In its most recent National Defense Strategy, the U.S. Department of Defense declared a policy of “integrated deterrence” against the People’s Republic of China, its primary “pacing challenge.” The document defined “integrated deterrence” as: "...working seamlessly...
Foreign Policy
In Defense of Inaction
by Brad Pearce | Mar 27, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism
On March 17, The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by a woman named Mary Anastasia O’Grady titled, “Giving up on Haiti Isn’t a U.S. Option.” She argues, in short, that Americans don’t have a choice but to continue doing all the things that have failed in the past...
Is America a Rogue Superpower?
by Ted Snider | Mar 27, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
“Unipolar” used to mean that the United States was, at least in theory, alone in leading the world. Now “unipolar” means that the United States is alone and isolated in opposition to the world. In global affairs, a hegemon is a nation that leads because it has the...
Collateral Murder 2.0
by Kym Robinson | Mar 26, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
When the footage of Reuters journalists and civilians were Wikileaked to the world, there was outrage. A shame exhibited by some in the American government caused them to reel from the crime that had been exposed, to downplay the prevalence of such murders, and...
Who’s the Real Foreign-Policy Realist?
by Sheldon Richman | Mar 22, 2024 | Blog, Foreign Policy
The establishment debate over foreign policy isn't between realists and whatever their opponents call themselves. It's a debate over who's more realistic. It reminds me of the debate between the Federalists and Antifederalists. No one wanted to be considered against...
TGIF: Leave TikTok Alone
by Sheldon Richman | Mar 22, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
This is America, last I checked. Surely, the government would not force the sale of a social-media company or ban its app from the Google and Apple stores. Would it? Well, yes, it would, could (perhaps), and might. A bill in Congress, backed by the government's...
CIA Further Discredits ‘Uyghur Genocide’ by Admitting Covert Influence Campaign
by Patrick Macfarlane | Mar 21, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On March 14, Reuters released a bombshell report: in 2019 the Donald Trump White House began a clandestine CIA influence campaign to smear China's international reputation. According to three former U.S. officials with direct knowledge, “the CIA created a small team...
Neocon Charlie Sykes’ Tortured Analogies, Past and Present
by Brandan P. Buck | Mar 21, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, History
There is a booming op-ed industry that peddles tortured World War II analogies. The latest offering from its tired assembly line was published by Politico and penned by unreconstructed neoconservative Charlie Sykes. As with other offerings in recent years (and indeed,...