DECEMBER 21, 2010 New Start’s Old Illusions The arms treaty is irrelevant to today’s nuclear proliferation. The Obama Presidency wouldn’t have been complete without an arms-control treaty. Since at least the Kellogg-Briand pact in the 1920s, which outlawed war, it has been an article of faith in some circles that reasonable men everywhere could be […]
My diplomatic wingman The late Richard Holbrooke (left) and Gen. David H. Petraeus (right), shown here with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in April, collaborated closely on U.S. efforts in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Holbrooke passed away Monday in Washington. (Shah Marai) By David H. Petraeus Washington Post December 19, 2010 Those of us engaged in the
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Deadly Gossip The culture of leaking grows to ominous proportions. Lee Smith December 13, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 13 Many here in the United States have been quick to dismiss the significance of the State Department cables released by WikiLeaks as little more than foreign policy gossip. Unfortunately, this
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Stuxnet versus the Iranian nuclear program. Jonathan V. Last December 13, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 13 Last week Mahmoud Ahmadinejad acknowledged that Iran’s uranium enrichment program had suffered a setback: “They were able to disable on a limited basis some of our centrifuges by software installed in electronic equipment,”
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MONROE: Hesitation over New START Trouble with Russia’s tactical nukes By Vice Adm. Robert R. Monroe – The Washington Times November 23, 2010 The Senate has just reconvened for its “lame-duck” November and December session. President Obama is urging this body to hold a ratification vote on the New START nuclear weapons treaty with Russia
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Speaking Truth to Mullah Power At a conclave of big shots, Lindsey Graham steals the show. Tod Lindberg November 22, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 10 Halifax, Nova Scotia On a dangerously windy early November afternoon, a military plane carrying a delegation of six U.S. senators made four successive approaches
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DECEMBER 6, 2010 We should think of cyberattacks as guided missiles and respond similarly—intercept them and retaliate. By MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Not many people realize that all of our nation’s air, land and sea forces rely on network technologies that are vulnerable to cyberweapons, including logistics, command and control, fleet positioning and
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Holder’s Sham Trial Thomas Joscelyn November 29, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 11 “By prosecuting Ahmed Ghailani in federal court,” Attorney General Eric Holder said in a May 21, 2009, statement, “we will ensure that he finally answers for his alleged role in the bombing of our embassies in Tanzania
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