Armed Conflict

China might use its expanding coercive toolkit to put Taiwan in its crosshairs.

Military political neutrality in a democratic society is, and always has been, more than a promise of obedience.

The recently announced mineral deal is likely a lawful “sole executive agreement” that the president need not submit to Congress, but subsequent implementing agreements are likely to raise questions of l...

NSPM-4, President Trump’s order on the military’s “mission for sealing the Southern Border,” obscures the fine-grained limits that ought to clearly and unambiguously regulate lethal force.

There is a point at which ignorant dilettantism becomes a form of cruelty. Trump passed it long ago in Ukraine.

President Trump may be able to recognize Russian sovereignty over Crimea—but that doesn’t mean he can make Congress play along.