The Moral Logic of Humanitarian Intervention
By Dexter Filkins The New Yorker or eight years, Samantha Power served President Obama as an aide and then as U.N. Ambassador but also as an in-house conscience on matters […]
Tag Archives: Military
Rationalizing Domination, From the Schoolyard to the Battlefield
By David Graeber The Baffler In late February and early March 1991, during the first Gulf War, U.S. forces bombed, shelled, and otherwise set fire to thousands of young Iraqi […]
How a Malaysian Playboy Controlled the Most Powerful Naval Force on the Planet
By Matthew Gault War is Boring It was the middle of September 2013 and the U.S. Justice Department had laid a trap. Its target was the Malaysian millionaire defense contractor […]
The U.S. Military and Artificial Intelligence
By Patrick Tucker Defense One In November, Undersecretary of Defense Frank Kendall quietly issued a memo to the Defense Science Board that could go on to play a role in history. […]
Cutting Officers
By Andreas Kuersten TheThresh.com A recent piece from the New York Times on officer cuts in the Army has raised some interesting concerns about how this downsizing is being carried […]
Congressional Math on Syria
By Troy Kuersten TheThresh.com Is Obama making a huge mistake by giving Congress a major voice in deciding whether or not to strike Syria? That depends on what you think […]
Is America Turning Away From “Beyond a Reasonable Doubt”?
By Andreas Kuersten TheThresh.com What do the responses to the George Zimmerman case and military sexual assault crisis have in common? At first glance, both are movements expressing displeasure with […]
