Writing about War and
US Foreign Policy
Below are my recent publications and other contributions about war, foreign policy, peace-building, and related topics. Read more about my trilogy of books about these issues via the menus above or by clicking on the covers below:
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"The True Total U.S. Military Budget" with John Bellamy Foster and Gisela Cernadas
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"The True Total U.S. Military Budget"
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"The True Cost of the Military in Hawaiʻi" with Christine Ahn, et al.
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"The True Cost of the Military in Hawaiʻi"
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"Mass Displacement since October 7, 2023: Flight from War, Genocide, and Expulsion in Gaza, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, and the West Bank," Costs of War Project
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"Mass Displacement since October 7, 2023"
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"Consuming War"
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2026 “U.S. Military Fuels Extreme Weather Events,” Foreign Policy in Focus, April 24.
2026 “To Stop Endless War in Iran and Beyond, Congress Should Rescind the Money to Fight,” Common
Dreams, Apr. 21 [republished by Antiwar.com; Campaign for Peace, Disarmament & Common Security].
2026 Hosts Have Power Over Dangerous Guests: Spain Shows How Countries Hosting U.S. Bases Can Push
for Peace, 2nd author with Sahar Khan, Counterpunch, March 27.
2026 Did Iran Attack Diego Garcia, Foreign Policy in Focus, March 25.
2026 War Only Helps Iran’s Leaders. OtherWords, January 14. [Republished by In These Times, Foreign
Policy in Focus, Counterpunch.]
2026 A People’s Buildup: Guam’s Activists Are Right about Stopping the Military Buildup. Guam Daily Post,
January 7.
2025 Peace in Gaza Depends on Palestinians’ Right to Remain—and Return. Foreign Policy in Focus, Oct. 24.
2025 Polls: Americans Don’t Support Trump’s War on Iran. Responsible Statecraft, June 30.
2025 Resistance Works: How Small Groups Took on Great Powers and Won a Victory for Decolonization,
Africa, Indigenous Peoples, and More. TomDispatch.com, June 17.
2025 Welcome to Iraq War 2.0. Responsible Statecraft, June 16.
2025 Words about War Matter: A Language Guide for Discussing War and Foreign Policy, ver. 2, May, co-
author with Network to Dismantle the Military Industrial Complex.
2024 No, Mauritius Isn’t Planning to “Give” US Base at Diego Garcia to China, Responsible Statecraft,
December 5.
2024 The UK Must Push Ahead with Chagos Islands Deal Before Trump Has the Chance to Overturn It, Byline
Times, November 22.
2024 War Profiteering: It’s Past Time to Dismantle the Military-Industrial Complex, Which Has Hijacked the
Federal Budget. The Nation, July print issue. [Adapted from TomDispatch.com, June 2, 2024.]
2024 The Military-Industrial Complex Is Killing Us All: Freeing Ourselves from the Monster Destroying Our
Planet and Our Futures, 1st author with Theresa Arriola, TomDispatch.com, June 2.
2024 Don’t Come to American University: The Institution Has Become an Accomplice to Genocide and the
Far Right’s Rise. The Eagle. March 6.
2024 Most Countries Have Given Up Their Colonies. Why Hasn’t America? Bunk History, March. [Reprint of
2017 Washington Post article.]
2024 Language about Gaza: Ten Urgent Suggestions, version 2, co-author, Words about War Matter, February.
2023 Words about War Matter: A Language Guide for Discussing War and Foreign Policy, co-author,
September.
2023 Build Back (Much, Much) Worse, The Progressive, August/September issue and online.
2023 “Inexcusably Inhuman Wrongs”: US, UK Must Deliver Long Overdue Justice at Diego Garcia, Just
Security, March 23.
2023 The U.S. Base at Diego Garcia Holds a Dirty Secret, Inkstick, February 16.
2023 Why New US Military Bases in the Philippines Are a Bad Idea, position brief lead author, Overseas Base Realignment and Closure Coalition, February 7
2023[2022] (The Only Way to) Stop Wars and Save the World, Metapolis [Spain], 3, no. 1 (January–June).
2021 "This [Afghanistan] Was a Corrupt War to Its Core," The Guardian, August 19.
2021 "After Years of Causing Destruction, the US Owes the Afghan People: Biden Must Pledge to Resettle One Million Afghan Refugees," Business Insider, August 16.
2021 "Why the U.S. Is Trapped in 'Endless War,'" Big Think, August 12.
2021 "Creating Refugees: Displacement Caused by the United States’ Post-9/11 Wars," Costs of War Project, Brown University, 2021 Update, August 19, 2021.
2021 "175 Years of Border Invasions: The Anniversary of the U.S. War on Mexico and the Roots of Northward Migration," Council on Hemispheric Affairs, April 22.
2021 Drawdown: Improving U.S. and Global Security Through Military Base Closures Abroad. With Patterson Deppen and Leah Bolger. Quincy Brief no. 16, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and World BEYOND War, September 20.
