Sunni Salvation
American field commanders have made considerable progress in winning the respect of Sunni tribal leaders and turning them against al Qaeda in Iraq. But a key part of this improved ...
Realities & Necessities
On March 2, while the President Bush was visiting New Delhi, he and Prime Minister Singh signed an agreement on civilian nuclear cooperation. The agreement requires congressional action to implement, ...
Making China Pay
The looming crisis over Iran’s nuclear weapons program is turning attention to China’s role as the protector of the two remaining “axis of evil” regimes. On January 9, the day ...
Rumsfeld in China
On October 18, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld landed in Beijing for a three-day visit, his first trip to China for the Bush administration. Beijing’s Communist leaders had long been ...
Not a Guerrilla War–Yet
The November 12 truck bombing at the Italian military police headquarters in Nasiriyah, Iraq, has not changed the strategic situation in that country any more than the downing of two ...
Slow Boat to China
Commerce Under Secretary for International Trade Grant Aldonas has stirred controversy ...
Another Kind of War
In response to the manufacturing recession that has slowed the U.S. economy, and cost the country 2.5 million factory jobs ...
Homeland Defense
Members of the House and Senate Armed Services committees have gone into conference to hash out some major differences in the ...
Losing The Peace
On Sunday’s Washington Post, Sens. Joseph Biden, ranking Democrat on the Senate ...
Vietnam Syndrome
As war looms ever closer in Iraq, more references are being made by critics that this new conflict risks “another Vietnam.” The first Gulf War of 1991 was widely hailed ...