We Meant Well: Haiti Edition
Nora Schenkel provides a sobering account of her time in Haiti in The New York Times: I came to Haiti in May 2011 as a development worker with an international nongovernmental organization. I liked...
View ArticleDealing With U.S. War Fund Waste
If the American people think the IRS was bad, take a quick look at Afghanistan. Late last year, a U.S. army staff sergeant was charged with smuggling $1 million in cash inside numerous DVD recorders...
View ArticleSome Disheartening Updates from Iraq and Afghanistan
An article in today’s Washington Post indicates that: A rejuvenated al-Qaeda-affiliated force asserted control over the western Iraqi city of Fallujah on Friday, raising its flag over government...
View ArticleThe Fatal Conceit of Foreign Intervention
I recently gave a talk at Hillsdale College on the “The Fatal Conceit of Foreign Intervention“. The talk is an expanded and updated version of the content found in this paper. Video of the talk is now...
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UN Peacekeeping Operation (PKO) Troops Worldwide by Month, 1991-2014
Jay Ulfelder tweets the following graph of UN Peacekeeping troops:
View ArticleField of Nightmares
From The Washington Post: But when the violence subsided, the Iraqi government and the United States began pumping in millions of dollars to clean up Sadr City. That’s when the scrap was cleared to...
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Foreign Intervention: A Case for Humility (Or, why I am a peacemonger)
This past Thursday I had the pleasure of giving a dinner address to the Institute for Humane Studies Board of Directors. The purpose of the event was to honor Jerry Fullinwider upon his retirement from...
View ArticleWinning the battle, losing the war?
Writing in the Washington Post, Andrew Bacevich argues that: We must hope for victory over the Islamic State. But even if achieved, that victory will not redeem but merely prolong a decades-long...
View ArticleIn Search of Libertarian Realism
That is a title of a symposium in the current issue of Reason magazine. Contributors include: Matt Welch, Sheldon Richman, Christopher Preble, William Ruger, and Fernandon Teson. You can read the...
View ArticleThe War on Drugs in Afghanistan: Another Failed Experiment with Interdiction
That is the title of a new working paper, co-authored with Abby Hall and Scott Burns. Here is the abstract: Following the start of the war on terror in 2001, U.S. policymakers determined that winning...
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