Team B vs. C.I.A.
By William SafireThe New York Times, 20 July 1998 Imagine you are the next U.S. President and this crisis arises:...
Defense
‘The Most Important Thing’: Columnist Safire Asks Why Television Media is Largely Ignoring Rumsfeld Warnings?
(Washington, D.C.): In the past twenty-four hours, William Safire -- one of the few pundits whose brilliance, courage and integrity...
ABC News Report Shows U.S. Air Force in No Condition To Be Saddled with A Service Secretary Unworthy of the Job
(Washington, D.C.): The appalling hollowing out of the U.S. military -- about which the Center for Security Policy has been...
Wall Street Journal Lauds Rumsfeld Commission Warning On Missile Threat; Reiterates Call for Aegis Option in Response
Contrast Between Paper's Editorial Quality and 'News' Reporting (Washington, D.C.): The Wall Street Journal's editorial page has once again distinguished...
Critical Mass # 2: Senator Lott, Rumsfeld Commission Add Fresh Impetus to Case for Beginning Deployment of Missile Defenses
(Washington, D.C.): In the past twenty-four hours, the Nation has been given not one but two timely wake-up calls: During...
General Donn Starry Takes on Senator Leahy’s Landmine Ban As New Small Arms Negotiations Demonstrate Anew Its Folly
(Washington, D.C.): On 8 July, the Senate's prime-mover behind an ill-advised ban on anti-personnel landmines (APLs) -- Senator Patrick Leahy...
Sen. Leahy’s Landmine Ban Takes Another Hit: General Wagner Urges CINCs’ Advice Be Heeded and Ottawa Treaty Rejected
(Washington, D.C.): Another authoritative voice has responded with devastating effect to representations by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) about the nature...
General Kroesen Rebuts Senator Leahy on Landmine Ban
(Washington, D.C.): On 19 June, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), the prime-mover in Congress behind efforts to ban anti-personnel landmines (APLs),...
Letter to Senator Leahy
1 July 1998 Honorable Patrick Leahy United States Senate Washington, D.C. 20510-4502 Dear Senator Leahy: Thank you for responding to...
No nukes pointed this way? Think again
By Michael WallerThe Washington Times, 06 July 1998 After years of assuring the public that no nuclear missiles are aimed...
Clinton Legacy Watch # 27: A Counterculture Assault On The U.S. Military and The National Sovereignty It Safeguards
A Case in Point: Daryl Jones’ Nomination to Head the Air Force
(Washington, D.C.): There is a singularly troubling aspect of the Clinton Administration's mismanagement of the defense and foreign policy portfolios:...
Irate Senate Supporters of the ‘AEGIS Option’ for Missile Defense Demand Release of Favorable Pentagon Study
(Washington, D.C.): In the course of Senate debate today on the Fiscal Year 1999 Defense Authorization bill, a colloquy occurred...
Flash: UNSCOM Concludes Iraq Is Still Cheating — Proof That Toppling Saddam’s Regime Is the Only Solution
Affirms Need for Bilateral Kyl-Landau Missile Defense Panel
(Washington, D.C.): If it were not so deadly serious, the latest news from Iraq would be hilarious: According to today's...
Critical Mass: The Republican Party Joins Burgeoning Effort to Defend America
(Washington, D.C.): In what may prove to be a truly historic development, Republican National Committee Chairman Jim Nicholson Sunday invited...
Missile Defense Imperatives
By Jim NicholsonThe Washington "This beautiful night, there is not a single nuclear missile pointed at a child in the...
Generals Al Gray, David Maddox Join Call for Senate to Protect U.S. Troops by Opposing Leahy Landmine Ban
(Washington, D.C.): Two of the Nation's most distinguished ground combat commanders -- former U.S. Marine Corps Commandant General Al Gray...