Foreign Policy Luminaries Misguided on Missile Defense
Two elder statesmen of the foreign policy community have grown forgetful. In the April 23 Washington Post editorial section, Henry Kissinger and Brent Scowcroft reprise the Cold War and make an odd...
View ArticleState 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 law to unilaterally...
View ArticleWill President Obama Call for More Nuclear Arms Reductions?
President Obama will propose large-scale nuclear arms reductions worldwide in tonight’s State of the Union address, according to The New York Times. The White House, however, has stated that a proposal...
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Nuclear Weapons: The Case for a Robust Force
Newscom/BREUEL-BILD/Juri Reetz President Obama announced yesterday during a speech in Berlin that “peace with justice means pursuing the security of a world without nuclear weapons, no matter how...
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Russia’s Advantage: No Reason to Follow Obama’s Lead in Nuclear Arms Reductions
face to face/ZUMA Press/Newscom After President Obama made another pledge to reduce nuclear arms in Berlin last week, the underlying message seems to be that, if the United States continues marching...
View ArticleRussia Compliance Problem: How Obama's Policy Is Failing
In a recent article, Mark Schneider of the National Institute for Public Policy points out that Russia’s compliance issues with arms control treaties have worsened under Vladimir Putin. In 2007, Russia...
View ArticleHouse Members Step Up to Prevent U.S. Unilateral Nuclear Reductions
Representatives Mike Turner (R–OH), Mike Rogers (R–AL), Trent Franks (R–AZ), and Jim Bridenstine (R–OK) offered an amendment to the House fiscal year 2014 energy and water development bill that would...
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Reduced Nuclear Arms: Slimmer, but Not Smarter
Newscom Would reducing U.S. nuclear arms save taxpayers money? Former Pentagon policy official David J. Trachtenberg responded to Stimson Center co-founder Barry Blechman’s piece arguing that it would....
View ArticleWhy Ignoring Russian Arms Cheating Leaves the United States Vulnerable
The Obama Administration appears to be ignoring Russian violations of arms control agreements in favor of securing future agreements, which will eventually leave the United States vulnerable to...
View ArticleMinimum Deterrence: Examining the Evidence
The minimum deterrence posture, based on the premise that few nuclear weapons deter all adversaries, is unsubstantiated by historical evidence and contrary to vital U.S. national security interests,...
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Administration Plans to Cut ICBMs
Newscom The Washington Free Beacon reports that an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) squadron may be eliminated if the Obama Administration’s draft plan to cut it is implemented. Neither the...
View ArticleIran’s Shaky and Deceptive Nuclear Deal
The tentative nuclear deal that the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany) reportedly has reached with Iran has been widely hailed as a success for the Obama...
View ArticleIran Fails to Respond to Nuclear Deal
Despite the Obama Administration’s optimistic rhetoric about sealing a nuclear deal with Iran, Tehran again has thrown a monkey wrench into the nuclear negotiations by failing to meet today’s deadline...
View ArticleIran’s Brazen Gambit in the Nuclear Chess Game
Iran’s theocratic dictatorship once again has thrown up an obstacle to diplomatic resolution of the nuclear stalemate. The New York Times today reported that Iran has rejected the U.S-conceived,...
View ArticleThe Obama Administration: A Year of Living Dangerously
This week marks the one year anniversary of the president’s election to commander chief, but it seems more like an occasion for concern than for slapping high-fives. It is not hard to craft comparisons...
View ArticleMore Evidence of Iran Nuclear Duplicity
The Guardian reports today that the International Atomic Energy Agency has asked Iran to explain evidence that Iranian scientists have experimented with an advanced nuclear warhead design, but Tehran...
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They Waited Till Carter’s Third Year Before They Started Taking Hostages
Last week Heritage scholar James Carafano wrote: It is not hard to craft comparisons between Jimmy Carter and the current occupant of the Oval Office. Both entered office with high expectations; both...
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Iran’s Foreign Minister Rejects Nuclear Deal
Today Iranian Foreign Minister Manochehr Mottaki publicly rejected the U.N.-backed proposal to send about 70 percent of Iran’s known supplies of enriched uranium out of the country. Mottaki suggested...
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Iran’s IAEA Retaliation
Iran’s dictatorship claimed yesterday that it was provoked to announce the expansion of its nuclear program by a resolution passed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) last week that...
View ArticleIt’s Called Morale Mr. President – You Are Supposed to Provide It
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower once said: “Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars.” So why did President Obama choose last night’s address to further disintegrate what morale is...
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