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…
Oregon takes steps to limit police militarization
Oregon lawmakers took a step toward curbing the increased militarization of law enforcement, enacting legislation that bars police from acquiring certain military surplus items for department use. The Tenth Amendment…
Pentagon Says it’s on Track to Pass an Audit – in 2028
The Department of Defense has yet to pass an independent audit of its books, having failed three times to assemble balance sheets that can pass muster. But the DoD is…
End, Don’t Mend, the AUMF
There are fresh murmurings in official Washington that the Biden administration and some congressional leaders want to “update” the 20-year-old congressional Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) to…
Pentagon Fails Another Financial Audit, but Urges Patience as it Gets its Books in Order
The Department of Defense has failed yet another financial audit, the third since such audits began in 2018. But according to the Pentagon’s comptroller, Thomas Harker, there is hope the…
Pentagon IG: Unresolved Problems are Costing Money, and Making it Harder to Save Lives
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. The Pentagon’s inspector general has issued an annual review of unresolved issues at the department and found the backlog – and cost, in…
House Republican Proposal Would Give Future Presidents More Power to Conduct Endless Wars
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. A years-long congressional effort to reign-in a president’s ability to commit U.S. forces to foreign action without first consulting Congress has continually fallen…
Fighting the Foreign Policy “Blob” to end our Endless Wars
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. Cato Institute Senior Fellow Doug Bandow writes that the leading major party presidential candidates have a golden opportunity to put the nation’s bloody-minded…
Feds Charge Whistle Blower With Espionage
Article from Reason by Scott Shackford. A former Air Force intelligence officer has been arrested and charged with espionagefor leaking information to the press detailing how the U.S. government uses armed drones…
Maryland Raises Tobacco Purchase Age With Military Exception
Article from The Military Times by J.D. Simkins. The Maryland General Assembly passed a bill Wednesday that will raise the legal age to purchase tobacco products to 21. The legislation,…
