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And the House Homeland Security Committee will kick off the effort to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas at 10 a.m.

Identifying how the DoD's Law of War Manual could be improved in its methodological approach to sources of international law.

The post-9/11 war funding pattern was completely different. For the first time since the American Revolutionary War, war costs were covered almost entirely by debt. There were no wartime tax increases or cuts in spending. Quite the reverse a “culture of endless money” inside the Pentagon. the ability to keep borrowing and spending with minimal…

A case before an appeals court in Washington could influence how the former president’s trials will play out this year.

DC anti-war protest via Flickr By Linda Bilmes / Just Security The post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were enabled by a historically unprecedented combination of budgetary procedures and financing methods. Unlike all previous U.S. wars, the post-9/11 wars were funded without higher taxes or non-war budget cuts, and through a separate budget. This set of circumstances – one that I have termed the “Ghost Budget” – enabled successive administrations to prosecute the wars with limited