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The Obama administration has shifted its focus of strategic concerns from the Middle East to the Far East. (Although the term 'Asia' is often used, reference is clearly to China, [...]

President Ronald Reagan proposed in March 1983 that the US scientific community develop the ability to shoot down ballistic missiles armed with nuclear warheads. He hoped to shift the international [...]

US Representative Peter King's congressional hearings--on Muslim radicalization, the war on terror, and the role of America's Muslims--proceed, provide an opportune time to take stock of a homegrown terrorist phenomenon [...]

A team of U.S. political geographers analyzes the secret Afghanistan war logs released by WikiLeaks.org. They offer the chance to examine in detail the dynamics of the conflict in that country. Doing so in a spatial framework is possible because each of the 77,000 events has geographic coordinates and dates. Using cartographic and geostatistical tools, the authors map the changing distribution of the events and compare them to the well-known violent-events ACLED database (see O'Loughlin et al., 2010 in this issue). They conclude that ACLED comprises a representative set of the more comprehensive data in the released files. The released war logs show that the Afghan insurgency spread rapidly in 2008-2009, that the insurgency is moving out of its traditional Pashtun heartlands, and remains mostly rural in location. Hotspot and cluster analysis identifies the key locations of the current war, which indicate that it is relocating to new provinces in Afghanistan while intensifying in the eastern border regions and in the south. Journal of Economic Literature, Classification Numbers: H560, H770, O180. 14 figures, 2 tables, 30 references. Key words: Afghanistan, U.S. military, WikiLeaks, ACLED, Taliban, insurgency, civilian casualties, Pakistan, A1-Qaeda, violence hotspots. DOI: 10.2747/1539-7216.51.4.472

US military intervention and covert action are significant contributors to global injustice. Discussion of this contributor to injustice is relatively common in social justice movements. Yet it has been ignored by the global justice literature in political philosophy. This paper aims to fill this gap by introducing the topic into the debate. While the global justice debate has focused on inter-national and supra-national institutions, I argue that an adequate analysis of US military and covert action must focus on domestic institutions of the US. I describe many such institutions including industry lobbying, the ubiquity of US military bases abroad, US programs for training foreign militaries, secrecy of the intelligence and military agencies, pliant news media and government propaganda.