Obama’s ‘Nuclear Zero’ Rhetoric is Dangerous
Recent threats from North Korea have led the Obama administration to reverse some of its previous decisions and to build...
Douglas Feith
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A Foreign Policy Failure to Acknowledge the Obvious
A month after the murder of four American officials in Libya on Sept. 11, congressional testimony and leaked government cables...
How the Russian ‘Reset’ Explains Obama’s Foreign Policy
As violent mobs shouting Islamist slogans rampaged against U.S. diplomats across the Middle East and Southeast Asia in the weeks...
Radio-Free Swat Valley
ON March 5, in the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan, forces believed to be affiliated with the Taliban bombed the shrine...
Inside the inside story
Echoes of "slam dunk" so vex former Central Intelligence Agency Director George Tenet that he has written a book....
Transforming the United States Global Defense Post
The policy organization at the Pentagon does two main kinds of work. There are the day-today tasks, drafting instructions for...
Remarks to the Council on Foreign Relations
Presenter: Douglas J. Feith, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (Particpating was Robert Gallucci) Feith: Good Evening. Thank you, Bob,...
DOD Briefing on Intelligence Matters
(Participating were Douglas J. Feith, under secretary of defense for policy, and William J. Luti, deputy under secretary of defense...
Post-War Planning
Statement by Douglas J. Feith, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Mr. Chairman and Members...
The War on Terrorism — America’s War and Israel’s
SPEECH BY DOUGLAS J. FEITH, UNDER SECRETARY OF DEFENSE FOR POLICY, TO AMERICAN-ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE It's good to have...
Go Ahead: Let Arafat Declare His State
Imagine that yasir arafat does the dread deed and unilaterally declares Palestine's independence on September 13. Israeli and American officials...
Mideast Peace Under Arabs? Control
On this date 44 years ago, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 181, the Partition Plan for Palestine. The...
Live Missiles and Dead Letters
WITH missile threats proliferating, the issue of national missile defense, which has divided Republicans from Democrats for 15 years, is...
About as Radical as The Reaganites
Not since Ronald Reagan beat Jimmy Carter in 1980 has an election triggered such consternation from commentators anxious about peace....
Senate Testimony Regarding Ratification of Chemical Warfare Convention
Senate Testimony Regarding Ratification of Chemical Warfare Convention April 9th, 1997 STATEMENT OF DOUGLAS J. FEITH, FORMER DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY...
Chemical Reaction
ONE of the less-noticed legacies of Saddam Hussein is now being considered by the Senate: the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC),...