On Saturday night, U.S. President Donald Trump federalized 2,000 soldiers from the California National Guard and deployed them to Los Angeles, with orders to “temporarily protect” federal Immigration ...

This episode unpacks the state of civil-military relations as President Donald Trump remakes the senior leadership of the U.S. military. 2025 marks the 250th anniversary of the founding of the U.S.

On January 13, AEI’s Kori Schake argued that American civil-military relations are best understood through the founding era, not abstract theory. She rejected Samuel P. Huntington’s The Soldier and ...

The prospective return of Donald Trump to office as president and commander in chief may — and in fact should — prompt a fundamental rethinking of civil-military relations in this country. Rather than ...

Writing in Foreign Affairs on Oct. 15, Max Boot argues that “Trump and his defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, are engaged in a far-reaching assault on the apolitical professionalism that has made the ...

With the U.S. presidential election about a month away, analysts and pundits continue to speculate about who Harris or Trump will bring into their administrations. Yet, one crucial point overlooked ...

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The U.S. military and the country’s leadership have had an unusually cordial relationship for more than 200 years, but an increasingly divisive political climate and dysfunctional government could ...

The trend of using military personnel to supervise or protect construction sites in some residential areas in Lagos State is very worrisome. It is an aberration to say the least. Civil contractors ...