- May 9, 2016America's lone superpower status is being challenged in regions around the globe -- and the question remains how it will respond.
- February 26, 2016The last 15 years demonstrate that no matter the military strength at your command, war no longer translates into power.
- January 25, 2016It’s no coincidence that Trump, the candidate least in need of money or media attention, has been the biggest critic of America's wars.
- January 20, 2016Fifty-nine-year-old Mary Anne Grady Flores will serve six months for photographing a protest of an airfield in upstate New York where drone pilots are trained and from where missions are carried out.
- December 4, 2015Wars are never quick, cheap or easy: let's acknowledge what a full-scale war in the Middle East would actually mean.
- December 4, 2015Wars are never quick, cheap or easy: Let's acknowledge what a full-scale war in the Middle East would actually mean.
- November 27, 2015Living in America sometimes resembles taking part in a Ponzi scheme, and its likely to get worse before it gets better.
- November 16, 2015At $109 billion, the US reconstruction program in Afghanistan is already, in today's dollars, larger than the Marshall Plan, and still the country is in a shambles.
- October 17, 2015The phrase “the fog of war” stands in for the inability of commanders to truly grasp what’s happening in the chaos of battle. Perhaps it’s time to introduce a companion phrase.
- October 14, 2015Andrew Bacevich opines on why Washington's efforts to support foreign armies keep falling apart.