Reprinted from Responsible Statecraft (Quincy Institute) with permission.A coalition of both conservative and progressive foreign policy organizations have delivered a letter to the White House, asking the president to pursue a broad diplomatic path with the Russians...
Loosened Rules on Drone Strikes Recall Vietnam ‘Body Counts’ (video)
From Responsible Statecraft: Investigative journalist, author, and Iraq veteran Jack Murphy sat down with the Quincy Institute’s Adam Weinstein to talk about U.S. drone strikes in Afghanistan, and how loosened rules of engagement led to an accelerated number of...
RIP: Mark Perry, an Extraordinary Journalist in Extraordinary Times
Our colleague and friend Mark Perry passed away today after a battle with lung cancer, his son Cal Perry announced on Twitter earlier this morning. It is devastating news to so many because Perry had been a staple in Washington foreign policy/military journalism and...
Panel: What’s a State-Sponsored Assassination Between Friends? Reckoning With the Murder of Jamal Khashoggi (video)
On the eve of the second anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, QI and Showtime Documentary Films hosted a discussion about the implications of the assassination for U.S.-Saudi relations past, present, and future. The discussion also offered a sneak peak at...
Debate ‘Train Wreck’ Shows US in No Position To Lecture the World
Reprinted from Responsible Statecraft (Quincy Institute) with permission.It was called ‘“the worst debate in American history” by more than one pundit and cable news anchor.The graphic descriptions of Tuesday night’s presidential debate between incumbent Donald Trump...
10 Foreign Policy Questions That Should Be Asked at the Presidential Debate (But Probably Won’t)
Reprinted from Responsible Statecraft (Quincy Institute) with permission.Tuesday’s highly anticipated debate between President Trump and Democratic challenger Vice President Joe Biden is expected to delve into several broad topics critical to today’s...
Let’s Do the Pentagon Time Warp Again
From The American Conservative:The Pentagon building just over the river from Washington D.C. is really an architectural marvel, and if there was any federal office space that reflected the true nature of its purpose, this 6.6 million square foot labyrinth, made up of...
Navy Will Dump Beloved Capt. Crozier After All
From The American Conservative:Maybe the Navy was just buying time or maybe they got more information, but according to reports the service is not going to reinstate Capt. Brett Crozier to his command of the USS Roosevelt.It also looks like, in order to take politics...
‘Mad Dog’ Mattis Rips Into Trump’s Photo Op and Troop Deployment Threat
From The American Conservative:President Trump’s former Secretary of Defense James Mattis has taken umbrage with the current Secretary of Defense’s use of the term “battlespace” referring to a federal security crackdown to recent...
General Milley Checks on His Troops… On the Streets of D.C.
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.There is nothing more cringe than a political photo op, but when the President of the United States sends his Secretary of Defense and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff out onto the streets during political protests...


