Preserving the Warrior Ethos
It is corroded, and the necessary restorative work belongs to us all
Watergate scandal
Biden Revives the Truman Doctrine
His call to wage a global war for freedom echoes the dawn of the Cold War.
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Making sure foreign enemies fear the United States military
Strategies must cover conventional, asymmetrical or any types of 'stupid' attacks
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The Shuttered White House and Its Fantasies
I know exactly what is going on inside the Obama White House; the outside world has been banned and only the true believers are welcome. This has very little to do with the many unique f...
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Lead, Senator
The McCain campaign reassures on surveillance reform, but …
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FISA Reform Debacle in the Making?
Collecting intelligence and connecting dots isn’t just good policy. It’s good politics. The reform of FISA -- the ill-conceived, outdated Foreign Intelligence Surveillance...
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Are These Senators Ready to be President?
What passes for the world’s greatest deliberative body is back in session this week, which means it’s time for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to remember they actually have day jobs...
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Another National-Security Flip-Flop
No sooner did Victor Davis Hanson compile a prodigious list of national-security flip-flops by the Obama Left (posted on the Corner under the title “If We Say It Is, It Is . . . ”) th...
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Inconsistent Interrogation Tales
As the controversy continues over what and when Speaker Nancy Pelosi knew about the CIA's use of enhanced interrogation methods (EIM), there is a significant overlooked dimension to this Was...
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Getting FISA Wrong . . . Again
A federal court in California has dismissed a civil lawsuit that alleged surveillance violations against a Muslim charity the government has formally designated as supporter of al-Qaeda and other...
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Too Much Make-Believe
In the early years of the Bolshevik Revolution, Russia was effectively cut off from all sources of raw film stock. Luckily for the Soviets, cheap copies of the silent films imported during the wa...
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The Intelligence Mess
(Editor's note: This article first appeared in April 2004.) Intelligence-gathering is something of a square peg in the round hole of contemporary political morality. It is about unearthing t...
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Dead Man Walking
The Supreme Court's decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld is a national-security disaster. Forget about its undermining of military commissions. Forget...
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Liberty vs. Terror Review of Protecting Liberty In An Age Of Terror by Philip B. Heyman
In a poisonous atmosphere where worthy debates over the Patriot Act and domestic surveillance are marred by risible analogies to the worst excesses of Watergate, a thoughtful book by two former h...
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Did the CIA “Out” Valerie Plame?
What the mainstream media tells the court ... but won't tell you.
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Free Speech for Terrorists?
The nexus in militant Islam between advocacy and actual savagery is no longer contestable. It has been the subject of too much informed analysis and, more importantly, is an empirically demonstra...
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Scandal!
The president's critics are lying. Mr. Bush never claimed that Saddam Hussein had purchased uranium from Niger. It is not true — as USA Today reported on page one Friday morning &mdash...
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The Democrats’ Dilemma
Democrats face a dilemma: The war on terrorism has restored national security as a priority issue just as a new presidential-election campaign is beginning to take shape. That's a p...