Despite Purported Addition of ‘Out-Year’ Dollars, Clinton Still Balks at Deployment of Needed Missile Defenses
(Washington, D.C.): There he goes again. Yesterday's New York Times revealed that President Clinton has decided to "pledge about $7...
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Clinton’s Defense Increases Look More Like Political ‘Triangulation’ Than A Cure For The Hollow Military
Pentagon's Own Data Shows It Needs Roughly Ten Times More (Washington, D.C.): On the eve of tomorrow's appearance of the...
Don’t Go There: Clinton Pentagon Evidently Still Tempted by Reckless Idea of Killing T.H.A.A.D. Anti-Missile System
(Washington, D.C.): Tomorrow, top Defense Department officials are scheduled to convene for a meeting nominally called to discuss the preparation...
Third Time’s a Charm? Yet Another Blue-Ribbon Group Warns Against Clinton’s ‘Denuclearization’ Agenda
Will Congress Take Heed -- and Corrective Action? (Washington, D.C.): Today's Washington Times gives front-page, above-the-fold treatment to a report...
Mirabile Dictu: The Washington Post Acknowledges The ‘AEGIS Option’s’ Promise for Missile Defense
(Washington, D.C.): For the first time, the Washington Post gave front-page treatment to an article concerning the most promising option...
Sen. Kerrey’s Trial Balloon: Clinton Next to Offer More Denuclearization in Exchange for Limited Missile Defense?
(Washington, D.C.): Today, Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-NE) used an appearance before the the Council on Foreign Relations in New York...
AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT CLINTON
January 15, 1998 Hon. William J. Clinton The White House Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear Mr. President: As you know, the...
Omnibus Bill’s Defense Plus-Ups Offer Hope That Needed Priority Will be Given to Critical National Security Functions
(Washington, D.C.): The adage that one does not want to know what goes into the process by which sausages are...
So There Is A Missile Threat, After All: Clinton Pentagon Confirms Rumsfeld Commission’s Central Finding
(Washington, D.C.): Last Friday, top uniformed and civilian Pentagon officials made something of a spectacle of themselves on Capitol Hill....
Senate Given Another Opportunity to Reject Clinton’s Policy of Denuclearization: the Gottemoeller Nomination
(Washington, D.C.): One month ago, the U.S. Senate signaled strong disapproval of the Clinton Administration's "denuclearization" policies when forty-four Senators...
Wanted: An End to the ‘Hollow’ Military —
and A ‘Feasible,’ ‘Practical’ Missile Defense
(Washington, D.C.): At a tempestuous hearing today, the Senate Armed Services Committee heard the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of...
Critical Mass #4: Emerging Missile Threat Concentrates the Minds of U.S. Allies; Japanese Admiral Urges End to ABM Treaty
(Washington, D.C.): Samuel Johnson's phrase that hanging "concentrates the mind wonderfully" is an apt metaphor for the effect palpable missile...
It’s About Time: Increase in Defense Budget Should Be Matched by Course Corrections on Tech Transfer, Missile Defense
(Washington, D.C.): According to today's Wall Street Journal, Secretary of Defense William Cohen and the Joint Chiefs of Staff are...
Shame, Shame Redux: As Clinton Presidency Melts Down, 41 Democrats Continue Filibuster of Bill to Defend America
(Washington, D.C.): For the second time in four months, forty-one Senate Democrats voted to prevent debate on a bill that...
Only the Clinton Team Could Respond to North Korean, Other Emerging Missile Threats by Canceling Near-Term T.H.A.A.D.
(Washington, D.C.): The Clinton Administration is reportedly poised to unveil its first substantive response(1) to Sunday's demonstration by North Korea...
R.I.P. C.T.B.: Biden-Specter Amendment’s Phyrric Victory Shows Decisive Senate Opposition to Clinton’s Flawed Test Ban
(Washington, D.C.): Yesterday, the U.S. Senate handed the first crushing defeat to a major presidential arms control initiative since its...