The dot-connector
(Washington, D.C.): Nearly two years ago, in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, official Washington was seized with The...
Defense
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...
Mixed signals on proliferation
(Washington, D.C.): To his credit, President George W. Bush used his trip to Europe last weekend to promote a new...
Rebasing — and Reequipping — for Transformation
(Washington, D.C.): Today's Wall Street Journal details one of the most important aspects of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's drive...
Center hails critical milestone for transformational ‘Osprey’
While the Marine Corps-Special Operations tiltrotor aircraft's official title is the Osprey, its extraordinary developmental history is more reminiscent of...
‘Transformation, part deux’
(Washington, D.C.): George W. Bush made a central plank of his 2000 campaign platform the "transformation"of the U.S. military. By...
Shooting the messenger
(Washington, D.C.): Official Washington is notorious for its tendency to respond to unwelcome performance assessments by "shooting the messenger." The...
Reagan’s vision
(Washington, D.C.): Twenty years ago this Sunday, President Ronald Reagan made a nationally televised address, most of whose contents have...
Hail to the Chief
(Washington, D.C.): These are, as Thomas Paine once put it, the times that try men's souls. Most especially, this moment...
Why China isn’t helping disarm North Korea
(Washington, D.C.): According to today's Washington Post, Secretary of State Colin Powell yesterday said that the People's Republic of China's...
George Bush’s finest hour
(Washington, D.C.): President Bush has been getting a lot of free advice lately about what he should say in his...
Will the Bush Team Staff up to Stop a Nuclear Melt-down?
(Washington, D.C.): Ever since North Korea's dictator, Kim Jong-Il, broke bad -- acknowledging cheating on his promises to forego nuclear...
Serious about defending America
(Washington, D.C.): Some good may yet come in the wake of the disastrous decision to permit North Korean ballistic missiles...
Redefining ‘Regime Change’
(Washington, D.C.): Bill Clinton's administration was caricatured, and the last vestiges of his reputation shredded, with his famous dodge "It...
Get On With It: Time To Deploy Sea-Based Missile Defenses
Last week, the Pentagon demonstrated for the third time in a row the inherent feasibility of recommendations insistently advanced over...
What We Have To Be Thankful For: Our Men And Women In Uniform
(Washington, D.C.): On the eve of the Thanksgiving holiday, the Washington Post op.ed. page featured one of the most moving...