Afghanistan: Negotiating While Withdrawing Is Poor Strategy
In the wake of a U.S. Army staff sergeant’s murdering 16 Afghan civilians (mostly women and children), U.S. officials are contemplating the pace and scope… Read More
SM-3 Reductions: A Gift to Iran
In a recent article, Jeff Stier, a senior fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research, argued that the Administration’s proposal in the fiscal… Read More
Millennium Bomber to Remain in Prison Where He Belongs
On July 27, 2005, Ahmed Ressam was sentenced to 22 years in prison for attempting to detonate explosives at the Los Angeles International Airport on… Read More
Chinese Economic Espionage: An Overlooked Concern
If you heard that people based in a certain country completely compromised the computer systems of Nortel, a Canadian telecom firm that has since collapsed,… Read More
Cornering #Kony
While the rest of us were watching YouTube about the infamous Ugandan militia leader Joseph Kony, someone was actually doing something about Kony and the… Read More
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Global U.S.–Russian Rivalry Fuels Syria Clash in the U.N.
On Monday, Washington and Moscow clashed yet again in the U.N. Security Council over what to do about the bloody conflict in Syria. Neither side… Read More
Japan: One Year Later
Yesterday, Japan remembered. On March 11, 2011, an earthquake rocked the coast of Japan. The quake generated the largest recorded tsunami in modern Japanese history,… Read More
The Bitter Fruit of Libya’s “Arab Spring”
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Libyan Prime Minister Abdurrahim el-Keib yesterday and expressed optimism about Libya’s future. But Libya faces major problems in… Read More
The U.S. Does Not Need “International Permission” to Defend its Interests
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta’s comments earlier this week were a very revealing insight into the Obama administration’s mindset on the legal regime governing America’s… Read More
PODCAST: Obama Doctrine
In this week’s Heritage in Focus, Heritage expert Kim Holmes discusses President Obama’s foreign policy agenda, known as the Obama Doctrine. Click here to listen…. Read More
Non-Nuclear U.S. Means a Bleak Future for World Stability
“Nuclear weapons will continue to serve critical foreign- and defense-policy objectives,” write Bradley Thayer and Thomas Skypek in their recent op-ed. Since the end of… Read More
Readiness Concerns Point to a Bleak Future for U.S. Military
In a recent op-ed, defense expert Mackenzie Eaglen points to the USS Essex as an unfortunate example of concerns about military readiness. Equipment failures prevented… Read More
Hacker Down–Not So Anonymous Anymore
An ace hacker brought down by the FBI gave up enough on fellow members of the shadowy hackavist group Anonymous to indict six individuals in… Read More
Electromagnetic Pulse: Not If but When
“Electromagnetic Pulse and American Security,” a recent article by Eric Hannis, executive director at Etherton and Associates, is a welcome contribution to the discussion about… Read More
Thinking Big about Social Networks Down Under
Can Twitter get you killed? Can Facebook start and stop wars? Can terrorism be financed through Paypal, and might people arm themselves through eBay? These… Read More
Morning Bell: China’s Military Rising
In early January, President Barack Obama traveled across the Potomac River to the Pentagon and joined Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to discuss his Administration’s military… Read More
Move Toward a Minimal Deterrence Posture Dangerous
The “Obama proposal for force reduction is foolhardy,” writes Bradley Thayer, professor of political science at Baylor University, in his recent commentary. His post is… Read More
Obama Meets with Netanyahu: Opportunity for Action on Iran
When President Obama meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today, the Iranian nuclear weapons program will top the agenda. Israel, which perceives a nuclear-armed… Read More
The Wrong Adam Smith
If you are looking for a great example of a national leader who can’t get his priorities in order, look no further than Representative Adam… Read More
New START’s Fallout Keeps Failing to Make the U.S. Safer
According to Rebeccah Heinrichs, an adjunct fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, President Obama’s fiscal year 2013 budget request reveals that “that the… Read More
Protecting America from Online Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism
When 22-year-old Zachary Chesser was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison this past year, many casual observers wondered aloud how a middle-class kid from… Read More
An Anonymous War
Anonymous, the shadowy hactivist group, may have just declared war on the United States. This raises questions: How would we know, and what does this… Read More
Reducing National Security Cutter Fleet Threatens U.S. Sovereignty at Sea
In his recent budget request, President Obama cut funding for two Coast Guard National Security Cutters (NSC) that were slated to round out the fleet… Read More
Gut Ships and Planes, but Cybersecurity—Not So Fast
Futurists who applaud Obama for gutting conventional forces—ships, planes, and boots on the ground—and (allegedly) shifting to emerging, asymmetrical, or hybrid threats (pick your adjective… Read More
What to Do If Israel Attacks
What to make of the recent leaks that the Israelis are telling Washington, “If we attack, we won’t tell you first”? There is some speculation… Read More
Nuclear Reductions Should Not Be Driven by Numbers
“There are very solid grounds for re-evaluating our nuclear force structure,” writes Major General Paul Monroe (Ret.) in his recent Politico op-ed. He comes out… Read More
The Future Put on Hold
The Airborne Laser Test Bed (ALTB) was recently retired to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, primarily due to the assertion that “the program’s proposed operational… Read More
White House Fantasies on “Nuclear Zero”
Rose Gottemoeller, Acting Undersecretary for Arms Control and International Security, has reiterated the Administration’s commitment to nuclear arms control at the Getting to Zero Conference… Read More
Morning Bell: Obama Doctrine Failure
Three years ago, President Barack Obama set forth to recast American foreign policy in an image of his own design. It was one in which… Read More
