foreign-policy
U.S. Senate in bipartisan vote repeals decades-old Iraq war authorizations
'For too long, Congress has ceded to the executive branch its constitutionally proscribed role in authorizing military force and declaring war,' U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., said.
The Panama Canal Treaties were Carter’s biggest foreign policy win | Bruce Ledewitz
They were not only Carter’s greatest achievement, they were a great achievement of a very different America.
Tanks and what they mean for the Ukraine War’s endgame | John A. Nagl
The impact of the Abrams and Leopards tanks from the U.S. and Germany should hasten the end of the fighting, at least in the east.
The Russia-Ukraine War ends when Russia quits | Opinion
Ukraine’s military has been lethal against Russian forces, but that won’t end the war.
A monarch dies in the new century and a nation clatters on | Opinion
In a moment with little to say, eloquence must suffice.
With counter-offensive, a change of momentum in Ukraine | Opinion
The Russian troops exposed in Kherson are Ukraine’s best chance to knock the support out from under Putin and perhaps bring the war to an end.
Brittney Griner will be released in about 30 days, not 9 years | Michael Coard
International law regarding prisoner swaps doesn’t apply until a person is formally sentenced, which occurred on Aug. 4.
What will the next generation of military leaders learn from our years of upheaval? | Opinion
From the pandemic to Jan. 6 and the Ukraine War, there has been no shortage of lessons.
Mastriano-penned 2002 paper justifying civilian casualties raises eyebrows among war scholars
The GOP gov hopeful, a vet, argued that the U.S. military’s 'hypersensitivity' to civilian deaths is an 'enormous weakness.'
Biden to ask Congress for more Ukraine aid after earlier U.S. funding runs dry
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is preparing to ask Congress for billions more in aid to Ukraine as the war shifts to the Eastern regions of the country, following Russia’s failure to take the capital city of Kyiv. “I’m asking the Defense Department to put together what they think we need,” Biden said this week. […]
A pro-Putin president of France? Quelle horreur | Dick Polman
Are the voters in France as stupid or oblivious as the fatal plurality of Americans were in 2016? Vladimir Putin is counting on it.
The Butchers of Bucha will never face justice. That’s the lesson of history | Opinion
True justice only comes when perpetrators admit to their acts and lay out for courts and for history the crimes they committed.