Quotes by : Rosa Brooks

What line separates the lawful wartime targeting of an enemy combatant from the extrajudicial murder....

It takes a whole government to really screw up a war. A dollop of American hubris goes a long way too.....

While it is a truism to observe that if humans were angels, law would be unnecessary, we could equally....

As budget cuts cripple civilian agencies and programs, they lose their ability to perform ad they once....

We prefer to imagine brutal wars and atrocities as events that "just happen" every now and then, much....

Most fundamentally, the U.S. military is—and will continue to be—a product of our culture and our....

...And unpredictability can spread: one powerful outlier can pave the way for others, and as more states....

I don't believe that humans can be reduced to homo economicus, but as a group, government officials are....

the U.S. government has a long history of overclassifying information that shouldn't be classified at....

It has often been our best instincts, not our worst, that have led us to do harm in the world

Many at the State Department think its their job, not the Army's, to develop cultural and regional expertise....