Ahead of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s trip to the White House on June 19, the Bush administration is pressuring Israel to endanger itself on at least two fronts. First, the Americans are pressuring the Olmert government to agree to Palestinian Authority and Fatah chief Mahmoud Abbas’s request to bring millions of bullets, thousands of …
By Colin Crowley Recently, the United States military announced a new addition to its cyber library: www.eucom.mil/africom, the web address of the developing military command for Africa, dubbed AFRICOM. Among its other attributes, the website provides answers to 19 questions about the planned U.S. presence in Africa that are frequently asked by a curious public, each answer intended …
The following is the official statement submitted by Nancy Menges, director of the Menges Hemispheric Security Project, to the House Foreign Relations Committee’s Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere. The statment was submitted on April 24, 2007. Colombia, a country which was starting to look like a failed state during the late 1990s, is generally moving …
The United States relies on an immense, multi-faceted industrial base to meet its defense technology and equipment needs. One of the most important but least understood parts of this phenomenon is America’s growing reliance upon foreign suppliers to provide military hardware. Such dependence has the inherent potential to become a grave Achilles’ heel for the …
Most thoughtful observers of the contemporary American polity are astonished that the highly partisan fight over the future of Iraq has almost entirely obscured the larger problem of which the Iraqi theater is but one front: the truly global conflict against Islamofascist ideologues and their enablers that is best described as the War for the …
By Donna Miles As the United States works to reduce its nuclear weapons stockpile, it must ensure it has enough safe, reliable weapons — both nuclear and conventional — to deter against the threats it faces, the commander of U.S. Strategic Command told the House Armed Services Committee today. Marine Gen. James E. Cartwright joined …
by J. Michael Waller Globalization has compelled the Pentagon to rely on foreign manufacturers for key elements of the nation’s defense needs. While that is not necessarily a bad thing, it becomes a problem when the U.S. finds that the governments of France and Russia own big chunks of the company that does the supplying …
China’s pollution problems cost it billions every year, but doubts remain about whether the leadership can muster the will to anything about it. By Fred Stakelbeck During a briefing on climate change in Beijing last month, Jiang Yu, spokesperson for China’s Foreign Ministry, said that wealthier countries must take the lead in curbing greenhouse gas emissions, since …
The casual observer might think nothing of the candidacy of a fellow named Suhail Khan for election to one of two open seats on the Board of Directors of the American Conservative Union – the political Right’s largest and most influential grassroots umbrella organization. Certainly, for most Americans, the man’s faith would be of …