The Trump administration this week launched a military strike against a Tren de Aragua drug boat, marking a new chapter in cartel warfare and Western Hemisphere defense policy.
When Donald Rumsfeld’s Pentagon executed an ill-conceived invasion of Iraq in 2003, was it really pursuing American defence? All but a handful of unreconstructed Iraq hawks would disagree. So it’s welcome news that President Trump has restored the Defense Department’s original name, the Department of War. Talk of renaming the DoD has roiled Republican circles […]Read More…
France’s centrist PM, François Bayrou, has just lost the parliamentary vote of confidence he called ahead of presenting his package of tax increases and budget cuts.