Budget Battles
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Republicans Want Strings Attached to California Disaster Aid
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Biden Goes Out With a Bang in the Jobs Market
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Trump Privately Pushes Senators for ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’
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Trump Considers Declaring National Emergency for Tariff Rollout
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Trump Unloads: Grievances, Greenland and the Gulf of Mexico
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Republicans Divided Over How to Pass Trump’s Agenda
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Trump Pushes Johnson to Victory as Speaker
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As Trump Announces Afghanistan Strategy, Here’s What the War Has Cost
President Trump will deliver his first prime-time address to the nation at 9 p.m. EDT tonight and is expected to announce that he’s sending thousands more U.S. troops to Afghanistan. If that is the...
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Trump Has Just Raised the Stakes With Moscow and Tehran in Three Risky Moves
President Trump made three big moves on Syria and Iran this week. They crisscross and contradict one another, but the administration’s game plan in the Middle East just got a lot clearer.
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Sending More Troops to Afghanistan Would Be a Historic Mistake
By Marc JoffeEarlier this month, ISIS claimed to have taken Tora Bora, Osama bin Laden’s old hideout in Afghanistan. The Taliban immediately denied ISIS’s claim, insisting that it still held the area. But, in...
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Trump’s Fly-by-Night Mideast ‘Policy’ Embraces the Saudi’s New Crown Prince
It’s not likely that President Trump knew what he was getting into when he embraced the Saudis as the rightful leaders of the Islamic world and the war on terror during his visit to Riyadh last month...
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How Will We Pay the $6 Trillion Bill for the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?
By Linda J. Bilmes, The ConversationOn Memorial Day, we pay respects to the fallen from past wars – including the more than one million American soldiers killed in the Civil War, World Wars I and II, Korea and Vietnam. Yet the nation’s...
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Here's How Much the 'Mother of All Bombs' Costs
The United States Defense Department likes to show off. After proving it can move with the quick strike capability of a cobra as it did when it launched 59 tomahawk missiles at a Syrian airfield ,...
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Why The US Can't Just Take Out Assad
By David Alpher, The ConversationThe Trump administration has done an abrupt about-face on Syria, contradicting its own nascent foreign policy . Within 24 hours, it went from calling out the Assad regime for using chemical weapons...
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Team Trump Still in Search of a Coherent Syria Policy
By Rob GarverMore than 48 hours after President Trump ordered a missile assault on a Syrian government airbase as retaliation for a chemical weapons attack that killed dozens of civilians in the town of Idlib,...
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Trump Just Strengthened His Hand on Defense Spending
By Eric PianinIn the wake of U.S. missile strikes against Syria, President Trump’s call for huge increase in defense spending is suddenly looking more likely to succeed.
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Here's What Firing 59 Tomahawk Missiles at Syria's Airfield Cost
Sarin gas is a horrible nerve agent that should never be used on human beings. Even if one doesn't die from exposure, there could be permanent damage to the nervous system after even a short...
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How Iran Is Taking Over the Middle East
Two weeks ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged Congress to ensure the U.S. would not be soft on Iran . Then, 47 Republican senators wrote to the Iranian leadership to tell them that...
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Why Congress Should Simply Bag the War Powers Debate
By Eric PianinYears from now, historians may be scratching their heads and asking why it was that Congress refused to grant President Obama specific new war powers to carry out a critical military campaign against...
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How U.S. Drones Can Find and Demolish ISIS
By Arthur Herman and William Luti, Defense OneAs Defense Secretary Ashton Carter settles into office , a formidable challenge awaits him: eradicating the menace of the Islamic State, or ISIS, in Syria and Iraq. In his Senate confirmation hearing...
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How ISIS Recruiters Target U.S. Immigrants
By Simon Hankinson, The Fiscal TimesIn what is starting to seem like a slow, steady drip of ‘foreign fighter’ cases, six U.S. residents of Bosnian origin were arrested in early February and charged with conspiring to provide material...
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Why We Have to Worry About ISIS South of the Border
By Kevin Baron, Defense OneA top US commander warns Caribbean and South American countries are unable to track 100 foreign fighters that could return from Syria. With little ability to track and monitor foreign fighters when...