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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Was Donald Trump Really Against the Iraq War?
Trump’s prescient opposition to the invasion is an important part of his claim to sound judgment. And he is making it up. I would know.
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AP America’s Misplaced Faith in Bombing Campaigns
Many think of aerial bombardment as a cheap, effective alternative to spilling American blood. They're wrong.
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Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters Can Drone Pilots Be Heroes?
Traditional definitions of valor don’t always account for the practitioners of advanced war-fighting tactics.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Should Intelligence Whistleblowers Be Protected?
Employees seeking to report wrongdoing are safeguarded across all federal agencies—but the process for doing so in the classified intelligence community can be dangerous.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Watching the Benghazi Film, 13 Hours, With a Republican Crowd
GOP operatives host a private screening of a movie they hope will hurt Hillary Clinton.
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United States Army Air Forces The Women Excluded From Arlington National Cemetery
The World War II pilots fought for their right to be recognized for decades, but have been barred from being buried on the grounds.
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Umit Bektas / Reuters A Civilian Career for Military Medics
A new training program helps them find health-care jobs back home by filling in the gaps in their medical knowledge.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP A New Threat to the Syrian Refugee Program
Republicans pounced on the news that two men indicted on terrorism charges had been resettled in the U.S. after fleeing Iraq.
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Bob Daugherty / AP Ronald Reagan’s Disarmament Dream
How Reagan’s fantasy about—and Mikhail Gorbachev’s fear of—space weapons ruined a plan to eliminate the entire U.S. and Soviet nuclear arsenals.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Military: An Alternative to the Brutalities of the Modern Economy
The millions of service members who live on military bases around the world experience a kind of economic and social security that is foreign to most of America’s middle class.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The Principled Realism of Rand Paul
On ISIS, the Kentucky senator steers a distinctive course between his party’s neoconservatives and its bellicose populists.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Secrecy Shuts Down a National-Security Debate
On Tuesday night, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio clashed over NSA surveillance—but they can’t tell the public what they’re arguing about.
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Eduardo Munoz / Reuters How Obama's Gun-Control Push Inverted the Politics of the No-Fly List
Democrats, once critics of Bush-era terror policies, have decided they’re a useful tool, while Republicans have rediscovered the importance of due process.
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Mel Evans / AP Shattering the Military's Glass Ceiling
Defense Secretary Ash Carter’s long-overdue announcement on Thursday opens the door for talented young men and women.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP Chris Christie: ‘Iran is a Greater Threat Than ISIS’
The New Jersey governor on foreign policy, Marco Rubio, and the fine art of ball breaking.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Why the FBI Isn't Calling San Bernardino 'Terrorism'
The technical definition of such acts is often at odds with public understanding.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Will Congress Finally Declare War on ISIS?
The Paris attacks have brought new proposals, but legislators seem no closer to passing a resolution.
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