Sacrificing Missile Defense for ‘Reset’
When Barack Obama campaigned for president in 2008, he promised to “cut investments in unproven missile defense systems.” The word “unproven,” folks worried, could be used...
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Smoke Signals
U.S. abandonment of the old Middle East order has led to provocations against Israel
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Israel’s Growing Isolation—and America’s Decreasing Regional Power
The Israeli press is still trying to figure out what to make of Robert Gates’s parting shot at Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu....
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Defense Spending Isn’t the Place to Skimp
In a private meeting before the debt ceiling vote, several Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee urged House Speaker John Boehner to appoint a hawk to the super committee charged with...
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Et Tu, Yoo?
I’m disheartened to find my friend John Yoo lending his voice to the bogus claim that opposition to U.S. intervention in Libya’s civil war makes one an “isolationist.” And...
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Iran Approaching Fission? I’m Talking Politics, Not Nukes…
The mullahs have stepped up their tempo of killing, both at home and abroad. The main difference is that the Iranian citizens who are tortured and executed are slaughtered by fellow-Iranian...
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MAD in the 21st Century
Mutually Assured Destruction may have been a sensible policy during the Cold War. It isn’t now.
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Obama’s Joke of a Counterterrorism Strategery
Mount Obama belched forth a mousy counterterrorism strategy, which you can read here in its inglorious en...
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Let Them Eat Kim
By J. Peter Pham This week, one day after Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates publicly confirmed that Kim Jong-Il’s regime had indeed been aiding Syria in its clandestine at...
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La Larga Guerra
Hace 5 años este mes, las tropas americanas liberaron el Irak de Sadam Hussein. Y luego vino lo difícil. La inteligencia americana se había equivocado respecto al ar...
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The Long War
Yes, we've been in Iraq five years and counting; and yes, the outcome counts.
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Questions for the Pentagon: Who is Hesham Islam?
In the sorry tradition of shooting the messenger, the Pentagon is cashiering its top expert on Islamist doctrine, Stephen Coughlin. Some members of Congress are now contemplating hearings to ask...
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Time to Rethink Afghanistan Strategy?
In the wake of the daring U.S. special ops strike that killed Osama bin Laden on Sunday, many critics are calling on President Obama to declare victory and pull out of Afghanistan. As they note,...
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Marine Corps and Peace Corps
I was north of Kandahar, flying in a helicopter with an American general who was telling me more than I could absorb about rural irrigation systems. I asked if he had ever imagined, back when he...
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The Senate and the No-Fly Zone: The Legend Begins
Out of extremely thin air, the Obama administration is now conjuring the narrative that Congress actually did approve a Libyan no-fly zone before President Barack Obama signed onto the project wi...
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Syria’s Assad No Longer in Vogue
It was slow in coming, but the Arab revolutionary wave of 2011 has reached Syria. Its arrival has forced a reassessment of the Bashar al-Assad regime’s domestic legitimacy and prospects for...
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Backseat for U.S. on Libya Airstrikes?
Sunday morning, the United States’ most senior uniformed officer described the military campaign against Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi as “limited.” Appearing on NBC’s &ld...
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Reagan at 100: The 40th President, American Security and Missile Defense
Co-Authored with Lt. Gen. Henry A. Obering III (USAF, ret.) A century ago, on Feb. 6th, 1911, Ronald Reagan was born. Much has been written about his presidential leade...
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New Investigation Into Murder of Daniel Pearl Released
On Thursday, The Center for Public Integrity released a new report detailing the circumstances of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl's kidnapping and murder. The report confirms that...
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Missile Malpractice
Show me where in the Constitution it says the government — created by the people in order to serve the people — is empowered to mandate that those selfsame people buy health insurance...