Walking down the aisles of a grocery store, you are met with an illusion of choice. While it may appear as if you can take your pick from the walls of different brands and options, this is far from ...

David Vine is a political anthropologist and writer. David is the author of a trilogy of books about war and peace including "The United States of War: A Global History of America’s Endless Conflicts, ...

Since the 2000s, national governments and terrorist groups – from Israel, Syria’s Assad regime and the United States to the Islamic State – have found ways to curtail conflict coverage through myriad ...

Some experts have argued that China’s military expenditures are far higher than official reporting would suggest, with one Senator claiming that China’s spending is roughly on par with U.S. spending.

Some lawmakers are calling on Congress to increase defense spending even above the historically high level requested by the Biden administration, citing current high rates of inflation. But there is ...

A British soldier with NATO-led Resolute Support Mission forces arrives at the site of an attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) Western allies of the United States have ...

Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi Meera and Vikram Gandhi Fellowships enable major journalists, public figures and scholars working on India to undertake substantial ...

From 2018 to 2020, the United States government undertook what it labeled “counterterrorism” activities in 85 countries. The map illustrates countries in which the U.S. government conducted operations ...

Deborah Delgado Pugley is associate professor of sociology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and a Visiting Scholar at KU Leuven. She is also a research associate for the Andes Amazon ...

Antonio De Lauri is a Research Professor at the Chr. Michelsen Institute, and the Director of the Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies. He has conducted ethnographic research in Afghanistan, ...

An eye-opening rethinking of nineteenth-century American history that reveals the interdependence of the Northern industrial economy and Southern slave labor. The industrializing North and the ...

The post-9/11 wars have had many budgetary consequences that the Costs of War project has not yet fully assessed. Budget estimates do not include: The opportunity costs of the U.S. choice to pay for ...