an end to ‘trillion-dollar defense slush funds’
One pricey consequence of the nation’s more than 20 year-long war against terrorism has been the rapid growth of ill-defined, catch-all programs. While items like the “Overseas Contingency Operations” fund…
The litany of waste in Afghanistan
Inside the Special Inspector General’s Report on Afghanistan are examples of how the U.S, government wasted hundreds of millions of dollars on equipment, building projects, and policies. Bloomberg gathered a…
The costs of the endless wars will drag on for decades
The price tag for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were staggering – somewhere in the neighborhood of $2.2 trillion. But we should not forget that those wars were fought…
The ‘Lessons’ from 20 years in Afghanistan
Some members of Congress are calling for investigations into how America’s 20 year military presence in Afghanistan could come to such a shabby end. Any hearings or investigations should begin…
The litany of untruths, half-truths, and outright lies about Afghanistan
We may not know the full story behind why the U.S.-backed Afghan government and its armed forces collapsed in such spectacular fashion. But some things about the nation’s longest war…
The ‘humiliating coda’ to America’s longest war
One of Joe Biden’s selling points during the 2020 presidential campaign was how his decades of foreign policy experience would renew America’s standing in the world. Events of recent days…
Afghanistan collapses
The remarkable collapse of the Afghan government and the scenes of U.S. embassy personnel being shuttled out of the facility in helicopters brings to mind Saigon’s fall in 1975. One…
Some in Congress seek to reclaim their war powers from the presidency
There seems to be a new appreciation among some members of Congress that their branch of government has ceded too much power to the executive over certain areas of foreign…
