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Online Exclusive 02/27/2026 Blog

What We've Been Reading

Online Exclusive 11/17/2025 Online Essay

Department of Violence

Pete Hegseth's speech and the U.S. military strikes on alleged drug boats reveal an American policy of war without rules, violence without constraint.

Online Exclusive 10/23/2025 Online Essay

Beware the Boomerang Effect: Why U.S. Strikes on Alleged Drug Boats Pose a Profound Threat to American Freedom

The U.S. strikes on alleged drug boats point toward an intensification of unchecked destructive and coercive power that directly threatens civil and political freedom.

Online Exclusive 07/27/2016 Blog

The Ethics of Alliances

Online Exclusive 07/12/2016 Blog

Decisions, Perspectives, and Ethics

Over the summer, as we refresh the curriculum at the Naval War College, it has given me an opportunity to ponder the ethical implications of ...

Online Exclusive 06/24/2016 Blog

Brexit and the revenge of the demos

By a narrow majority, British voters have decided their country should leave the European Union (the so-called Brexit). One of the continent's largest economies, military ...

Online Exclusive 06/16/2016 Blog

Why we need better central bank accountability

As pundits debate whether the US Federal Reserve will raise interest rates again this summer or fall, we are reminded of just how much of ...

Online Exclusive 06/10/2016 Blog

Pacta Sunt Servanda, Treaties, and the U.S. Election

How would each presidential candidate approach what is one of the bedrock ethical principles of how the United States conducts foreign policy: pacta sunt servanda, ...