What Can a Secretive Funding Authority Tell Us About the Pentagon’s Use of Force Interpretations?

For nearly two decades, the Department of Defense has used 10 U.S.C. § 127e, an obscure counterterrorism funding authority, to create and command proxy forces across Africa and Asia. The full list of these proxy forces is highly classified and yet unknown. But journalists like Nick Turse, who was recently featured on The Lawfare Podcast, have so far This article has been indexed from Lawfare