Additional Reading

Security Assistance

The Security Assistance Monitor documents all publicly accessible information on U.S. security and defense assistance programs throughout the world, including arms sales, military and police aid, training programs, exercises, exchanges, bases and deployments: https://securityassistance.org/

Rose Jackson, Untangling the Web: A Blueprint for Reforming American Security Sector Assistance, Open Society Foundations, January 2017: https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/publications/untangling-web-blueprint-reforming-american-security-sector-assistance

Dafna Rand and Stephen Tankel, Security Cooperation and Assistance: Rethinking the Return on Investment, Center for a New American Security, August 2015: https://www.cnas.org/publications/reports/security-cooperation-and-assistance-rethinking-the-return-on-investment

Melissa G. Dalton, Hijab Shah, Tommy Ross, Asya Akca, Shifting the Burden Responsibly: Oversight and Accountability in U.S. Security Sector Assistance, Center for Strategic & International Studies, April 2019: https://csis-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/publication/190424_Dalton%20et%20al_ShiftingBurdenResponsibly_WEB_v2_0.pdf

Colby Goodman, Holes in the Net: US Arms Export Control Gaps in Combating Corruption, Transparency International Defense & Security Program, January 2020: https://ti-defence.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/US_Arms_Export_Gaps_in_Combatting_Corruption_v2d_digital.pdf

Ilan Goldenberg, Alice Hunt Friend, Stephen Tankel, and Nicholas A. Heras, Remodeling Partner Capacity: Maximizing the Effectiveness of U.S. Counterterrorism Security Assistance, Center for a New American Security, November 2016: https://www.cnas.org/publications/reports/remodeling-partner-capacity

Arms Sales

With Great Power: Modifying US Arms Sales to Reduce Civilian Harm, Center for Civilians in Conflict and Stimson Center, January 2018: https://civiliansinconflict.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/With-Great-Power.pdf

Great Responsibility: A Legislative Reform Agenda for U.S. Arms Transfers and Civilian Harm, Center for Civilians in Conflict and Stimson Center, October 2020:https://www.stimson.org/2020/great-responsibility/#

Jeff Abramson, How Congress Can Exert Responsible Oversight on Trump’s Dangerous Approach to Arms Sales, Arms Control Association, Issue Brief Vol. 11, Issue 1: https://www.armscontrol.org/issue-briefs/2019-01/congress-exert-responsible-oversight-trumps-dangerous-approach-arms-sales

Shannon Dick and Rachel Stohl, Global Arms Trade: Setting an Example for Responsible Policy, Stimson, November 2019: https://www.stimson.org/2019/global-arms-trade-setting-example-responsible-policy/

Paul K. Kerr, Arms Sales: Congressional Review Process, Congressional Research Service, updated July 17, 2020: https://fas.org/sgp/crs/weapons/RL31675.pdf

Use of Force

Tess Bridgeman, War Powers Resolution Reporting: Presidential Practice and the Use of Armed Forces Abroad, 1973-2019, Reiss Center on Law and Security, January 2020: https://warpowers.lawandsecurity.org/wpr-reporting-1973-2019.pdf

Deciding to Use Force Abroad: War Powers in a System of Checks and Balances, The Constitution Project, 2005: https://archive.constitutionproject.org/pdf/War_Powers_Deciding_To_Use_Force_Abroad1.pdf

The War Powers Resolution: Concepts and Practice, Congressional Research Service, updated March 2019: https://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R42699.pdf

Congressional Research Service, The War Powers Resolution: Concepts and Practice, March 8, 2019: https://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R42699.pdf

Congress and National Security Oversight

Richard Fontaine and Loren DeJonge Schulman, Congress’s Hidden Strengths: Wielding Informal Tools of National Security Oversight, Center for a New American Security, July 2020: https://www.cnas.org/publications/reports/congresss-hidden-strengths.

Alexander C. Furnas and Timothy M. LaPira Congressional Brain Drain: Legislative Capacity in the 21st Century, New America, September 8, 2020: https://www.newamerica.org/political-reform/reports/congressional-brain-drain/

Kevin Kosar, ed., Congress and Foreign Affairs: Reasserting the Power of the First Branch, R Street, August 12, 2020: https://www.rstreet.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Final-v2-Congress-and-Foreign-Affairs.pdf