Securing America’s energy needs
Seemingly unrelated events of the past week suggest considerable trouble ahead for U.S. vital interests. As President Bush puts the...
Year: 2006
Christmas Greetings to Guantanamo
At holiday time it is customary for soldiers deployed to remote locations around the world to receive cards from a...
Surge protector
Suddenly, "surge" is the talk of the town. Gone, for the moment at least, is "surrender" - the leitmotif, if...
Perspectives on the Brazilian elections
What to expect of Lula's Second Term The upcoming months will bring tough challenges for Da Silva who has been...
Shareholder democracy goes to war
Today's Wall Street Journal marks an important breakthrough on the financial front in the War for the Free World, a...
Baker’s poisoned fruits
It seems as though poison is much in vogue at the moment. For example, Russia's emerging dictator, Vladimir Putin, appears...
Center’s Kyl and Woolsey warn against negotiating
In the wake of the submission to President Bush and the Congress of the Iraq Study Group's report, members of...
R.I.P. Jeane Kirkpatrick
With the passing of Jeane Kirkpatrick earlier today, the Nation lost one of its most accomplished public servants and skilled...
Farewell John Bolton
(Washington, D.C.): Today's announcement that John Bolton will forego further efforts to remain at his post as the (ironically named)...
Iraq Surrender Group
On Wednesday, an unelected, unaccountable and substantially unqualified commission will formally report what hasn't already been leaked about its recommendations...
Adapting to Networked Insurgencies
"Adapting to Networked Insurgencies" is written by Martin J. Muckian and was published in Parameters, the journal of the U.S....
The forgotten project: Afghanistan and its future
By Dat Cao Mr. Cao is a former research intern with the Center for Security Policy and a student of...
Policing in an Age of Terror: Prevention is Best
London's Metropolitan Polic A couple of weeks before the anniversary of the deadly July 7, 2005 terrorist attacks in London,...
The new groupthink
We are, as the saying goes, between Iraq and a hard place. Unfortunately, events this week seem likely to drive...
Why North Korea’s nukes?
The ongoing nuclear goings-on in North Korean have been greeted with a mixture of incredulity, outrage, confusion, and even downright...