Rosa Brooks

Rosa Brooks is a law professor at Georgetown University and a senior fellow with the New America/Arizona State University Future of War Project. She served as a counselor to the U.S. defense undersecretary for policy from 2009 to 2011 and previously served as a senior advisor at the U.S. State Department. Her most recent book is How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything.

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NARIZAH, AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 24: Seen through night vision optics, a U.S. Humvee vehicle passes detained women and children taken from their homes during a late evening raid August 24, 2002 in Narizah, Afghanistan, about 140 kms (86 miles) east of Kabul. U.S. Special Forces were first to enter villages in southeastern Afghanistan during the week-long Operation Mountain Sweep involving more than 2,000 coalition forces, capturing 10 suspected members of al Qaeda and Taliban and caches of weapons as well as Taliban documents, according to a U.S. military spokesman. (Photo by Wally Santana-Pool/Getty Images)
NARIZAH, AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 24: Seen through night vision optics, a U.S. Humvee vehicle passes detained women and children taken from their homes during a late evening raid August 24, 2002 in Narizah, Afghanistan, about 140 kms (86 miles) east of Kabul. U.S. Special Forces were first to enter villages in southeastern Afghanistan during the week-long Operation Mountain Sweep involving more than 2,000 coalition forces, capturing 10 suspected members of al Qaeda and Taliban and caches of weapons as well as Taliban documents, according to a U.S. military spokesman. (Photo by Wally Santana-Pool/Getty Images)

Can There Be War Without Soldiers?

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US President Barack Obama pauses while speaking to the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials during their annual conference at the Walt Disney World Resort June 22, 2012 in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Obama spoke about immigration reform, the economy and the upcoming 2012 US Presidential Election. AFP PHOTO/Brendan SMIALOWSKI (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/GettyImages)
US President Barack Obama pauses while speaking to the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials during their annual conference at the Walt Disney World Resort June 22, 2012 in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Obama spoke about immigration reform, the economy and the upcoming 2012 US Presidential Election. AFP PHOTO/Brendan SMIALOWSKI (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/GettyImages)

Obama: The Last Year and the Legacy, Part II

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You Know Who Isn’t Sad About Scalia?

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WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 12: President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill January 12, 2016 in Washington, D.C. In his final State of the Union, President Obama reflected on the past seven years in office and spoke on topics including climate change, gun control, immigration and income inequality. (Photo by Evan Vucci - Pool/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 12: President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill January 12, 2016 in Washington, D.C. In his final State of the Union, President Obama reflected on the past seven years in office and spoke on topics including climate change, gun control, immigration and income inequality. (Photo by Evan Vucci - Pool/Getty Images)

Obama: The Last Year and the Legacy, Part 1

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America’s Police Problem Isn’t Just About Police

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August 1776: Council of War in the house of Mr Philip Livingstone in Brooklyn, after the Battle of Long Island. At that time George Washington's headquarters were in various houses in the area giving rise to the phrase,' Washington slept here'. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)
August 1776: Council of War in the house of Mr Philip Livingstone in Brooklyn, after the Battle of Long Island. At that time George Washington's headquarters were in various houses in the area giving rise to the phrase,' Washington slept here'. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

The United States of Spinelessness

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Members of the Raid, a special intervention unit of the French police patrol in the northern Paris suburb of Saint-Denis city center, on November 18, 2015, as French Police special forces raid an appartment, hunting those behind the attacks that claimed 129 lives in the French capital five days ago. At least one person was killed in an apartment targeted in the operation aimed at the suspected mastermind of the attacks, Belgian Abdelhamid Abaaoud, and police had been wounded in the shootout. AFP PHOTO / LIONEL BONAVENTURE (Photo credit should read LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP/Getty Images)
Members of the Raid, a special intervention unit of the French police patrol in the northern Paris suburb of Saint-Denis city center, on November 18, 2015, as French Police special forces raid an appartment, hunting those behind the attacks that claimed 129 lives in the French capital five days ago. At least one person was killed in an apartment targeted in the operation aimed at the suspected mastermind of the attacks, Belgian Abdelhamid Abaaoud, and police had been wounded in the shootout. AFP PHOTO / LIONEL BONAVENTURE (Photo credit should read LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP/Getty Images)

The Threat Is Already Inside

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Dumb Wars

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LAS VEGAS, NV - OCTOBER 13: Democratic presidential candidates Sen. U.S. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) (L) and Hillary Clinton take part in a presidential debate sponsored by CNN and Facebook at Wynn Las Vegas on October 13, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Five Democratic presidential candidates are participating in the party's first presidential debate. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
LAS VEGAS, NV - OCTOBER 13: Democratic presidential candidates Sen. U.S. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) (L) and Hillary Clinton take part in a presidential debate sponsored by CNN and Facebook at Wynn Las Vegas on October 13, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Five Democratic presidential candidates are participating in the party's first presidential debate. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

America’s Problem With World Leaderishness

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Members of Jihadist group Hamza Abdualmuttalib train near Aleppo on July 19, 2012. Rebels seized control of all of Syria's border crossings with Iraq on July 19, dealing a new blow to President Bashar al-Assad, as China and Russia dismayed the West by blocking UN action against his regime. AFP PHOTO/BULENT KILIC (Photo credit should read BULENT KILIC/AFP/GettyImages)
Members of Jihadist group Hamza Abdualmuttalib train near Aleppo on July 19, 2012. Rebels seized control of all of Syria's border crossings with Iraq on July 19, dealing a new blow to President Bashar al-Assad, as China and Russia dismayed the West by blocking UN action against his regime. AFP PHOTO/BULENT KILIC (Photo credit should read BULENT KILIC/AFP/GettyImages)

The Hard Lessons of Kunduz and Syria

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The Donald Versus the Scriptures

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Eat the Rich and Pay the Poor

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Making a State by Iron and Blood

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KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN: TV grabs taken secretly by BBC Newsnight shows Taliban's one-eyed spiritual leader Mullah Mohammed Omar (C) during a rally of his troops in Kandahar before their victorious assault on Kabul in 1996. AFP PHOTO MANDATORY CREDIT BBC NEWS/NEWSNIGHT (Photo credit should read AFP/Getty Images)
KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN: TV grabs taken secretly by BBC Newsnight shows Taliban's one-eyed spiritual leader Mullah Mohammed Omar (C) during a rally of his troops in Kandahar before their victorious assault on Kabul in 1996. AFP PHOTO MANDATORY CREDIT BBC NEWS/NEWSNIGHT (Photo credit should read AFP/Getty Images)

Mullah Omar, We Hardly Knew Ye

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How to Speak Foreign Policy Like a Beltway Native

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