Jim Inhofe, Tom DeLay and Nina Shea: Legends in Their Own Time
(Washington, D.C.): Three individuals deserve special recognition for waging sometimes lonely fights against long odds on behalf of the national...
Defense Budget & Expenditures
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...
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...
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...
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...
Clinton Dare Not Gut Funding for Sea-Based Missile Defenses in Light of Strong Senate Support for the ‘AEGIS Option’
(Washington, D.C.): Clinton Administration officials intent on slashing the budget for the Navy's sea-based missile defense program were put on...
United States Senate
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December 6, 1999 The Honorable William S. Cohen Secretary of Defense 1000 Defense Pentagon Washington D.C. 20301-1000 Dear Secretary Cohen:...
Will Clinton-Gore Get Away with Killing the Most Promising Near-term Missile Defense System — The AEGIS Option?
(Washington, D.C.): Published press reports indicate that the Clinton Pentagon is actively considering seven options that would remove up to...
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...
Clinton Lets Trade Trump Security, Again
(Washington, D.C.): The World Trade Organization meeting that opens tomorrow in Seattle will provide an unparalleled backdrop for demonstrations by...
‘It’s U.S. Security, Stupid’
(Washington, D.C.): In 1980, Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan posed a single question with devastating effect for Jimmy Carter's reelection...
Memo to ‘W’: You Can’t Get to a Missile Defense Via the A.B.M. Treaty
(Washington, D.C.): Up in Maine, where the Bush family has long vacationed, there is an old joke about a native...
Bill Clinton, ‘New Isolationist’?
The U.S. Needs a Missile Defense That Defends its Allies, Too
(Washington, D.C.): As the worm turns! In the wake of the U.S. Senate's crushing rejection of the Comprehensive Test Ban...
Defending the Senate’s Constitutional Prerogatives: Lott is Right, Clinton-Albright Wrong on the Status of the C.T.B.T.
(Washington, D.C.): Subsequent to the Senate's crushing rejection of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) on 13 October, President Clinton,...