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Iran Shoots Down U.S. Drone Amid Evidence of Growing Western Covert Programs
Iranian armed forces claim they shot down an unmanned U.S. drone spy plane over its eastern border region.
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Good-Bye Counter-Insurgency; Hello Air-Sea Battle
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."
The Targeted Killing of Al-Awlaki
By David Husband – Recently, there has been a tremendous uproar over the targeted killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, a suspected al-Qaeda affiliate in Yemen. Glen Greenwald, criticizing the Obama administration, claims, “The Executive Branch decided it has the authority to target U.S. citizens for death without due process, but told nobody (until it was leaked) and refuses to identify the [...]
A Revamped U.S. Export Control System for the 21st Century
By Manik Suri – While the United States has built one of the most sophisticated export control regimes in the world, the regime’s Cold War era architecture is outdated and must be transformed to reflect today’s realities and meet tomorrow’s challenges. In August 2009, President Obama directed the National Security Council and National Economic Council to coordinate an interagency review [...]
A “Historical Gloss on the Vesting Power?”
Can the President, based upon no textually committed constitutional power but only upon inherent or implied power, disregard an act of Congress because that law concerns the conduct of U.S. foreign relations? On November 7, before the United States Supreme Court, in Zivotofsky v. Clinton, the Obama Administration appeared to give an answer: yes. (For a good summary see the [...]
War in Afghanistan – Where Do we Go from Here?
As we in the United States “celebrate” the tenth anniversary of the war in Afghanistan with a cost of several billion dollars a month for the military alone, I have become increasingly curious as to if and when the United States Government will finally decide that we must intelligently assess our role in this part of the world and move [...]
The Dangers of a Premature Palestinian State
By Lee Hiromoto – Contrary to the pessimism of some, the Arab-Israeli peace process has come quite far since Israel won its independence in 1948. In 1967, the Arab League declared in the Khartoum Resolution that there would be “no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, [and] no negotiations with it.” The Palestinian National Charter of 1968 set out [...]
America’s Caesar
“Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shared a laugh with a television news reporter moments after hearing deposed Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi had been killed. ” ‘We came, we saw, he died,’ she joked when told of news reports of Qaddafi’s death by an aide in between formal interviews.” ―CBS News, October 20, 2011 “One of the most pathetic aspects of [...]
Reykjavik: Turning Point of the Cold War
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.”
Political Grandstanding Imperils American Influence over the Question of Palestinian Statehood
By Evan Meyerson – On Friday, September 23, 2011, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas formally submitted a bid for full membership in the United Nations. By attempting to authorize Palestinian statehood through the U.N. rather than at the negotiating table, Abbas signaled an unprecedented move away from direct involvement by the United States in the high-level decision-making of the Middle East [...]
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