Now Hear This: The Commandant Speaks Out on the V-22
(Washington, D.C.): On last night's edition of PBS' "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," the Commandant of the Marine Corps, General James...
Defense Budget & Expenditures
The Osprey as Phoenix
(Washington, D.C.): Seems like a no-brainer. The new Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, is under orders to cut some big...
The Rumsfeld Effect’: Leadership on Missile Defense
(Washington, D.C.): A few years back, the conventional wisdom had it that the Soviet Union was an immutable fact of...
Rumsfeld Hits Two Home Runs
(Washington, D.C.): To say that once-and-future Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has had a busy week would be an understatement....
Prelude to Rumsfeld II’: Center Issues Summary of
(Washington, D.C.): On Thursday, a blue-ribbon, congressionally-mandated commission chaired by Secretary of Defense-designate Donald Rumsfeld will release a major new...
Space power: What is at stake, what will it take
On the day that nineteen distinguished retired U.S. military commanders warned President Clinton that a U.S.-Russian agreement expected to be...
Fuggedaboutit’: Gen. Shalikashvili’s Paean to C.T.B.T. is Wrong — as well as Dead on Arrival
(Washington, D.C.): Here we go again. The last gasp of the Clinton-Gore Administration apparently will be expended trying to breathe...
Bipartisanship on Defense Spending: Schlesinger and Brown Call for Sustained Increase in National Security Funding
(Washington, D.C.): As the Bush-Cheney team prepares to appoint its Secretary of Defense, the true -- and staggeringly high --...
Deploy Missile Defenses Now
(Washington, D.C.): The General's words were soothing but their implications were chilling. Supporters of Governor George W. Bush had been...
Commandant Jones Makes Case that a Strong U.S. Economy Depends Upon a Strong U.S. Military
(Washington, D.C.): Marine Corps Commandant James L. Jones recently took the case for increased defense spending to a constituency that...
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...
Rumsfeld II: The Secretary Strikes Back
(Washington, D.C.): In the Summer of 1998, the Clinton-Gore Administration was suddenly traumatized by a man named Donald Rumsfeld. For...
Clinton Legacy Watch # 53 A Preemptive Strike on Banning landmines?
(Washington, D.C.): Today, there are no fewer than three different inquiries underway aimed at assessing shortfalls in what the military...
The United States Cannot Maintain a Safe, Reliable and Effective Nuclear Deterrent Without Nuclear Testing
(Washington, D.C.): One of the early agenda items for the next President will be the matter of what to do...
Honor the Marines’ Sacrifice by Perfecting and Deploying the Osprey
(Washington, D.C.): In the wake of yet another tragic crash of the Marine Corps' revolutionary V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft and...
Russian Gambit on Buying Missile Defense at Cost of Nuclear Deterrence is a Non-STARTer
(Washington, D.C.): The Kremlin yesterday launched a new trial balloon with regard to missile defense. The next U.S. President --...