(Washington, D.C.): The United States Senate is expected shortly to be asked to adopt a Sense of the Senate resolution offered by Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) that urges prompt action on the Clinton Comprehensive Test Ban (CTB) Treaty. The proposed Specter amendment to the FY99 Defense authorization bill exemplifies the lemming phenomenon that has come …
(Washington, D.C.): At a symposium sponsored in New York City yesterday by the William J. Casey Institute of the Center for Security Policy, Steve Forbes delivered a clarion call: “We live in a time of relative peace and rising prosperity. But let us be clear: This did not happen by magic. What has been done, …
(Washington, D.C.): Even as the Clinton Administration once again shows itself unable or unwilling to address the threat posed by Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction in the only way certain to be effective — namely, by removing him and his clique from power — Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS) has once …
By Bradley Graham Washington Post, 05 February 1998 After naval engagements dating back to the Cuban missile crisis, the aging aircraft carrier USS Independence was expected to spend this spring on a valedictory lap around the Asian Pacific before its scheduled decommissioning in September. Instead, this oldest of Navy warships is due to arrive in …
In an extraordinarily thoughtful cover article in this week’s edition of the New Republic, Bill Clinton and Al Gore’s favorite magazine has eviscerated the theory that passes for a security policy in the Clinton-Gore Administration: the notion that "globalization" is making the world safe for American interests in the absence of a credible U.S. capability …
(Washington, D.C.): Few initiatives have enjoyed higher priority for the Clinton-Gore Administration than the Vice Presidentially-sponsored effort to integrate the Russian and U.S. space programs. And, arguably, none better illuminates the faulty premises and ominous repercussions of the Administration’s stewardship of relations between the two countries. To understand the implications of President Clinton’s legacy in …
(Washington, D.C.): The House of Representatives is expected shortly to consider an amendment offered by Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD) that is intended to bring a measure of integrity, accountability and realism to the United States’ financial relationship to the United Nations. The debate on the Bartlett legislation, entitled the “United Nations Erroneous Debt Act of …
(Washington, D.C.): In an unprecedented display of the Pentagon’s verbal firepower, the United States’ entire senior military leadership went on record last week in opposition to draft legislation which would “permanently restrict the use of funds for new deployment of anti-personnel landmines (APL) commencing 1 January 2000.” Signed by every member of the Joint Chiefs …
(Washington, D.C.): Against the backdrop of an imminent congressional debate over President Clinton’s proposal to renew China’s Most Favored Nation (MFN) status for another year and increasing concern about U.S. national and economic security interests in East Asia (notably, the 1 July Chinese takeover of Hong Kong), the William J. Casey Institute of the Center …
(Washington, D.C.): The media feeding frenzy over the case of First Lieutenant Kelly Flinn and the predictable response from several congressional quarters — notably, female Members of Congress and liberal Democratic Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) who have assailed the Air Force for its insensitive handling of an “affair of the heart” — have put into …