See more news and interviews on the recent Ugandan intervention here.

The dramatic expansion of drone wars in various countries targeted by the US national security state, has at least in part been predicated on this notion that drones are "precision" killers and we have the ability to target single individuals instead of land ground...

Paul Pillar is one of the most astute thinkers on foreign policy around and there is much on which he and I agree. But his latest blog post runs far afoul from his usual incisive, realist analysis and betrays the spirit of his magazine's blog which bears the name...

I wrote recently about Herman Cain's apparent cluelessness about foreign policy (among other things). He derided so-called "gotcha questions" like "who is the president of Uzbekistan?" He basically said he didn't know, didn't need to know, and didn't even need to know...

Ron Paul has a plan: cut $1 trillion from the federal budget, defund the wars and "foreign aid," and cut the president's pay to $39,336 — which is, as Politico points out, "a level that the Paul document notes is 'approximately equal to the median personal income of...

The estimable Angela Keaton crystallized the war in her last post (below). The war becomes difficult for the establishment to talk about when it is presented as it is by the video of injured Iraqi children. They can't inject their technocratic policy-wonkery, and even...