The assassination of nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh is a reminder of how badly the U.S. needs a new approach to Iran. Is Biden up to the task?

Trump’s partial troop withdrawal is cynical and incoherent, but that doesn’t mean it’s wrong.

Tech companies are getting rich by tracking Americans’ movements and then selling the data to various arms of the U.S. military-industrial complex.

The president says the generals hate him because he ends endless wars. That ain't it, chief.

The veterans’ organization has long been plagued by racism and sexism. Staff and members say history is repeating in the Trump age.

What binds Israel and its new Arab allies is not the threat from Iran but the threat of the U.S. military leaving the Middle East.

Space aliens are having a moment in America, thanks to the Blink-182 frontman’s E.T.-hunting A-team. But what’s his real plan?

The State Department, a conservative-connected shell company, and a key Kurdish crime family team up to siphon Syrian oil for U.S. investors.

A story of Iraqi politics, Pentagon oil contracts, and an ongoing foreign policy disaster

There are alternatives to America’s heavy-handed attempts at “helping” the region. It’s time to pursue them.

It’s one of the largest military bases on earth. And since it opened, Fort Benning has been a monument to white supremacy.

What “Defund the Police” can learn from the six-decade effort to radically demilitarize U.S. foreign policy

Mark Milley apologized for his photo op with Trump, but not for the violence he visited on American protesters.

Twenty percent of cops are military veterans—and some are fighting to rid policing of fear-based training and a testosterone-fueled culture.

As police everywhere roll through neighborhoods with battlefield hardware, an Afghanistan vet’s family learns there’s no escaping war.

Trump’s childish nuclear gambling and obsessive jingoism have combined in a strategy that could end arms control as we know it.

The Pentagon’s ill-advised new “interim” recruiting policy could cause precisely the harm to service members that it seeks to avoid.

Amid a global oil collapse, the military is overpaying politically connected contractors to keep its jets fueled in Iraq.

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