by Ashley Boyle | Oct 22, 2012 | Monitor
ASP Fellow Joshua Foust is quoted in the Financial Times on the subject of drones in the context of the US presidential election. The candidate elected to the Presidency will face pressure to be more transparent about how the U.S. uses drones as part of its...
by Joshua Foust | Oct 22, 2012 | Monitor
The U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya burns after it was attacked on September 11th, 2012. (Essam Al-Fetori/Reuters) Cross-posted from Joshua Foust’s regular column for The Atlantic. Putting it beyond partisanship sounds high-minded, but it’s ultimately...
by William Chodkowski | Oct 15, 2012 | Monitor
A recent article authored by Foreign Policy’s Robert Zoellick sheds light on a disturbing contemporary trend: U.S. leaders’ unwillingness to tackle the macro-level issues of national stability and prosperity. Zoellick correctly implies that policymakers (as a whole)...
by Galen Petruso | Sep 7, 2012 | Monitor
An Afghan girl covers herself during a dust storm at a hilltop in Kabul (Reuters) Cross-posted from Joshua Foust’s column for The Atlantic This week marks two watershed events in the war in Afghanistan: suspending the police training mission and...
by Joshua Foust | Sep 6, 2012 | Monitor
Injured Afghan men arrive at a hospital in the back of a truck, along with the dead bodies of other victims, after a suicide attack on a funeral in Durbaba district of Jalalabad, east of Kabul Afghanistan, on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012. Photo: AP Photo/Rahmat Gul...