The New Public Forum

Merging the War on Terror with Great Power Competition: The Biden Doctrine

Long before President Joe Biden laid waste to a centerpiece of Washington’s Global War on Terror by ending the war in Afghanistan, the-then chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 2003 haughtily stamped his name on another neoconservative machination and steered the late-Bush administration’s push to lie the country into war with Iraq through … Read more

The Ubiquity of the North Atlantic Alliance

Jens Stoltenberg, the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is anything but a peon – he’s a drudger, maybe a workhorse, who oftentimes can be found travelling the world delivering news of another notably wasteful arms sale or iterating to us all the reasons why this security boondoggle mustn’t disappear. It’s the life … Read more