The honor is a fake one used to advance the Left's agenda, and it creates bad incentives for U.S. politicians.

Next time nations go to war, some will surely try to bring others before the World Court, will invoke the Briand-Kellogg pact under which nearly all governments— have "renounced war as ...

Salmon O. Levinson, one of the leading brains behind the Kellogg-Briand Pact, put it brilliantly in an essay he published in The New Republic on March 9, 1918. As he put it: “A trial before an ...

As Secretary of State, Kellogg worked on U.S. policy towards Latin America, China, and Europe. In 1927, French Ambassador Aristide Briand approached him about a treaty renouncing war between the ...

“The first casualty when war comes is truth,” U.S. Sen. Hiram W. Johnson of California said in 1929, debating ratification of the Kellogg-Briand Pact, a noble but ultimately failed attempt to ...

A few examples include the first Hague Convention in the 1890s that sought to ban specific types of weapons such as chemicals, aircraft and submarines; the Kellogg-Briand Pact that banned the use ...

Prosecutors—including Robert Jackson, who took a leave of absence from his position as a U.S. Supreme Court justice to serve as a prosecutor in Nuremberg—filed an indictment, the first count of which ...

Article I of the 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, or the Pact of Paris, binds its signatories to declare that they “condemn recourse to war for the solution of international controversies and renounce ...

From 1816 to 1928, the year Kellogg-Briand was written, the average state had a roughly 1.33 percent chance of losing territory due to conquest, with an average loss of about 295,000 square ...

Laws of war and peace The first quasi-serious attempt to prohibit war in the past 100 years happened in 1928, when the U.S. and France developed the Kellogg-Briand Pact.