Anti-anti-missile defense
(Washington, D.C.): A new front has recently been opened in the attack on President Bush's defense and foreign policies and...
Defense Budget & Expenditures
Active Measures
When voters are asked to evaluate their choices for President next November, they will have to weigh carefully the temperament,...
Disqualified? John Kerry’s record on national security
The front-page of today’s Washington Times draws on a series of Congressional Scorecards produced by the Center for Security Policy...
Transforming the United States Global Defense Post
The policy organization at the Pentagon does two main kinds of work. There are the day-today tasks, drafting instructions for...
What are we fighting for?
Amidst the incessant carping about the conduct of the post-major combat operations phase of the campaign to liberate Iraq, it...
The Blackout Next Time
(Washington, D.C.): Despite its inherent illogic, the notion that last weeks massive, cascading electrical blackout was a wake-up call seems...
Divided loyalties
(Washington, D.C.): A curious thing happens when conservatives are elected President of the United States -- particularly if they have...
The dot-connector
(Washington, D.C.): Nearly two years ago, in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, official Washington was seized with The...
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...
Mixed signals on proliferation
(Washington, D.C.): To his credit, President George W. Bush used his trip to Europe last weekend to promote a new...
Rebasing — and Reequipping — for Transformation
(Washington, D.C.): Today's Wall Street Journal details one of the most important aspects of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's drive...
Center hails critical milestone for transformational ‘Osprey’
While the Marine Corps-Special Operations tiltrotor aircraft's official title is the Osprey, its extraordinary developmental history is more reminiscent of...
‘Transformation, part deux’
(Washington, D.C.): George W. Bush made a central plank of his 2000 campaign platform the "transformation"of the U.S. military. By...
Shooting the messenger
(Washington, D.C.): Official Washington is notorious for its tendency to respond to unwelcome performance assessments by "shooting the messenger." The...
Reagan’s vision
(Washington, D.C.): Twenty years ago this Sunday, President Ronald Reagan made a nationally televised address, most of whose contents have...
Hail to the Chief
(Washington, D.C.): These are, as Thomas Paine once put it, the times that try men's souls. Most especially, this moment...