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March 8, 2013

United States
You Might Have Missed: Threat Inflation, Transparency, and Drone Strikes

James Kitfield, “Outsourcing the Fight Against Terrorism,” National Journal, March 7, 2013. In Iraq and Afghanistan, where U.S. officers honed the tactics they teach here (Baker did several combat t…

Dempsey
Blog Post by Micah Zenko Politics, Power, and Preventive Action

December 1, 2017

Political History and Theory
Ten Historical Anniversaries of Note in 2018

As 2017 comes to a close, here are ten notable historical anniversaries to mark in 2018.

British soldiers marking the anniversary of the armistice that ended WW1.
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

January 23, 2015

International Organizations
Limiting the Security Council Veto in the Face of Mass Atrocities

PARIS — The veto held by the five permanent members (P5) of the UN Security Council is one of the most contentious rules of the United Nations. It was included in the UN Charter of 1945 as the explic…

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius speaks at a session of the UN Security Council on September 19, 2014.
Blog Post by Stewart M. Patrick The Internationalist

April 12, 2012

United States
U.S. Foreign Policy and Inflated Threats

On February 15, General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the House Armed Services Committee: “I can’t impress upon you that in my personal military judgment, formed over th…

Martin Dempsey
Blog Post by Micah Zenko Politics, Power, and Preventive Action

May 9, 2012

United States
A Primer on Military Force

As I’ve written previously, policymakers and pundits have some pretty silly proposals for the use of military force. Whether it’s President Clinton,“[It would] scare the shit out of al Qaeda if sudde…

Army tanks
Blog Post by Micah Zenko Politics, Power, and Preventive Action