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OBAMA’S WAY OF WAR

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Reuel Marc Gerecht May 14, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 33 Is Barack Obama a warrior president? Not in the British tradition, of course, which gave us Winston Churchill, with his crazy cavalry charge against Sudanese spears, or the more cerebral Harold Macmillan, shot to pieces in World War I, […]

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U.S. NAVY HAS TOO FEW SHIPS

The Seas Are Great but the Navy Is Small The Obama administration says it wants 300 ships, but it is reducing the number now while promising to build more far into the future, most after a second Obama term. By JOHN LEHMAN Mr. Lehman was secretary of the Navy in the Reagan administration and a

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OBAMA’S PLANS FOR U.S. NUCLEAR-WEAPONS REDUCTION

GAFFNEY: Leading no followers to ‘Global Zero’ Obama’s plans for U.S. nuclear-weapons reduction will be unilateral By Frank J. Gaffney Jr.– The Washington Times Monday, March 26, 2012 Illustration by John Camejo for The Washington Times In Seoul, South Korea, on Monday, President Obama enthused once again about his vision of a world without nuclear

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OBAMA’S CUTS TO THE MILITARY, BUT NO CUTS TO ENTITLEMENTS

OUR REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES SHOULD BE MAKING THE VOTERS VERY MUCH AWARE OF OBAMA’S    HUGE CUTS TO THE MILITARY WHILE NOT CUTTING ENTITLEMENT SPENDING. Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) A Path to Security Gary Schmitt and Thomas Donnelly April 2, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 28EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:  To be sure, these are only

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PAUL RYAN’S BUDGET PROTECTS DEFENSE

March 27, 2012, 6:37 p.m. ET Ryan’s Budget Protects Defense Within a plan to reduce outlays by $6.2 trillion over the next decade, Paul Ryan has found a way to replace $214 billion of the $487 billion in military spending cuts in Obama’s budget. By ARTHUR C. BROOKS, EDWIN J. FEULNER AND WILLIAM KRISTOL Mr.

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THE ‘DAYTON’ LESSON FOR AMERICA’S SHRINKING MILITARY

March 13, 2012 Three years into America’s post-World War II drawdown,not a single U.S. nuclear bomber could hit a large, undefended target in Ohio. By WARREN KOZAK EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:  But it turned out that many of the planes couldn’t even take off. The best mechanics had left the service for higher-paying and easier

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MITT ROMNEY – HOW I WOULD CHECK IRAN’S NUCLEAR AMBITION

WASHINGTON POST By Mitt Romney, Published: March 5 Beginning Nov. 4, 1979 , dozens of U.S. diplomats were held hostage by Iranian Islamic revolutionaries for 444 days while America’s feckless president, Jimmy Carter, fretted in the White House. Running for the presidency against Carter the next year, Ronald Reagan made it crystal clear that the Iranians

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