David Vine, Cala Coffman, Katalina Khoury, Madison Lovasz, Helen Bush, Rachel Leduc, and Jennifer Walkup (2020) ...

Rehan Rafay Jamil is a PhD candidate in the Political Science department studying comparative politics. His research interests research interests include political economy of development, social ...

Over one half of the federal government’s total assets — buildings, aircraft, ships, vehicles, computers, and weapons — are used for national defense. In 2000, the Pentagon’s total assets were valued ...

Data from War Spending and Lost Opportunities (2019) by Heidi Peltier. Military spending by the federal government is often considered a vital support to employment and economic recovery. However, ...

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Source: The Long-Term Costs of U.S. Care for Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars, by Linda Bilmes (2021) The commitment to veterans continues long after wars ends. Those who have been deployed ...

Some experts have argued that China’s military expenditures are far higher than official reporting would suggest, with one Senator claiming that China’s spending is roughly on par with U.S. spending.

America’s military-industrial complex has been rapidly expanding from the Capital Beltway to Silicon Valley. Although much of the Pentagon’s budget is spent on conventional weapons systems, the ...

Senior Fellow, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University ...

Over the past decade, the U.S. military has implemented policies to promote gender equality, notably lifting the ban on women in combat roles in 2013 and opening all military jobs to women by 2016.

Lyle J. Goldstein is the Director of the China Initiative and Visiting Professor at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. At Brown, he is investigating the ...

This paper examines labor abuses during the war in Afghanistan, focusing on how the U.S. is denying legally-required compensation to foreign workers in war zones. The U.S. government leaned heavily on ...