Good News From Iowa
Straw polls are notoriously overrated. This observation applies especially to the over-hyped one held most recently in Ames, Iowa over...
Deterrence
Don’t Hollow Out the Military
Congress has now passed a bipartisan debt-ceiling agreement that seems to please no one, and there is the usual who-won-who-lost...
Obama’s Legacy
For some time, the outlines of an Obama Doctrine have been apparent. It can be summarized in nine damning words: ...
Gates’ Choice: His Damage to the All-Volunteer Force
In this space a few weeks ago, we discussed the peculiar case of outgoing Defense Secretary Robert Gates. He has...
Will the GOP Pull a ‘Pelosi’ on Patent Rights?
Remember how you felt when Nancy Pelosi told us that we would know what was in the Obamacare bill after...
Obama’s ‘Anti-missilephobia’
What are we to make of Barack Obama's attitude towards U.S. missile defenses? His past positions, his actions as president...
Scandalous air tanker decision: Despite corruption, EADS favored over U.S.-based Boeing
Within days, the Obama Pentagon is expected to decide which supplier to rely upon for what is, arguably, the cornerstone...
Forgetting about the ‘Saviors of Our Country’
In 1892, Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem about the paradigmatic British soldier, Tommy Atkins, and his paradigmatic treatment at the...
Peace Despite Weakness?
Two recent episodes offer an insight into a world in which the United States deliberately adopts a policy of pursuing...
The denuclearizers dangerous ambitions
Hold on to your hat. No sooner had the Senate finished approving the so-called New START Treaty by the closest...
Just Say NO to New START
The 111th Congress has been discredited by its arrogant disregard for the public and repudiated at the polls. President Obama...
Team Reagan vs. the establishment
The looming fight over President Obama's so-called New START disarmament treaty with Russia seems to be coming down to one...
National leaders join forces to oppose Obama demand that Senate rubber stamp New START in lame duck session
A formidable array of current and former leaders in the Senate and House of Representatives, together with top nuclear weapons...
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...
The illusory verification gap
President Obama and a fellow Democrat, Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, are demanding that the Senate ratify the New START...
The illusory verification gap
President Obama and a fellow Democrat, Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, are demanding that the Senate ratify the New START...