The Seoul G-20 Summit: How QE2 Poisoned the Well
When President Obama left the country last November to attend the G-20 Summit in Seoul, the international community was anxiously anticipating a groundbreaking global strategy to address the current...
View ArticleIs America at War with Islam?
At a Ground Zero ceremony to honor the ninth anniversary of September 11th, President Obama took a detour from the traditionally commemorative rituals of prayer and mourning to address a threat to our...
View ArticleDivided Government: Impacts on US foreign policy
Republican leaders have consistently criticized President Obama’s efforts to move away from what he describes as the “misguided policies and impetuous actions” that characterized the Bush...
View ArticleAmerica’s Vanishing Military: How Acquisition Failures Threaten U.S. Military...
In the midst of debates about America’s decline, one fact is unchallenged: the United States possesses the most powerful military on the planet. Unfortunately, the United States’ increasingly inability...
View ArticleThe Necessary Role of Guantanamo Bay
Two days after his much-heralded inauguration, President Barack Obama issued three executive orders that effectively ended military commission trials at the Guantánamo Bay detention facility. Claiming...
View ArticleIn Defense of the U.S. Response to Intervention in Libya
On the first day of the military attacks on Libya, U.S. President Barack Obama took great pains to emphasize that the intervention in Libya would not be a U.S. operation. Instead, he outlined the...
View ArticleThe Art of War: The National Defense Authorization Act
On New Year’s Eve, President Obama signed into law the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, which contains budgetary and executive provisions for what the administration calls, “the defense of the...
View ArticleA Craggy Road to Peace: The Case for Invading North Korea
It seems counterintuitive and nearly Orwellian to consider waging war as a means of peace, yet history has shown countless examples in which the two were hardly distinguishable. The Mahabarata first...
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