State of the Union: Senator Helms Does Speak for More Americans on U.S. Sovereignty than Clinton, Albright or the UN
(Washington, D.C.): Every one in a while, some good comes from even the most shameless acts of self-promotion. Last week,...
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Try, Try Again: In Light of Threat, the Appropriate Response to Missile Defense Test Failure is a Redoubled Effort
(Washington, D.C.): With the as-yet-unexplained failure of the Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV) to intercept a mock warhead during its second...
Beware the ‘Grand Compromise’: Arms Control Deal Threatens Effective U.S. Missile Defenses, Nuclear Deterrence
(Washington, D.C.): Last week, Russia served notice that it was adopting a new nuclear doctrine. The change, which we are...
Israeli Control of the Golan Remains Strategically Critical
(Washington, D.C.): Today's Washington Post gives front-page treatment to a study released last month by the Tel Aviv University's Center...
U.S. Forces on the Golan Heights?
General John Foss (USA, Ret.), Commanding General U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command; formerly responsible for U.S. forces in the...
Who is Vladimir Putin?
p>(Washington, D.C.): The American make-over of Russia's new acting President, Vladimir Putin, has begun. Clinton National Security Advisor Samuel Berger...
Sharon Says ‘No’ to the Golan’s Surrender
(Washington, D.C.): The U.S.-brokered, high-level negotiations between Israel and Syria resuming today in Sheperdstown, West Virginia come against the backdrop...
‘Assisted Suicide’ For Israel, and Other Clinton Legacies
(Washington, D.C.): News flash: The Prime Minister of Israel, Ehud Barak, has been, for all intents and purposes, incarcerated in...
Post-Mortem on the Russian Elections: What ‘Centrists’?
(Washington, D.C.): In the aftermath of last weekend's elections for the Russian legislature, the conventional wisdom had it that the...
Wisdom of Senate Rejection of C.T.B.T. Confirmed as ‘Alternative to Testing’ Runs into Technical, Political Trouble
(Washington, D.C.): A hardy perennial of the sales job for President Clinton's Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) has been that...
Security Meltdown at State Department Start at the Top
(Washington, D.C.): When Congress gets back to town next month, one of its first agenda items had better be an...
Will the Syrian-Israeli ‘Peace Process’ Give War a Chance?
(Washington, D.C.): When Syrian and Israeli negotiators reconvene their negotiations in Washington next month, they may or may not make...
Bipartisan Group of Thirty-two Members of Congress Joins Rising Chorus for the ‘AEGIS Option’ on Missile Defense
(Washington, D.C.): On 14 December, thirty-two Republican and Democratic legislators led by Rep. David Vitter (R-LA) wrote Secretary of Defense...
Center Marks Canal Hand-over Day by Releasing Summary of Roundtable: U.S. Action is Ill-Advised, Potentially Dangerous
(Washington, D.C.): In the wake of Columbian Marxist guerrillas' lethal attack near the border with Panama and on the day...
Now‘s the Time to Address the Costs of a Golan Deal
(Washington, D.C.): "Premature." That's the word Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and other Administration officials are using to finesse legitimate...
Don’t Give Syria Life-support in Exchange for a Phony Peace
(Washington, D.C.): In the midst of the hype over the latest "breakthrough" in the so-called Middle East "peace process" --...