Afghanistan and the Future of the “Good War”
Should the U.S. & NATO accelerate the withdrawal from Afghanistan or “stay the course?”
Should the U.S. & NATO accelerate the withdrawal from Afghanistan or “stay the course?”
From Obama the peacemaker and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize to fearsome warrior ruthlessly killing terrorists
Those who served our country should be full participants in the imperative to reign in the nation’s growing debt and annual deficits. They should not be singled out nor left to bear this burden alone.
This is the next war, folks, and it could be over in a matter of seconds, with no blood spilled or troops even mobilized. Beijing knows that—do we?
Speculation is rife that, with or without United States support, Israel will attack Iranian nuclear facilities, possibly soon.
President Obama went to the Pentagon to announce the Defense Department’s new “Strategic Guidance,” the document that will serve as the template for weapons acquisition, force sizing, military strategy, budgeting, and geographic focus for the future.
Ty Cobb analyzes recent events affecting our national security.
Iranian armed forces claim they shot down an unmanned U.S. drone spy plane over its eastern border region.
The U.S. is running as fast as it can from the defining strategy and focus of the last decade—fighting counter-insurgencies and engaging in nation-building. The new leitmotif the Defense Department is embracing is the “Air-Sea Battle.”
Twenty-five years ago this month President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev met in Reykjavik, Iceland, at a summit that appears, in retrospect, to truly be the “turning point in the Cold War.”