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VIDEO: Mike Pompeo's empty restraint rhetoric
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the Trump administration’s foreign policy is based on restraint and realism. But U.S. foreign policy actions across the world suggest a lack of understanding...
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VIDEO: Drones, bombs, and guns won't eradicate COVID-19
Political leaders keep saying that the United States is on a war footing as it confronts COVID-19. But the military is the wrong tool to address it, even if war spending is — in part — what got the...
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VIDEO: Why retribution against China for COVID-19 harms US interests
As COVID-19 ravages America, some U.S. politicians are focusing their efforts on trying to punish the Chinese government through sanctions and other measures. The Quincy Institute's Rachel Esplin...
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VIDEO: Don't fall for the cold war trap
The burgeoning cold war with China just got frostier over the past 24 hours. The Trump campaign has made clear that it intends to hammer China in the general election. On Tuesday night, as reported by...
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VIDEO: FDD's online harassment against critics of Trump’s State Department
Earlier this month, Responsible Statecraft reported — based on recently obtained documents via a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit — that the hawkish DC think tank Foundation for the Defense of...
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VIDEO: Iraq vet Matt Gallagher on why 'forever war' is dirty word to some,...
The Quincy Institute's Adam Weinstein, a Marine Corps veteran who served in Afghanistan, talks with "Youngblood" author and Iraq war veteran Matt Gallagher about the term "forever war" and why the...
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VIDEO: Beebe vs. Daalder on future of Russia-Ukraine war
On Monday, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs hosted a debate between the Quincy Institute's director of Grand Strategy George Beebe and CCGA's president, Ivo Daalder, looking back at the first...
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Dedollarization is here, like it or not
Dedollarization appears to be an unstoppable trend as countries around the world look to reduce their dependence on U.S. currency. Countries, particularly those in the Global South, are reducing their...
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US-China war is not inevitable (Video)
Washington is increasingly abuzz with talk of “strategic clarity,” which is code for committing American troops to defend Taiwan, marking a major shift in policy that fundamentally goes against U.S....
View ArticleVideo: Why is declaring war on Mexican cartels so popular?
The idea of going to war with Mexican cartels to address the fentanyl crisis has been growing in popularity among Republican members of Congress and GOP presidential candidates this year.QI’s Adam...
View ArticleVideo: Why is the US training African coup leaders?
The military coup in Gabon this summer marked the eighth such revolt in Africa since 2020, a shocking number that is raising questions about the role and impact of US military training in these...
View ArticleDid a foreign agent control the Foreign Relations Committee?
What if the chair of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the committee that oversees legislation impacting war powers, treaties, troop deployments, and military aid, was illegally acting...
View ArticleBiden has the leverage to stop the war in Israel
Saying that the U.S. has the right to defend itself doesn't mean the United States must defer to Israel on all things, especially when it is harming American interests abroad. Washington officials say...
View ArticleDid Biden just escalate the Gaza War?
On Thursday night, President Joe Biden — acting without congressional approval — ordered airstrikes on Houthi targets in Yemen, an escalation in the regional spillover from Israel’s war in Gaza that...
View ArticleWill US troops have to go to war for Mohammed bin Salman? (VIDEO)
Even as the war in Gaza rages on and the death toll surpasses 35,000, the Biden administration appears set on pursuing its vision of a Saudi-Israeli normalization deal that it sees as the path to...
View ArticleThe dystopian future of military AI (VIDEO)
The Dystopian Future of AI WarfareFrom the electronic battlefield in Vietnam to network centric warfare that was developed in the late 1990s and used in Iraq and Afghanistan, every new generation and...
View ArticleDon't let US-China trade disputes turn into a shooting war
The U.S. and China are in a fierce competition over who dominates the global economy. While Washington has rightly zeroed in on the need for supply chain independence, China's unfair trade practices,...
View ArticleWould YOU negotiate with Putin?
The Ukraine War has dragged on for nearly three years with no current end in sight. The United States' pledge to Ukraine's defense has grown increasingly costly and unpopular, and talks on both sides...
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Netanyahu: Thank you America for your service
It's been one year since Israel invaded Gaza in its campaign to destroy Hamas in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks. Since then, the Biden Administration has given Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's...
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