Are We Incapable of Ending Wars?
In a world awash with weak states, powerful weapons, and crumbling institutions, conflicts can easily continue for generations — and perhaps never end.
What Comes After Empire?
Let’s say the U.S. actually curbed its military adventurism, reeled in the Pentagon budget, and closed its global network of bases. Then what?
China and the Opportunity Costs of September 11
The world’s two major powers lost a decade that could have been spent hashing out responses to climate change, the arms trade, and the global recession.
U.S. in No Position to Condemn Alleged Russian Transfer of Helicopter Gunships to Syrian Regime
It’s the height of hypocrisy for the United States to criticize arms transfers to governments for use on innocent civilians.
Postcard from…Libya
What goes around comes around with arms exports, as the war in Libya demonstrates.
WikiLeaks XIII: Cables Reveal the Extent to Which U.S. and Russia Vied for Prized “Bout-y”
The United States pulled out all stops with Thailand to extradite Viktor Bout.
60 Second Expert: America and the Arms Trade
Russian arms seller Viktor Bout is small potatoes compared to the real pushers.
Viktor Bout, Much Bruited About by Far Left (and Right), Just a Fall Guy?
There may be both less and more to Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout than meets the eye.
Arming the Middle East
To contain Iran, the administration is on the verge of upping the arms ante in the Middle East, and the Dems are giving it a pass.
Challenging a Unipolar World
The United States is still the big dog on the block, columnist Conn Hallinan argues, but it can no longer just bark to get its way.
The GWOT Effect of Arms for Dictators
Winning the War on Terror by spreading democracy? Our arms sales policy is working in the opposite direction.
Why Saudi Arabia? Why Now?
Read the back story on why the administration thinks this deal makes sense.
The Saudi Arms Deal: Congressional Opposition Grows
This turkey may not fly.
A Cluster Bomb Treaty: Again, It’s the U.S. v. the World
The cluster bombs endangering civilians in southern Lebanon were “Made in the U.S.A.”.
Wrangling Over Arms Sales to China
The U.S. gets one right? The administration opposes lifting the arms embargo on China.