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Climate Change Is Not a National Security Issue
On Monday, Oct. 5, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change released its most recent draft of a global climate change agreement ahead of the… Read More
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Deportation Numbers Have Dramatically Fallen. Is This Related to Obama’s Immigration Actions?
Deportations have fallen to the lowest point since 2006, according to unreleased government deportation data the Associated Press recently acquired. Furthermore, criminal immigrants being removed… Read More
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Obama Is Willing to Put Our National Security at Risk With a Veto
The Russians are bombing CIA-backed rebels in Syria and continuing to hold parts of Ukraine. ISIS continues to spread in the Middle East and inspire… Read More
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US Needs a Foreign Policy That Marginalizes Russia’s Ability to Mess With Us
The Kremlin is not our friend. Nor is Moscow a 10-foot-tall threat to our national interests. What America needs is a middling foreign policy that… Read More
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To Defeat ISIS, We Need a Leader Who’s Not Obama
When President Obama said at the United Nations on Tuesday that “defeating ISIL requires—I believe—a new leader,” I thought for a brief moment I’d finally… Read More
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Yes, the Benghazi Committee Has Been Important
Critics of the House select panel probing the Benghazi attacks, and the news media in general, have had a field day as the committee concluded its… Read More
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Obama Has Followed Through on the Obama Doctrine. That’s the Problem.
If there was one strong signal in President Obama’s speech to the United Nations this week, it was this: Don’t expect the American ship of… Read More
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5 Steps To Survive Any Hurricane (Including Joaquin)
The government isn’t very good at disaster response (it’s also slow). In all likelihood, in a major disaster, the feds won’t get there fast enough… Read More
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Defense Reform Is Far From Dead in Congress
Defense reform has gotten a lot of attention around Washington—from members of Congress and senior Pentagon leaders as well as the usual policy mavens and… Read More
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Thanks to Obama’s Poor Choices, ISIS Has Sophisticated Arms, Weapons
The Islamic State continues to wreak havoc in Iraq and Syria. The extremist Islamic group, unmatched in its atrocities, has slaughtered hundreds of innocent Christians,… Read More
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As US Begins to Admit More Syrian Refugees, Senators Seek to Know It’s Safe
As the United States begins to wade into the refugee crisis straining Syria’s neighbors, national security concerns competing against a swift resettlement response are dividing… Read More
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Special Forces Are Great, but They Require a Strong Conventional Military to Operate
Reuters recently reported on a contingent of U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) personnel in southern Niger assisting the West African country in its battle against… Read More
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8 Important Takeaways From the 2016 Defense Authorization Act
On Thursday the House (with the Senate shortly thereafter) will vote on the final version of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016…. Read More
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While Iran Receives Billions From Lifted Sanctions, the U.S. Military Is Cut by Billions
There are many reasons to think that the Iran nuclear deal is an awful agreement—one of those being the $150 billion (or so) that Iran… Read More
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4 Highlights From Obama’s Ridiculous Cyber Agreement With China
Last week, the White House announced that the U.S. and China had agreed to stop cyber economic espionage and work together to stop cybercrime. Well,… Read More
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Even the “Lone Wolf” Lives in a Crowd
Because of the rising number of “home-grown terrorists,” the Escondido, CA, Police Department has developed an antiterrorist program that emphasizes the importance of establishing relationships… Read More
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Obama’s Foreign Policy Doctrine: The Worse, the Better
What a mess. President Obama says he wants to take in at least 10,000 refugees from the Middle East. Meanwhile, Russia’s Vladimir Putin is sending fighter aircraft and… Read More
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Intelligence Analysts Claim US CENTCOM Altered Their Reports
Intelligence analysts can make no more serious a charge than to claim that somebody altered their work and their assessments. It goes to the very… Read More
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Argument for Giving Law Enforcement Special Access to Encrypted Systems Falls Short
In the continuing debate over whether law enforcement and intelligence officials should have some sort of special access to encrypted communications, officials are arguing that… Read More
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The Refugee Crisis Is Going to Get Worse
Hundreds of thousands of migrants are leaving the Middle East, heading to what they see as the promised lands of Europe and, if possible, America…. Read More
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Forget the Talking Points. What Should the US Really Spend on Defense?
The debate about defense spending will likely reignite this month as Congress returns from recess and the end of the fiscal year draws near. Unfortunately,… Read More
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Government Report Is Compelling Indictment of Obama’s ISIS Strategy
Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports will never be mistaken for a Tom Clancy novel. The editorial style is intended to be subdued and analytical—lest the… Read More
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Time for the White House to Develop a Serious Arctic Agenda
Washington is waking up to the fact that America is an Arctic nation. But, as in a doomed polar expedition, the administration seems to be… Read More
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Happy Birthday to the U.S. Air Force
On this day in 1947, President Harry S. Truman signed into law the National Security Act of 1947, which officially established the U.S. Air Force… Read More
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Eight Important Facts You Need to Know for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s Article 32 Hearing Prior to a Court-Martial
The Army will hold an Article 32 hearing for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl this week at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston. The hearing, which may… Read More
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What Comedy Can Teach Us About the Iran Deal
David Zucker, the Hollywood filmmaker best known for his 1980s movies “Airplane!” and “The Naked Gun,” is out with a new spoof on the Iran… Read More
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Another Hack With Another 10 Million Compromised
While the biggest names in the intelligence community testified last week on Worldwide Cyber Threats, news continued to break over another health insurance company being… Read More
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America’s Suffering From a Crisis of Confidence
Syria’s raging civil war has transfixed the West’s collective consciousness two summers in a row: last summer with ISIS’s unspeakable barbarity and in 2015 by… Read More
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China Just Sent a Message to America: Don’t Mess With Us
Napoleon Bonaparte is credited with saying some 200 years ago that “China is a sleeping giant. Let him sleep, for when he wakes, he will… Read More
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