A fledgling armistice endangers the country’s 20-year experiment in democratic state-building.

America’s gendered approach to “national security” means preparing for wars, not pandemics.

The bungled response to a coronavirus outbreak on an aircraft carrier reveals a deeper crisis among the president's obsequious military appointees.

Trump, Biden, and other politicians are adopting military rhetoric to comfort Americans. But what they’re really saying is cause for worry.

The president’s capricious fury has weakened the intelligence community’s ability to safeguard our elections.

Trump's planned expansion of his travel ban is part of a broader authoritarian Big Data grab.

He’s called for an end to “forever wars,” but the Afghanistan veteran’s security strategy sounds more like the status quo.

The Afghanistan Papers reflect what we soldiers knew on the ground: "Victory" was always an empty talking point.

The night I partied with the now-disgraced congressman, I learned brazenness and entitlement might have been his best qualities.

As progressives scrutinize Elizabeth Warren's bona fides, her "Green New Military" plan raises hackles of climate activists on the left.

A newly released trove of Iranian intelligence communiqués demonstrates the deeper folly of U.S. adventurism in the Middle East.

Trump's clemencies were not just to exonerate three trigger-pullers, but to excuse all Americans.

The president is shaking down Tokyo and Seoul for billions more in security aid, and testing the foundations of U.S. alliances in Asia.

Armed with the VA's list of discounts and deals, one vet tried to turn the tables and consume this holiday that was consuming him, year after year.

An Afghanistan veteran's struggle with ecology and memory

As an impeachment crisis looms, CIA and FBI veterans are taking a troubling lead in opposing Trump at the ballot box.

The Trump administration is poised to kill another useful treaty that contributes to trans-Atlantic peace.

The progressive pro-Israel group has gone from outsider to political kingmaker—and a target for left-wing activists.

The U.S. didn't give its NATO ally many advance details on the raid that killed the ISIS leader. There may be a good reason why.

In celebrating the death of ISIS's leader, Trump shared his vision of America's goal in the Middle East: loot and plunder.