Category: National Security
Channeling Ike | Wages of War | Camp Followers | The Real Strategic Threat
by WS Editors | Jul 15, 2010 | Economy, National SecurityChanneling Ike—Robert Gates’s May 8 address at the Eisenhower Library in Abilene, Kansas, got passing attention from the media when he delivered it. Two months later, the speech has taken on a life of its own, in particular at the Pentagon, where it is read as a warning about out-of-control budgets, a dysfunctional appropriations process, […]
The Afghan Dilemma | Blaming Obama/Intelligence as an Option | Five Years and Five Billion
by WS Editors | Nov 15, 2009 | Foreign Policy, National SecurityThe Afghan Dilemma—House Armed Services Committee Chair Ike Skelton (D-MO) describes President Barack Obama’s Afghanistan strategy as “not new” but the “first strategy” in a war that has been under-resourced and “forgotten” since the Bush administration initiated it in 2001. The Afghanistan assessment that General Stanley McChrystal presented to the president reportedly calls for an […]
Bob Gates vs. Lockheed Martin
by WS Editors | Apr 15, 2009 | Economy, National SecurityIT’S NO SECRET that Defense Secretary Robert Gates wants to close out production of the F-22. Gates has been a critic of the bells-and-whistles guys in the Pentagon, has argued against Cold War weapons systems, and in June fired the fighter jet’s most outspoken advocates—Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne and Chief of Staff T. Michael […]
Economic Treason | Intelligence Failure? | Liars’ Club
by WS Editors | Jan 1, 2009 | Economy, National SecurityEconomic Treason—Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky represents a state that is home to Toyota’s biggest plant outside of Japan. Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama represents a state that is home to Mercedes-Benz, Honda, Hyundai, and Toyota. Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee represents a state that is home to Nissan’s North American headquarters and a new […]
A Missile Defense Boondoggle Fueled by Money
by WS Editors | May 15, 2008 | Foreign Policy, National SecurityONE OF THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS for which George W. Bush does not get enough credit is his role in restarting the Cold War. Using an Iranian intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) program as a pretext, the Bush-Cheney White House is putting in place an anti-ballistic-missile system that targets Iranian ICBMs but is ideally positioned to take out […]
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