Deterrence
New threats, old weapons
In Tuesday's Washington Post, Robert R. Monroe notes: "In the 13 years since the Cold War ended, the U.S. nuclear...
Remain, Rumsfeld
(Washington, D.C.): The London Economist Magazine last week emblazoned its front cover with the two-word headline "Resign, Rumsfeld." In so...
Chinese missile tests show fruits of US appeasement policy
On the eve of the pivotal March 20 Presidential election in Taiwan, the Washington Times reports that China has tested...
Qaddafi says US regime change policy convinced him to abandon WMDs
The US-led invasion of Iraq to disarm Saddam Hussein helped motivate Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi to volunteer to give up...
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...
Tools of transformation
George W. Bush made a central plank of his 2000 campaign platform the "transformation"of the U.S. military. The Administration cannot...
North Korea’s nuclear admission shows the regime must be confronted, not appeased
North Korea admits it's been lying to the world and secretly developing nuclear weapons. Now the Bush administration is under...
Review, But Renew, America’s Defenses
This week's announcement that the Bush Administration would not increase defense spending this year came as a bitter disappointment to...
Will Sam Nunn Give Political Cover’ to Left Disarmers?
In her column today, the Washington Post's unreconstructed liberal columnist, Mary McGrory, spilled the beans on the new agitprop organization...
Senior Military Leaders Urge Rejection of Ill-Considered U.S.-Russian Launch Notification Accord
(Washington, D.C.): Nineteen distinguished retired U.S. military commanders today warned President Clinton that a U.S.-Russian agreement expected to be signed...
Defining Issue: Bush Speech Offers Stark Alternative on Missile Defense, Nuclear Deterrence
(Washington, D.C.): For the first time in sixteen years, it appears that fundamental differences between the candidates on strategic deterrence...
Center Roundtable Shows Why C.T.B.T. Cannot Be ‘Fixed,’ Nuclear Testing is Required for Safe, Reliable Deterrent
(Washington, D.C.): Five days after Secretary of State Madeline Albright announced that former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
General Rowny’s Rx For Addressing the Military’s Growing Personnel Crisis
(Washington, D.C.): Over the past nearly six decades, one of the Nation's most distinguished military officers, Lieutenant General Edward Rowny...
When General Mundy Speaks, Everyone Should Listen
(Washington, D.C.): President Clinton's willingness to subordinate national security policy to expedient political considerations has once again been in evidence...
Kissinger Rebuts Clinton & Co.’s Claim that C.T.B.T. Was Defeated by Partisan Politics, Isolationists
(Washington, D.C.): In the wake of the United States Senate's decisive rejection of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) last...