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Articles by Baker Spring

Reid’s Sleight-of-Hand Debt Ceiling Plan Guts Military

Baker Spring | July 27, 2011

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D–NV) introduced legislation to raise the debt ceiling this week. In evaluating his plans for future government spending, it becomes… Read More

‘Gang of Six’ Plan Could Gut Defense

Baker Spring | July 21, 2011

This week, Representative Buck McKeon (R–CA), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, released a memorandum to Republicans on the committee. He appropriately criticized the… Read More

White House Deceptive, Not Schizophrenic, on Nuclear Weapons

Baker Spring | July 11, 2011

Keir A. Lieber and Daryl G. Press, in their short piece of July 6 in Foreign Affairs, assert that the Obama Administration’s nuclear weapons policy… Read More

Yet Another Negotiating “Achievement” of the U.S. Department of State

Baker Spring | June 03, 2011

New START, a strategic arms control treaty with the Russian Federation that entered into force in February, is disadvantageous for the United States and advantageous… Read More

U.S. and NATO Should Reject Russian Demands on Missile Defense

Baker Spring | May 23, 2011

According to The New York Times, Russia is seeking written guarantees that missile defense systems deployed in Europe by the U.S. and NATO in the… Read More

Sea-Based Missile Defense Test Success a Major Step Forward

Baker Spring | April 15, 2011

In the wee hours of the morning of April 15, the U.S. Navy conducted a successful test of its Aegis ballistic missile defense system. The… Read More

Russian Control of U.S. Missile Defenses? Just Say No.

Baker Spring | April 11, 2011

According to The Telegraph of London on April 8, Russia is demanding direct operational control of U.S. and allied missile defense systems in negotiations regarding… Read More

The Senate’s Letter to Prevent the Space Code of Conduct: Issues Remain

Baker Spring | February 10, 2011

On February 2, 37 U.S. Senators signed a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton seeking information about the Obama Administration’s reported plans to join… Read More

New START Ratification: Senate Should Be Suspicious

Baker Spring | February 03, 2011

President Obama yesterday signed the U.S. instrument of ratification for the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) with Russia yet did not release the… Read More

Russian Duma’s Impending Action on New START Could Spell Trouble for the Treaty

Baker Spring | December 30, 2010

It now appears likely that the Russian Duma will attach an understanding to the new strategic nuclear arms control treaty with the U.S., known as… Read More

The Illusory Linkage Between Nuclear Modernization and New START

Baker Spring | December 21, 2010

The U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations recently published a summary of the continuing resolution (CR) that would allow continued government operations through March 4, 2011…. Read More

Ground-Based Midcourse Defense Failure?

Baker Spring | December 21, 2010

On December 15, the Missile Defense Agency conducted an unsuccessful test of Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD), a long-range ballistic missile defense system designed to protect… Read More

Rocket Modernization Roadmap Needed Before New START Vote

Baker Spring | December 16, 2010

It is an obligation of the Congress to make sure that the United States will focus more on preservation of its strategic triad, especially its… Read More

Why the Rush on New START, Mr. President?

Baker Spring | December 06, 2010

In his most recent op-ed, Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, asks why there is a rush to pass New START, a strategic offensive… Read More

More Senators Against The New START Vote In The Lame Duck

Baker Spring | November 16, 2010

There has been increasing opposition from Republican Senators to vote for New START, a nuclear strategic offensive arms control agreement with the Russian Federation, during… Read More

Incident Underscores Need to Modernize U.S. Nuclear Arsenal and Rethink New START

Baker Spring | November 09, 2010

On October 24, 2010, at the Warren Air Force base in Wyoming, the United States Air Force lost communication with a sizeable portion of America’s… Read More

Missile Defense Criticism of Sen. DeMint is Off Target

Baker Spring | September 30, 2010

The Obama Administration has stated on numerous occasions that there is “no way, no how” the New START treaty, a nuclear arms control agreement between… Read More

New START Proponents Drag Out Same Tired Argument

Baker Spring | September 23, 2010

Give the proponents of New START credit for “staying on message” regarding the reasons why they think the Senate should consent to the ratification of… Read More

New START and the Moscow Treaty: A Response to Walter Pincus

Baker Spring | August 12, 2010

Washington Post reporter Walter Pincus, in his August 10 article “New START: A Similar Arms Reduction Pact but a Different Republican Reaction,” argues that Republican… Read More

New START: Increasing the Risk of Nuclear War

Baker Spring | August 11, 2010

According to the translation of an article appearing in the Russian newspaper Suvorovskiy Natisk on July 17, the Vostok 2010 Russian military exercise concluded with… Read More

What Missile Defense and Nuclear Disarmament Have in Common

Baker Spring | August 02, 2010

Responding to James Carafano’s July 29 critique of New START, William Hartung asserts that the proposed nuclear arms treaty imposes no limitations on U.S. missile defense… Read More

Does State Care if Russia Cheats on Nuclear Weapons or Not?

Baker Spring | July 29, 2010

The State Department is sorely upset about July 28 headlines in The Washington Post and The Washington Times about a recent Department report on Russian… Read More

What the Post Gets Wrong on New START

Baker Spring | July 26, 2010

The Washington Post has arrived at the conclusion, in a July 26 editorial, that the New START arms control agreement with Russia should be ratified… Read More

New START: White House Figures Are Deceptive

Baker Spring | July 21, 2010

According to press reports, an undisclosed State Department report on the new strategic arms control treaty with Russia, called New START, reveals that the Obama… Read More

$500 Hammers? U.S. Military Can Find Ways to Trim the Fat

Baker Spring | June 21, 2010

Nobody likes wasteful government spending, whether it’s $500 hammers at the Pentagon or federal employees using Uncle Sam’s credit cards to buy personal cameras, laptop… Read More

Bigger Isn’t Necessarily Better for the Military

Baker Spring | June 18, 2010

As your mother probably told you (many times), bigger isn’t necessarily better. And yet that’s too often the approach the military uses to determine whether… Read More

Towards a More Efficient Military

Baker Spring | June 17, 2010

If you’ve ever waited in line at the DMV or tried to contact the IRS for help with your taxes, you’re no doubt aware that… Read More

Is There a Secret Obama Deal to Limit Missile Defense?

Baker Spring | June 17, 2010

Only in Obama’s Orwellian world can secret negotiations to kill missile defense not mean the White House plans to kill missile defense. These secret negotiations… Read More

Obama Surrenders to Russia Again

Baker Spring | June 11, 2010

It seems that weak negotiating with Russia is becoming a habit for the Obama Administration. After signing a one-sided arms control deal with Russia on… Read More

SM-3 Necesssary and Effective, But Not Sufficient, for Missile Defense

Baker Spring | May 21, 2010

Once again, George N. Lewis and Theodore A. Postol are asserting that midcourse missile defense interceptors will not work. This latest attack on the missile… Read More

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