These are desperate times for the Air Force. To carry out its assigned missions at a time of rising tensions with North Korea and increasing demand for air power to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Air Force is losing too many of its best pilots. They’re not being lost to enemy fire, but to […]
Empty Cockpit Syndrome: Air Force Struggles to Pull Pilot Plunge Out of Tailspin…
The Real Scandal of the Declassified Osama bin Laden Trove Implicates Obama and the CIA…
The Central Intelligence Agency has finally declassified and released hundreds of thousands of documents it seized when it liquidated al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in 2011. Initially, the Obama administration released only a handful of documents which, divorced from the context of the larger trove, appeared to support its narrative that the war…
CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran…
The U.S. government may be considering military action in response to chemical strikes near Damascus. But a generation ago, America’s military and intelligence communities knew about and did nothing to stop a series of nerve gas attacks far more devastating than anything Syria has seen, Foreign Policy has learned…
The Apprentices: John McCain’s Foreign Policy Club…
John McCain likes to joke that any senator not under investigation or detoxification sees himself as a candidate for president — in other words, not the type who would normally seek out professional mentorship. And yet, for many senators — past and present — that’s exactly the word they use to describe their relationship…
McCain and the Trump-Russia Dossier: What Did He Know, and When?…
Did John McCain and a controversial D.C. lobbying group conspire to get the infamous “pee dossier” into the hands of the press? A lawsuit making its way through court in the UK hopes to determine just what role the senator and his associates had in making the lurid dossier public. New filings in the lawsuit, […]
Pentagon Study Declares American Empire Is ‘Collapsing’…
FLASHBACK: Ukrainian Efforts to Sabotage Trump Backfire…
Under Trump, U.S. Foreign Policy Is Increasingly Being Left to the Generals…
Qatar is home to the US’s largest military base in the Middle East and a long-time US ally. Since its Gulf neighbors, led by Saudi Arabia, imposed a blockade two weeks ago, president Donald Trump has enthusiastically praised the blockade and attacked Qatar—contradicting the messages from his own Defense Department, State Department, and Senate Republicans. […]
DC Police Charge 12 Turkish Security Personnel Over Protest Melee…
Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department on Thursday announced criminal charges against 12 Turkish security personnel involved in last month’s alleged assault of protesters demonstrating against Turkey’s president during his visit to the district. Video of the incident in northwest Washington’s Sheridan Circle showed dark-suited men, some carrying holstered guns and wearing earpieces, rushing past a line […]