Trump’s foreign policy advisers are plainly unhinged. But the old establishment isn’t much better.
Bush-Era Foreign Policy Delusions Are Alive and Well in 2017
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Korean Women Take On Trump
As the Trump administration tries to do damage control in Asia, Korean women are leading a movement to re-define their country’s relationship with Washington.
‘Everyone Has the Right to Live on Their Island. Why Not Us?’
Thousands of miles from Standing Rock, in the Indian Ocean, another indigenous group understands what it’s like to be displaced and ignored by the U.S. government.
Duterte vs. Washington’s Cold War System
Though better known for his brutal war on drugs at home, the Philippine leader’s volatile, one-man diplomacy could up-end 70 years of U.S. dominance in East Asia.
The U.S. Is Militarizing the Pacific — and Not Taking Questions
Hawaii’s members of Congress sit at the linchpin of a huge realignment of U.S. military power. Good luck getting them to talk about it.
Donald Trump: Foreign Policy’s Useful Idiot?
It might take someone of Trump’s vapid visibility to drive home the point that “world’s policeman” is not a viable role for the U.S. to play.
The U.S. Has an Empire of Bases in the Middle East — and It’s Not Making Anyone Safer
Thirty-six years into the U.S. base build-up in the Greater Middle East, military force has failed as a strategy for controlling the region, no less defeating terrorist organizations.
Excuse the Middle-East for Resenting Tyranny
Democracy might not be for everyone, but, like Americans, the Middle East just wants to be free.
Inside the U.S. Drone War on the Islamic State
How the Pentagon is using the “ISIS crisis” to expand its footprint in the Horn of Africa.
Ashton Carter’s Plan to Expand U.S. Military Presence Across the Globe Even Further
As if the current 662 U.S.military bases around the world from which air strikes can be launched aren’t enough.