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The Trump administration has been reallocating scarce federal resources to combating drug cartels (“narco-terrorists”), the Venezuelan state (“a foreign terrorist organisation”) and leftist groups like antifa (a “violent fifth column of domestic terr...

Beyond the question of whether blowing up boats off Venezuela is legal, what’s the military objective, asks Max Boot

Max Boot on deploying troops domestically and blowing up alleged drug smugglers

It’s still possible to love the country and condemn this war. But it’s getting difficult, writes Max Boot

Max Boot chimes in on the unceremonious sacking of Tom Thibodeau after leading New York to their best season in 25 years

How I miss Barack Obama. And I say that as someone who worked to defeat him: I was a foreign policy adviser to John McCain in 2008 and to Mitt Romney in 2012. I criticised Obama’s “lead from behind” foreign policy that resulted in a premature pullout...

On July 4, 1776, church bells rang out across Philadelphia. The Continental Congress had approved a Declaration of Independence to inform the world that the goal of the colonial revolt, which had begun more than a year earlier, was not mere autonomy ...

In 1777, when Britain received words of the drubbing its forces had suffered at Saratoga to the American rebels, a friend of Adam Smith’s exclaimed that “the nation was ruined”. The wise philosopher calmly replied: “There is a great deal of ruin in a...