New START, the unraveling
The past 48 hours have yielded some dramatic setbacks for President Obama in his drive to force the lame-duck Senate...
Defense
(Un)welcome to Washington, Senators-elect!
President Obama has set the stage for an acrimonious relationship with the newly elected Senators of the 112th Congress. As...
Bipartisan group of 15 former Senators urge Reid, McConnell to postpone deliberations on New START treaty
Washington, DC— As President Obama intensifies pressure on the United States Senate to take up and approve the New START...
Politicizing the Pentagon
It's bad enough that precious Pentagon resources are being expended supporting and securing President Obama's pasha-like excursion to India and...
Why New START is a non-starter
President Obama must be frantic. Among his most important personal and political priorities is ridding the world of nuclear weapons. ...
2010 Keeper of the Flame Award: James Conway
On the 14th of September, 2010, the Center for Security Policy honored outgoing Marine Commandant General James T. Conway at...
D-Day for the US military
The United States Senate is scheduled to vote Tuesday on a motion to proceed to debate on the annual defense...
Send away the Marines?
"Send in the Marines!" For many generations, successive U.S. presidents have given those orders, from early in our Nation's history...
Burning questions
How do you know your vacation has been too short? You leave behind one charlatan, whose concept of “building bridges”...
Dusk in Iraq
A troubling milestone arrived on Thursday when the US withdrew its final combat brigade from Iraq. The remaining 50,000 US...
National Security Policy Proceedings, vol. 2: Summer 2010
Purchase paperback Download free PDF National Security Policy Proceeding, vol. 2 - Summer 2010 This is the second issue of...
Disastrously ‘transforming’ defense
Barack Obama came to office promising to "fundamentally transform" America. As President, he has done so with most obvious and...
Is Petraeus going native?
It was bad enough when, two months ago, word got around that U.S. Central Command's commanding general, David Petraeus, had...
The western way of war
General Stanley McChrystal has paid a huge price for his decision to give Rolling Stone reporter Michael Hastings free access...
McChrystal remarks sad but not surprising
Gen. Stanley McChrystal's fall from grace in the aftermath of a Rolling Stone exposé revealing his utter contempt of the...
Dangerous Road: The Nuclear Policies of the Obama Administration
Purchase Paperback Download free PDF Dangerous Road On 8 April, 2010, President Obama and Russian President Medvedev signed the New...