Zalmay Khalilzad, the Trump administration's special representative to the Afghan peace process, brokered a so-called peace deal with...
Richard Grenell, a Republican operative known for his polarizing views and controversial work for foreign governments, is an outspoken Trump...
Donald Trump's second attorney general, William Barr has been an extreme Trump loyalist, going to extraordinary lengths to shield...
While the UN is seeking a step away from foreign interference in Libya, focusing on transforming the unofficial ceasefire into
There is no significant anti-war movement in America because there’s no war to protest
Neoconservatives and like-minded hawks have sought to burnish their public images in the wake of President Trump’s bumbling
What if this administration’s chaos-sowing proves an end in itself, one that coheres with the millenarian fantasies of
The 1992 draft Defense Planning Guidance (DPG), crafted by then-Defense Department staffers I. Lewis Libby, Paul Wolfowitz, and Zalmay Khalilzad, is widely regarded as an early formulation of the...
The Deterrence Concepts Advisory Panel (DCAP) was established by the Bush administration to oversee production of the president's Nuclear Posture Review, which is a classified study...
Despite many challenges to its credibility, the work of this Congressional commission continues be cited by hardliners to revive Cold War-era fears of nuclear annihilation and justify aggressive policies toward Iran and North Korea.
About The so-called Foster Panel--after its head, John S. Foster, Jr.--was established at the urging of Sen. Jon Kyl by the fiscal year 1999 Defense Authorization Act to report on the safety and...
The Immigration Reform Caucus is a mostly Republican coalition of House members that has sought to crack down on undocumented immigrants and stem the flow of even legal immigration.
On August 16, 2018, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo…
The Office of Iranian Affairs (OIA) was created in early 2006 within the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Near East Affairs, apparently as part of an effort to channel funds to groups that could...
The Office of Special Plans was a controversial Pentagon policy outfit that was widely accused of providing the George W. Bush administration with inaccurate, skewed intelligence linking Iraq and al-Qaeda in an effort to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Robert Joseph played a role manipulating U.S. intelligence to support the invasion of Iraq and later became a lobbyist for controversial Iran opposition groups.
The Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States, commonly called the Rumsfeld Commission or the Rumsfeld Missile Commission after its chair Donald Rumsfeld, operated from...
The Commission to Assess United States National Security Space Management and Organization, frequently called the Rumsfeld Space Commission or simply the Space Commission, was established in 1999 by...
Arguably the most notorious attempt by right-wing figures to challenge the authority of the CIA ("Team A") over intelligence—similar to the effort by the Pentagon's Office of...
Congress established the bipartisan U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, or U.S.-China Commission as it is commonly known, in October 2000, as part of the 2001 Defense Authorization...
