The Twin Tragedies of War and Peace in Iraq
by Dr. Miklos K. Radvanyi Based on the bilateral agreement President George W. Bush signed in 2008, the last contingent of the United States military left Iraq on December 18,…
Keeping the Bear at Bay
Helping Europe with missile defense would show Russia that the U.S. is serious. The U.S. needs to show that Putin’s ambition will be checked. by Peter Roff The world –…
Rep. Mike Rogers on Missile Defense
Congressman Mike Rogers gave the following remarks in a speech at the NDIA-AFA-ROA Congressional Breakfast Seminar Series on nuclear deterrence, missile defense, arms control, proliferation and defense policy, hosted by…
Providing for the Common Defense
by Peter Huessy Forty-three years ago, on Memorial Day 1971, I was traveling home to Vermont following two years of study at the International Division of Yonsei University in Seoul…
The Flickering Shadows of Russia and Ukraine
by Dr. Miklos K. Radvanyi In his Allegory of the Cave Plato asserts that the universe revealed by our senses is not the actual world but the shadow of reality.…
What About Meriam, President Obama?
Sen. Inhofe calls for a Sudanese woman sentenced to death to receive asylum. by Peter Roff No one knows how much attention the Obama administration is paying to the plight…
When the Left Turned Against Free Speech
The long, ugly journey from the Free Speech Movement to professors assaulting protesters. by Matt Welch On March 4, in a designated “free-speech zone” at the University of California, Santa…
With greater risks, weaker capability is a bad strategy
by George Landrith Russian President Vladimir Putin is willing to invade neighboring nations to rebuild the former Soviet-era empire. Iran is on the cusp of developing nuclear weapons. North Korea…
ASP’s Nuclear Fairy Tales and Misconceptions
by Peter Huessy Despite the fact that our Triad of forces has been a nuclear umbrella that has kept the nuclear powers from going to war against each other for…
Speaking Loudly and Carrying a Small Stick
by Amir Taheri Until last week, some had hoped that, having failed to develop a credible foreign policy, President Obama may at least be capable of engaging in serious debate…
Ad Hoc Foreign Policy
Obama’s West Point speech and his policy of retreat are characterized by smallness. by Charles Krauthammer It is fitting that the day before President Obama gives his grand West Point address…
Speaking Freely at the University of Minnesota
by Carl M. Cannon I still think of myself as a reporter—my role for three decades—although as Washington bureau chief for RealClearPolitics, the bulk of my job these days is…
Save Meriam Ibrahim
Obama and the rest of the world need to come to the aid of a Sudanese woman sentenced to death. by Peter Roff It only took about a month, but…
State Dept Promotes Muslim Cleric Who Backed Fatwa on ‘Killing of U.S. Soldiers’
by Adam Kredo The State Department’s Counter Terrorism (CT) Bureau promoted on Friday a controversial Muslim scholar whose organization has reportedly backed Hamas and endorsed a fatwa authorizing the murder…
White House Exposed a Chief CIA Operative in Afghanistan
Editor’s Note: In 2003, the mainstream media and Democrats in Congress went epileptic when a Washington, DC-based CIA employee was publicly disclosed by someone in the Administration. They demanded a…