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DON’T SLAY THE U-2 ‘DRAGON LADY’

  THE WALL STREET JOURNAL DON’T SLAY THE U-2 ‘DRAGON LADY’ By Michael Auslin  Mr. Auslin is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., and a columnist for WSJ.com    April 29, 2014 Congress this week may kill one of America’s most iconic, and still vital, airplanes. First introduced in the […]

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MEDIA TURNING ON OBAMA

  The media is turning on President Obama By Michael Goodwin    NY Post April 27, 2014 With multiple crises spiraling out of control around the world, stories about the Obama presidency are taking on the air of postmortems. What went wrong, who’s to blame, what next — even The New York Times is starting to recognize

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PUTIN INVADES, OBAMA DISMANTLES

  THE WALL STREET JOURNAL  PUTIN INVADES, OBAMA DISMANTLES April 9, 2014 John Kerry told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday that “Russian provocateurs” had infiltrated eastern Ukraine in order to foment “an illegal and illegitimate effort to destabilize a sovereign state and create a contrived crisis.” Also on Tuesday, the Pentagon announced steep

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OBAMA TO KILL TOMAHAWK, HELLFIRE MISSILE PROGRAMS

  THREAT JOURNAL Obama to Kill Tomahawk, Hellfire Missile Programs Cornerstone of U.S. Naval power eliminated under Obama budget BY: Adam Kredo Follow @Kredo0 March 25, 2014    President Barack Obama is seeking to abolish two highly successful missile programs that experts say have helped the U.S. Navy maintain military superiority for the past several

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THE PRESIDENT’S FOREIGN POLICY PARADOX

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL THE PRESIDENT’S FOREIGN POLICY PARADOX By Walter Russell Mead Mr. Mead is a professor of foreign affairs and humanities at Bard College and editor at large of the American Interest. March 29, 2014 More than five years into his presidency, Barack Obama still wrestles with the foreign-policy contradiction that has dogged

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NATO’S MILITARY DECLINE

  THE WALL STREET JOURNAL  NATO’S MILITARY DECLINE  March 25, 2014  Vladimir Putin and his American apologists like to blame NATO’s post-Cold War expansion for his territorial conquests, which ignores that the alliance refused in 2008 to let Georgia and Ukraine even begin the process of joining. Those are the two countries the Russian has

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AMERICA’S INCREDIBLE SHRINKING NAVY

  THE WALL STREET JOURNAL AMERICA’S INCREDIBLE SHRINKING NAVY By Steve Cohen  Mr. Cohen, an attorney at KDLM in New York, is a former director of the U.S. Naval Institute March 21, 2014 Americans may be war-weary after Iraq and Afghanistan. But the world is still a hostile place, and the U.S.Navy is stretched too

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KRAUTHAMMER – HOW TO STOP OR SLOW PUTIN

  THE WASHINGTON POST How to stop — or slow — Putin By Charles Krauthammer, March 14, 2014 The president of the Los Angeles World Affairs Council challenges critics of President Obama’s Ukraine policy by saying, “What are you going to do, send the 101st Airborne into Crimea?” Not exactly subtle. And rather silly, considering

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CUTTING THE NATIONAL GUARD

  THE WASHINGTON TIMES CUTTING THE NATIONAL GUARD IS PENNY-WISE AND POUND-FOOLISH By Rick Perry Friday, February 28, 2014 EXCERPT FROM THE ARTICLE:  The National Guard has proved over and over again that it is the most cost-efficient way to maintain a force of experienced, capable fighting men and women. The Guard can be maintained

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