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DHS: Five Steps to Self-Improvement
Amid a slew of resignations from the Obama Administration, Janet Napolitano recently announced that she will be remaining in her post as Secretary of the… Read More
DHS Oversight Reforms: The Latest Casualty of Congressional Turf Wars
On January 13 the new Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee Mike McCaul (R–TX) announced to The Hill that he had no plans to… Read More
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Algeria Hostage Crisis: Why U.S. Bases in Europe Are Vital
Yesterday, Islamist militants seized a foreign-owned gas field in Algeria and took dozens of Western hostages, including several Americans. This attack was allegedly in response… Read More
Senator Jim DeMint: Missile Defense Works
What do welfare reform and missile defense have in common? Both were gutted under the Obama Administration, says Senator Jim DeMint, who will become Heritage’s… Read More
Navy Acknowledges Growing Readiness Concerns
The Navy has acknowledged its budgetary concerns and is hedging for further cuts by laying out priorities and describing what will be hit hardest, according… Read More
Nuclear Modernization, the State Department Would Have You Think
The State Department’s Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance recently published a fact sheet on “U.S. Nuclear Security Enterprise Infrastructure Modernization.” The name is… Read More
Get Poland Out of the Waiting Room and into the Visa Waiver Program
Last week, Heritage and The Wall Street Journal released the latest edition of the Index of Economic Freedom. Among its top performers is Poland, up… Read More
Will the Air Force of the Future Be Capable of Flying?
“Among the most difficult challenges facing the Air Force is the need to modernize,” writes Michael Donley, the Secretary of the Air Force. Despite major… Read More
Businesses Agree: Regulation Is the Wrong Approach to Cybersecurity
A new report by the Business Roundtable (BRT) affirms what Heritage analysts and other experts have been saying for years: Cybersecurity is best enhanced by… Read More
Shining the Light of Transparency on U.S. Public Diplomacy
Transparency in government took a huge step forward on January 3. On that day, President Obama signed into law the Smith–Mundt Modernization Act as an… Read More
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Iran Endorses Obama Pick Hagel for U.S. Secretary of Defense
Iran’s Foreign Ministry dumped more fuel on the fire of former Senator Chuck Hagel’s (R–NE) nomination for Secretary of Defense by announcing its approval for… Read More
Economic Development and Disaster Relief Inhibited by the Jones Act
If the Jones Act was created to mitigate disasters at sea, why has it been waived during such disasters? Such a question was posed in… Read More
State Department Board Recommendation: Ignore the Constitution, Break the Law
On November 27, a State Department advisory board, the International Security Advisory Board (ISAB), recommended that the Obama Administration ignore the Constitution and break the… Read More
DHS: Congressional Oversight Remains Broken
Today, the new and newly re-elected Members of the 113th Congress were sworn in, among them many members of the 108 total committees and subcommittees… Read More
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Some Good, Some Bad in National Defense Authorization Act
Last month, The Heritage Foundation compared the Senate and House versions of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) with Heritage’s policy positions on national security… Read More
Morning Bell: Uproar Over Bloated Sandy Aid Package
Leaders from New Jersey and New York blew up yesterday after House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) postponed a vote on an aid package related to… Read More
DEFENDING DEFENSE: Don’t Just Delay Defense Sequestration—Stop It
By delaying defense sequestration two months, President Obama and Congress have shown their unambiguous recognition that sequestration’s automatic and indiscriminate cuts to the U.S. military… Read More
Norman Schwarzkopf, RIP: Another Old Warrior Passes
General Norman Schwarzkopf, the man who led U.S. troops during the first Gulf War in 1991, died at 78 years old yesterday. Schwarzkopf was residing… Read More
North Korean Ballistic Missile Test: Worse to Come?
“A single nuclear weapon exploded a hundred miles above the United States could create electromagnetic pulse effects, thereby bringing our entire economy to a standstill,”… Read More
FISA Amendments Could Expire If Senate Doesn’t Act
On Thursday, the Senate is expected to begin consideration of H.R. 5949, the Foreign Intelligence Amendments Act of 2012 (FAA). The bill would reauthorize amendments… Read More
Fuzzy Numbers Drive Obama Hurricane Sandy Request
According to the Financial Times, the insurance industry estimates the total bill for insurers from Hurricane Sandy will be between $20 billion and $25 billion…. Read More
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Don’t Pull U.S. Troops Out of Europe
Throughout recent federal budget discussions, strategies to pull America out of recession, and the potential for massive cuts to national security, one cost cutting idea… Read More
Senator Inouye, The Passing of a Giant
Senator Daniel Inouye (D–HI) passed away last evening, an old warrior succumbed to complications of pneumonia. His last word was “Aloha.” Inouye was one of… Read More
Morning Bell: Rebuilding Communities
Many Americans will find it difficult to return to their daily routines today. The massacre at a Connecticut elementary school Friday, in which 26 people… Read More
Hurricane Sandy and FEMA Abuse
Last week, President Obama issued a request for $60.4 billion for Hurricane Sandy response and recovery. Yet as the fiscal cliff continues to loom nearby,… Read More
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How Sequestration Budget Cuts Could Affect U.K. Defense
If sequestration becomes a reality in January 2013, the Department of Defense (DOD) will cut another $500 billion from an already slashed defense budget. These… Read More
BioWatch Early Warning System Should Be Continued
Despite serving as the U.S.’s only defense against biological weapons, the BioWatch program is on the cutting board because of high cost and a large… Read More
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Morning Bell: North Korea Threatens with Successful Missile Launch
North Korea successfully launched a missile early Wednesday—a big step toward achieving the capability to hit targets in the United States. Under the transparent public… Read More
Surprise, Surprise: Report Finds Homeland Security Wasting Money
In his oversight report, “Safety at Any Price: Assessing the Impact of Homeland Security Spending in U.S. Cities,” Senator Tom Coburn (R–OK) highlights several examples… Read More
Pearl Harbor: Lessons for Missile Defense Today
On this day 71 years ago, the U.S. was attacked by the Empire of Japan. At the time, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared it… Read More
