Brace yourself: George W. Bush's former attorney general, Alberto Gonzales, is arguing publicly that the Obama administration's drone war exceeds legal limits on executive authority. As anyone with a memory of Gonzales's tenure under Bush knows, this is more than a...

A recent report from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace advocates several policy recommendations which aim to rectify the "threat" that a rising China poses to "the foundations of the U.S.-backed global order." Traditional strategies of "containment," as...

Again, military officials in the Pentagon are insisting on cutting superfluous weapons programs that are wasting billions of taxpayer dollars, but Congress refuses to cut because the defense corporations that line their campaign pockets want the money to keep coming...

Despite Obama's promise in last week's State of the Union address that he will veto any bill that heaps additional sanctions on Iran while the interim agreement is still in place, hawks in the House of Representatives are still pushing for it. Indeed, a mixture of...

In the policy and think tank worlds, we're told Obama's "pivot" to Asia is essential for America's national interests and that, indeed, continued U.S. military presence throughout the Asia Pacific region is vital for both the U.S. and its allies. U.S. allies need to...

Two recent reports from Foreign Policy reveal that there is routine corruption at the Defense Department and that it even extends to covering up evidence of war crimes. First, from Gordon Lubold, an article based on a July 2013 report compiled by the Defense...

If you say it out loud, it seems too preposterous to be true. Four high-profile former government officials are getting paid by an Iranian dissident group that until 2012 was an officially designated terrorist organization to publicly oppose the Obama administration's...

Catherine Traywick at Foreign Policy explains how the U.S. government and the (U.S.-backed) Philippines government exploited the U.S. military's disaster response to the recent typhoon in order to justify more U.S. troops to be stationed at more U.S. bases in the...

Colin Dueck, writing in Foreign Affairs, argues that Rand Paul's foreign policy does not seem to be on the ascendency, as some have assessed. Not only does the GOP establishment oppose Paul's less interventionist take on national security policy, but even the...