How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything

Rosa Brooks

Rosa Brooks is the daughter of left-wing anti-war activists and the wife of a US Army Special Forces officer. Her varied career has included work for international human rights NGOs and a recent stint as a high-level Pentagon official: from 2009 to 2011, Brooks served as Counselor to Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Michèle Flournoy, one of the Pentagon’s highest ranking civilians. Over the years, her work has brought her to dozens of countries around the globe, from Afghanistan, Iraq, China and Indonesia to the Balkans and Sub-Saharan Africa. Brooks is currently a tenured law professor at Georgetown University Law Center and a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation. She is an expert on international law, constitutional law, human rights and national security law, and has authored dozens of scholarly articles on these subjects, along is co-author of  Can Might Make Rights? The Rule of Law After Military Interventions. Brooks currently writes a weekly column on war, politics and the military for Foreign Policy magazine. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with her husband, children, and her dog.

Nicholas Goldberg

Nicholas Goldberg joined the Los Angeles Times in 2002 as editor of the op-ed page. He became deputy editor of the editorial pages in 2008 and a year later was named editor of the editorial pages, a position that gives him overall responsibility for The Times‘ opinion coverage. He is a former reporter and editor at Newsday, where he worked as Middle East bureau chief from 1995 to 1998. His writing has been widely published.

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Main image:  Watching the War by Francesco Simeti