Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump appeared in the ‘commander-in-chief’ forum this week. This roundup looks at what the experts have to say about our nation’s biggest vulnerabilities.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Articles on US military
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Passionate disagreement over drone strikes obscures the fact that we actually don’t know much about how they affect U.S. interests.
The men who killed police officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge were black veterans. A historian explains black veterans’ long struggle to live with inequality in their military service, and back home.
Congress is debating the power of government to use a military draft. An Ole Miss historian explains how this power is rooted in our nation’s founding document.
A retired major general and judge advocate considers the legalities of Trump’s bombastic anti-ISIS talk.
Do women in the Oval Office or the courtroom make a genuine difference? Research from English juries suggest they do.
In 1946, a horrific beating left a Black World War II vet blind. His determined fight for justice would earn the support of Orson Welles, Woody Guthrie – and even the president.
Asking ‘Have you served in the military?’ may seem like a minor issue, but it’s actually much more important than you might think. And it’s a question that few doctors make a point of asking.
A leak of secret US files reveal details of the drone strike programme. But is this really a ‘new Snowden’?
US military censors contained information after the bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, leaving Americans with a limited understanding of the impact of radiation.
Polls show Americans have become less trusting and more suspicious.
As the US plans to create a “simulated war zone” in the Pacific, the islanders it will affect are pushing back. What are their chances?
Saudi Arabia’s campaign in Yemen has had unclear strategic consequences and a terrible humanitarian cost. But does anyone believe it’s really over?
The battle was among the bloodiest of World War II and left scars that still linger today.
Credibility, generally, is seen as a dividend of honesty. Tell the truth and, over time, people will come to regard you as a trustworthy person, a reliable source of information. Given this formula, the…
President Obama’s publication of his 2015 National Security Strategy on February 6th is the kind of event that generates great heat and discussion among a relatively small group of policymakers, pundits…
The world’s largest non-nuclear bomb, and easily the most powerful “earthquake bomb” ever built, has now been tested and can be delivered by the B-2 stealth bomber. While the Massive Ordnance Penetrator…
As the Islamic State (IS) continues its seemingly unstoppable march across Iraq it advertises its unique anti-Christian, anti-Shia, anti-everybody brand of Islam on social media as medieval barbarism meets…
Top contributors
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Professor of Political Science, University at Buffalo
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Professor of Political Science, Boise State University
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Lecturer in Law, University of Southern California
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Professor of Political Science, Kansas State University
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Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Professor of History and African and African American Studies, Brandeis University
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Professor of Political Science and Department Chair, Boston University
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Professor of International Politics and Director of the Center for Strategic Studies, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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Doctoral candidate, Regent University
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science, Harvard Kennedy School
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Senior Lecturer, School of Business Management, Queen Mary University of London
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Director of Research, Academic Development, and Innovation, Middlebury
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Lecturer, University of Aberdeen
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Associate Professor of English, Virginia Tech
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Reader in International Relations, Royal Holloway University of London
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Professor of Communication and Middle East Studies, Georgia State University
