Justin Logan

Listen to this article The prospect of peace in Ukraine has activated its opponents.

Trump should continue to be clear with the Ukrainians: The United States will not provide Ukraine with security guarantees, nor will it back a “tripwire force” manned by the so-called “Coalition of the Willing,” should they resurrect the idea. We can't blame the Ukrainians for continuing to ask, but they can't blame us for continuing to decline.

Presidents are drawn to foreign policy in part because courts and Congress won't constrain them as they do on domestic policy.

The stated American war aims have been achieved, and with difficult work a conclusion is conceivable.

American erraticism should encourage the Europeans to pick up responsibility for their own security.

Donald Trump has not been the president of military restraint some in his coalition hoped for, yet elements of withdrawal toward Europe are evident. This paper argues that restraintist forces will continue to influence US foreign policy and examines a scenario that leads to significant American retrenchment. Europe urgently needs to build autonomous security architecture because – whether driven by debt, ideology, or populist politics – US reliability as a guarantor of European security must be doubted.

President Trump shocked the foreign-policy establishment with an announcement late Friday that the United States would be withdrawing roughly 5,000 U.S. troops from Germany.

Trump shocked the foreign-policy establishment with an announcement that the U.S. would be withdrawing roughly 5,000 troops from Germany.

Since the 1960s, the US government has devoted considerable resources to preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to both its adversaries and its partners.

The warming trend continues Today, but the humidity remains relatively low.