Review of Samuel Moyn, Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War

Samuel Moyn, Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021).  In this extraordinary book, Yale University historian Samuel Moyn examines how the U.S. military’s effort to make war more “humane” by limiting civilian casualties has served to make American wars seemingly endless.  The American use of …

The Costs of Not Supporting Ukraine Far Outweigh the Costs of Supporting It

While there was initially strong bipartisan support for massive American military assistance to Ukraine at the start of the war, a growing number of Americans—especially some (but by no means all) Republicans—now believe that Washington is giving too much to Kyiv. Those who think this way have cited several objections. These include that it costs …

Why America’s Middle Eastern Allies Haven’t Condemned Russia’s War in Ukraine

It comes as no surprise that the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria, which Russia backs, has expressed support for Moscow’s recognition of the two breakaway “republics” in eastern Ukraine, and that the Iranian foreign minister described the conflict in Ukraine as “rooted in NATO provocations.” But for the most part, America’s Middle Eastern allies also …