2020 Creating Refugees: Displacement Caused by the United States’ Post-9/11 Wars. With Cala Coffman, Katalina Khoury, Madison Lovasz, Helen Bush, Rachael Leduc, and Jennifer Walkup. Costs of War Project, Brown University, September 8.
2020 Unpacking the Invisible Military Backpack: 56 Suggestions for Teaching about War. Radical Teacher.
Vol. 117 (August).
2019 Alternatives to Militarization. Introduction and chapter editor. In Militarization: A Reader. Edited by
Roberto González, Hugh Gusterson, and Gustaaf Housman, in collaboration with David Vine, et al., 333-354. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
2019 No Bases? How Social Movements against U.S. Military Bases Abroad Are Challenging
Militarization and Militarism. Supplemental issue, “Cultures of Militarism,” edited by Catherine Besteman and Hugh Gusterson. Current Anthropology 60, supp. 19: S158-S172.
2019 A Pistol on the Table: U.S. Military Installations in Italy and the Bases of U.S. Power. Special issue, “Projecting Americanism Abroad: The Case of Cold-War Italy,” edited by Barbara Alfano and Anna Celenza. Italian Quarterly 54: 132-155.
2018 Islands of Imperialism: Military Bases and the Ethnography of U.S. Empire in the Middle East. In
Ethnographies of U.S. Empire, edited by Carole McGranahan and John Collins, 249-269. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
2014 “We’re Profiteers”: How Military Contractors Reap Billions from U.S. Military Bases Overseas,
Monthly Review 66(3): 82-102.
2014 When a Country Becomes a Military Base: Blowback and Insecurity in Honduras, the World’s Most
Dangerous Place. In Bioinsecurity and Vulnerability, edited by Lesley A. Sharp and Nancy N. Chen, 25-44. Santa Fe, NM: School for Advanced Research Press.
2013 Compensating a People for the Loss of Their Homeland: Diego Garcia, the Chagossians, and the
Human Rights Standards Damages Model. 1st author, with Philip Harvey and S. Wojciech Sokolowski. Northwestern Journal of International Human Rights 11(1): 152-185. [N.B. Issue published as 2012.]
2012 What If You Can’t Protest a Base? The Chagossian Exile, the Struggle for Democracy, and the
Military Base on Diego Garcia. Special issue: Struggles against US Military Bases, edited by Michael Hardt. South Atlantic Quarterly 111(4): 847-56.
2012 Married to the Mob? Uncovering the Relationship between the U.S. Military and the Mafia in
Southern Italy. Anthropology Now 4(2): 54-69.
2011 Yankee City in the Heart of the Camorra: The U.S. Military in Campania. Meridione: Sud e Nord nel
Mondo: La Napoli degli Americani dalla Liberazione alle basi Nato [Americans in Naples from Liberation to NATO Bases], no. 4, edited by Chiara Ingrosso and Luca Molinari, 243-264.
2004 War and Forced Migration in the Indian Ocean: The U.S. Military Base at Diego Garcia. International
Migration 42(3): 111-143.
2026 “To Stop Endless War in Iran and Beyond, Congress Should Rescind the Money to Fight,” Common
Dreams, Apr. 21 [republished by Antiwar.com; Campaign for Peace, Disarmament & Common Security].
2026 Hosts Have Power Over Dangerous Guests: Spain Shows How Countries Hosting U.S. Bases Can Push
for Peace, 2nd author with Sahar Khan, Counterpunch, March 27.
2026 Did Iran Attack Diego Garcia, Foreign Policy in Focus, March 25.
2026 War Only Helps Iran’s Leaders. OtherWords, January 14. [Republished by In These Times, Foreign
Policy in Focus, Counterpunch.]
2026 A People’s Buildup: Guam’s Activists Are Right about Stopping the Military Buildup. Guam Daily Post,
January 7.
2025 Peace in Gaza Depends on Palestinians’ Right to Remain—and Return. Foreign Policy in Focus, Oct. 24.
2025 Polls: Americans Don’t Support Trump’s War on Iran. Responsible Statecraft, June 30.
2025 Resistance Works: How Small Groups Took on Great Powers and Won a Victory for Decolonization,
Africa, Indigenous Peoples, and More. TomDispatch.com, June 17.
2025 Welcome to Iraq War 2.0. Responsible Statecraft, June 16.
2025 Words about War Matter: A Language Guide for Discussing War and Foreign Policy, ver. 2, May, co-
author with Network to Dismantle the Military Industrial Complex.
2024 No, Mauritius Isn’t Planning to “Give” US Base at Diego Garcia to China, Responsible Statecraft,
December 5.
2024 The UK Must Push Ahead with Chagos Islands Deal Before Trump Has the Chance to Overturn It, Byline
Times, November 22.
2024 War Profiteering: It’s Past Time to Dismantle the Military-Industrial Complex, Which Has Hijacked the
Federal Budget. The Nation, July print issue. [Adapted from TomDispatch.com, June 2, 2024.]
2024 The Military-Industrial Complex Is Killing Us All: Freeing Ourselves from the Monster Destroying Our
Planet and Our Futures, 1st author with Theresa Arriola, TomDispatch.com, June 2.
