The COVID-19 pandemic is reshaping thinking about national security and geopolitics Understanding these changes is crucial to how we—as advocates, analysts, educators, and engaged citizens—respond.

The world has rejected landmines because they are indiscriminate and disproportionately harm civilians. In response to new Trump administration policies, Congress should impose a ban on the deployment of any type of anti-personnel landmine in new theaters of operation and encouraging the United States to join the Mine Ban Treaty.

Now 20 years in force, the treaty has made significant progress toward its goal of ridding the world of anti-personnel landmines.

States-parties to the cluster munitions treaty marked milestones in destroying the lethal weapons that have taken thousands of lives.