A Navy LOST?
October 09, 2007
Frank Gaffney, Jr.

The U.S. Navy: soon to be replaced by twenty-one judges in Hamburg, Germany.Irony of ironies: the principal champion of the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) is the United States Navy. Yet, it is predictable that few organizations would suffer more than America's naval forces from a supranational...

Reading the LOST compass
September 25, 2007
Frank Gaffney, Jr.

Come Thursday, the future of the United States Senate will begin to take shape. On that day, the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee will begin the first of two days of hearings on ratification of one of the most momentous international agreements in memory: the United Nation's Law of the Sea Treaty...

Russian LOST and found
August 08, 2007
Frank Gaffney, Jr.

Last week, Vladimir Putin's Russia used a bit of undersea derring-do to remind us that chess is its national sport. Two deep-ocean submersibles were dispatched to the Arctic floor ostensibly for the purpose of laying claim to the Lomonosov Ridge – and, more importantly, to the potentially vast...