US still arming African governments that use child soldiers
…in U.S. military management and technical training. 2. Foreign Military Financing (FMF): FMF provides grants to foreign governments that are used to purchase weapons, training, and other defense articles and…
Bad and Getting Worse
…provided yearly country-level information on Foreign Military Financing (FMF) extended to foreign governments and international organizations for the procurement of U.S. defense articles, services, and construction. The reports also provided…
CORVI Risk Assessment: Tarawa, Kiribati
…there has been a sharp increase of foreign vessels fishing in the Kiribati exclusive economic zone (EEZ), particularly an increase from China and Taiwan. The Kiribati government relies on foreign…
Trump’s 2026 State of the Union in Focus
The Risk of Ignoring Foreign Policy By Emma Ashford, Senior Fellow Foreign policy is sometimes an afterthought in the State of the Union. Presidents are happy to use it to…
Curt Mills: Conservative Anti-Interventionism
…there is this tendency on the neocon right that exists to this day for grand moralization, both in foreign affairs but also in the interpersonal. And so, it’s not as…
China’s Aid to Africa: Monster or Messiah?
…debate inside China about the goal and management of Chinese aid to Africa. For the foreign policy bureaucrats at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, foreign aid is essentially a political…
The Emerging Great Game
…January 10, Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang landed at Dhaka for what the Chinese Foreign Ministry called a “technical stop” where he met with the Bangladeshi foreign minister.76https://military.china.com/news/13004177/20230112/44276322.html. Washington’s challenge…
Rethinking Nuclear Security: The Case for an Elite Nuclear Force in India
…Sterilized Zone and a 16 km Emergency Planning Zone, whose administrative and security responsibilities are with the state police. Both forces—CISF and state police—conduct mock drills periodically for inter-agency coordination. All nuclear…