Clinton Legacy Watch # 36: A Quixotic Crusade for an Unverifiable, Ineffective and Dangerous C.T.B.T.?
(Washington, D.C.): Like a fighter jet dumping flares and chaff to dodge an on-coming Iraqi missile, this year's State of...
Defense
The Clinton-Cohen Missile Defense Initiative:
Two Steps Forward, Three Steps Back?
(Washington, D.C.): Presumably it is coincidental. Last night, Representative Steve Largent of Oklahoma delivered part of the Republican response to...
If President Clinton is Serious About ‘The American People’s Business,’ Here’s What He Should Say is the State of the Union
(Washington, D.C.): According to today's New York Times, President Clinton is expected to deliver a State of the Union address...
C.W.C. Watch #3: U.S. Underestimating The Costs of One Ineffective Ban; Will It Repeat Them In Another?
(Washington, D.C.): On the last day of 1997, President Clinton submitted a misleading, one-paragraph certification to Congress in connection with...
Despite Purported Addition of ‘Out-Year’ Dollars, Clinton Still Balks at Deployment of Needed Missile Defenses
(Washington, D.C.): There he goes again. Yesterday's New York Times revealed that President Clinton has decided to "pledge about $7...
Clinton’s Defense Increases Look More Like Political ‘Triangulation’ Than A Cure For The Hollow Military
Pentagon's Own Data Shows It Needs Roughly Ten Times More (Washington, D.C.): On the eve of tomorrow's appearance of the...
Don’t Go There: Clinton Pentagon Evidently Still Tempted by Reckless Idea of Killing T.H.A.A.D. Anti-Missile System
(Washington, D.C.): Tomorrow, top Defense Department officials are scheduled to convene for a meeting nominally called to discuss the preparation...
Third Time’s a Charm? Yet Another Blue-Ribbon Group Warns Against Clinton’s ‘Denuclearization’ Agenda
Will Congress Take Heed -- and Corrective Action? (Washington, D.C.): Today's Washington Times gives front-page, above-the-fold treatment to a report...
Mirabile Dictu: The Washington Post Acknowledges The ‘AEGIS Option’s’ Promise for Missile Defense
(Washington, D.C.): For the first time, the Washington Post gave front-page treatment to an article concerning the most promising option...
Sen. Kerrey’s Trial Balloon: Clinton Next to Offer More Denuclearization in Exchange for Limited Missile Defense?
(Washington, D.C.): Today, Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-NE) used an appearance before the the Council on Foreign Relations in New York...
AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT CLINTON
January 15, 1998 Hon. William J. Clinton The White House Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear Mr. President: As you know, the...
1998 Keeper of the Flame Award: Donald Rumsfeld
In the company of roughly 350 fellow policy practitioners -- top legislators and congressional staff, executive branch officials (past and...
Omnibus Bill’s Defense Plus-Ups Offer Hope That Needed Priority Will be Given to Critical National Security Functions
(Washington, D.C.): The adage that one does not want to know what goes into the process by which sausages are...
So There Is A Missile Threat, After All: Clinton Pentagon Confirms Rumsfeld Commission’s Central Finding
(Washington, D.C.): Last Friday, top uniformed and civilian Pentagon officials made something of a spectacle of themselves on Capitol Hill....
Senate Given Another Opportunity to Reject Clinton’s Policy of Denuclearization: the Gottemoeller Nomination
(Washington, D.C.): One month ago, the U.S. Senate signaled strong disapproval of the Clinton Administration's "denuclearization" policies when forty-four Senators...
Wanted: An End to the ‘Hollow’ Military —
and A ‘Feasible,’ ‘Practical’ Missile Defense
(Washington, D.C.): At a tempestuous hearing today, the Senate Armed Services Committee heard the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of...