Yoo-surping Power for the Executive Branch by Ivan Eland More memos have recently surfaced that were written early in the Bush administration by John C. Yoo from the Justice Department’s […]
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Tag: Foreign Policy & Military & War
Wouldn't it be great if wars could be fought just by the assholes who started them? – The Postman
Putting Lipstick on a Pig: More Doublespeak on the Situation in Iraq
Putting Lipstick on a Pig: More Doublespeak on the Situation in Iraq by Ivan Eland Some things never change. In a continuation of the Bush administration’s Orwellian doublespeak on the […]
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Key to Getting a More Restrained Foreign Policy: Modify Defense Subcontracting?
Key to Getting a More Restrained Foreign Policy: Modify Defense Subcontracting? by Ivan Eland During the early days of the Clinton administration, Colin Powell, then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs […]
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Truncating the Antecedents
Truncating the Antecedents: How Americans Have Been Misled about World War II by Robert Higgs Whereas historians obsessively trace every event’s causal lineage further and further into the past, nonhistorians […]
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Five years of war: Let the country divide, and get out
Five years of war: Let the country divide, and get out by Ivan Eland As the fifth anniversary of the United States’ second-longest (next to Vietnam) and second-costliest (next to […]
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Happy Birthday, DHS!
Happy Birthday, DHS! by Ivan Eland The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) just turned five years old. It seems like it was born just yesterday. The department’s growing pains have […]
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Military Spending / GDP = Nonsense for Budget Policy Making
Military Spending / GDP = Nonsense for Budget Policy Making by Robert Higgs If we were inclined to borrow a phrase from Ronald Reagan, we might reproach the Pentagon bigwigs […]
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No More Pentagon Budget Games
No More Pentagon Budget Games: Real security needs, not an arbitrary baseline, should drive the numbers by Robert Higgs Oakland, Calif.—Despite his many shortcomings, former President Jimmy Carter had one […]
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Accepting Reality Is No Vice, and Being Oblivious Is No Virtue
Accepting Reality Is No Vice, and Being Oblivious Is No Virtue by Ivan Eland America is an amazing place—one of the wealthiest and freest nations on earth. Yet because Europe […]
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The Same Old Cuba
The Same Old Cuba by Alvaro Vargas Llosa WASHINGTON—Raul Castro has killed all hope that a transition to the rule of law and a market economy will start anytime soon […]
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