2024 Don’t Come to American University: The Institution Has Become an Accomplice to Genocide and the
Far Right’s Rise. The Eagle. March 6.
2024 Most Countries Have Given Up Their Colonies. Why Hasn’t America? Bunk History, March. [Reprint of
2017 Washington Post article.]
2024 Language about Gaza: Ten Urgent Suggestions, version 2, co-author, Words about War Matter, February.
2023 Words about War Matter: A Language Guide for Discussing War and Foreign Policy, co-author,
September.
2023 Build Back (Much, Much) Worse, The Progressive, August/September issue and online.
2023 “Inexcusably Inhuman Wrongs”: US, UK Must Deliver Long Overdue Justice at Diego Garcia, Just
Security, March 23.
2023 The U.S. Base at Diego Garcia Holds a Dirty Secret, Inkstick, February 16.
2023 Why New US Military Bases in the Philippines Are a Bad Idea, position brief lead author, Overseas Base Realignment and Closure Coalition, February 7
2023[2022] (The Only Way to) Stop Wars and Save the World, Metapolis [Spain], 3, no. 1 (January–June).
2021 "This [Afghanistan] Was a Corrupt War to Its Core," The Guardian, August 19.
2021 "After Years of Causing Destruction, the US Owes the Afghan People: Biden Must Pledge to Resettle One Million Afghan Refugees," Business Insider, August 16.
2021 "Why the U.S. Is Trapped in 'Endless War,'" Big Think, August 12.
2021 "Creating Refugees: Displacement Caused by the United States’ Post-9/11 Wars," Costs of War Project, Brown University, 2021 Update, August 19, 2021.
2021 "175 Years of Border Invasions: The Anniversary of the U.S. War on Mexico and the Roots of Northward Migration," Council on Hemispheric Affairs, April 22.
2021 Drawdown: Improving U.S. and Global Security Through Military Base Closures Abroad. With Patterson Deppen and Leah Bolger. Quincy Brief no. 16, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and World BEYOND War, September 20.
2020 Creating Refugees: Displacement Caused by the United States’ Post-9/11 Wars. With Cala Coffman, Katalina Khoury, Madison Lovasz, Helen Bush, Rachael Leduc, and Jennifer Walkup. Costs of War Project, Brown University, September 8.
2020 Unpacking the Invisible Military Backpack: 56 Suggestions for Teaching about War. Radical Teacher.
Vol. 117 (August).
2019 Alternatives to Militarization. Introduction and chapter editor. In Militarization: A Reader. Edited by
Roberto González, Hugh Gusterson, and Gustaaf Housman, in collaboration with David Vine, et al., 333-354. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
2019 No Bases? How Social Movements against U.S. Military Bases Abroad Are Challenging
Militarization and Militarism. Supplemental issue, “Cultures of Militarism,” edited by Catherine Besteman and Hugh Gusterson. Current Anthropology 60, supp. 19: S158-S172.
2019 A Pistol on the Table: U.S. Military Installations in Italy and the Bases of U.S. Power. Special issue, “Projecting Americanism Abroad: The Case of Cold-War Italy,” edited by Barbara Alfano and Anna Celenza. Italian Quarterly 54: 132-155.
2018 Islands of Imperialism: Military Bases and the Ethnography of U.S. Empire in the Middle East. In
Ethnographies of U.S. Empire, edited by Carole McGranahan and John Collins, 249-269. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
2014 “We’re Profiteers”: How Military Contractors Reap Billions from U.S. Military Bases Overseas,
Monthly Review 66(3): 82-102.
2014 When a Country Becomes a Military Base: Blowback and Insecurity in Honduras, the World’s Most
Dangerous Place. In Bioinsecurity and Vulnerability, edited by Lesley A. Sharp and Nancy N. Chen, 25-44. Santa Fe, NM: School for Advanced Research Press.
2013 Compensating a People for the Loss of Their Homeland: Diego Garcia, the Chagossians, and the
Human Rights Standards Damages Model. 1st author, with Philip Harvey and S. Wojciech Sokolowski. Northwestern Journal of International Human Rights 11(1): 152-185. [N.B. Issue published as 2012.]
2012 What If You Can’t Protest a Base? The Chagossian Exile, the Struggle for Democracy, and the
Military Base on Diego Garcia. Special issue: Struggles against US Military Bases, edited by Michael Hardt. South Atlantic Quarterly 111(4): 847-56.
2012 Married to the Mob? Uncovering the Relationship between the U.S. Military and the Mafia in
Southern Italy. Anthropology Now 4(2): 54-69.
2011 Yankee City in the Heart of the Camorra: The U.S. Military in Campania. Meridione: Sud e Nord nel
Mondo: La Napoli degli Americani dalla Liberazione alle basi Nato [Americans in Naples from Liberation to NATO Bases], no. 4, edited by Chiara Ingrosso and Luca Molinari, 243-264.
2004 War and Forced Migration in the Indian Ocean: The U.S. Military Base at Diego Garcia. International
Migration 42(3): 111-143.