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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REDSTATE.COM Cold War Revisionism and the Defense of Obama’s Ukraine Blunder By: streiff (Diary) | March 14th, 2014 There is an op-ed in the Washington Post by Mark Kramer, director of the Project on Cold War Studies at Harvard University, making the rounds today titled Five myths about the Cold War. Like so many
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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL REVIEW & OUTLOOK UKRAINE AND NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION March 19, 2014 The damage to world order from Vladimir Putin‘s invasion of Crimea will echo for years, but one of the biggest casualties deserves more attention: the cause of nuclear nonproliferation. One lesson to the world of Russia’s cost-free carve-up of Ukraine
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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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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL DANCING IN THE NUCLEAR DARK Feb 4, 2014 Bret Stephens Where do federal government reports go once they’ve been published and (lightly) chewed over by second-tier officials, congressional staffers and think-tank wonks? I picture them being packed into crates and stored in some vast warehouse, like the Ark of the
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) A Raid on Iran? Don’t count out the Israeli military. It has a record of pulling off daring, surprise strikes. Uri Sadot Uri Sadot is a research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations and holds a master’s degree in international affairs from Princeton University. December
September 11, 2013 A Plea for Caution From Russia By VLADIMIR V. PUTIN MOSCOW — RECENT events surrounding Syria have prompted me to speak directly to the American people and their political leaders. It is important to do so at a time of insufficient communication between our societies. Relations between us have passed through
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August 23, 2013 Why the U.S. Still Needs Nuclear Weapons Superiority I saw firsthand what happened when the Allies thought the Soviets had the strategic advantage. WILLIAM LLOYD STEARMANDr. Stearman, the author of “An American Adventure” (Naval Institute Press, 2012), served on the National Security Council staff from 1971-1976 and 1981-1993. In a speech
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THE WASHINGTON TIMES LYONS: ‘Transforming’ America becomes disarming America Chipping away at the military jeopardizes security By James A. Lyons Retired Adm. James A. Lyons was commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet and senior U.S. military representative to the United Nations. Monday, July 29, 2013 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Strategically, our main
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August 4, 2013 Exploiting Obama’s Foreign Policy Retreat Why did Vladimir Putin thumb his nose at the U.S. in the Snowden affair? Because he could. By JOSEF JOFFEMr. Joffe teaches U.S. foreign policy at Stanford University, where he is also a fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Institute for International Studies. His book
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