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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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL THE NATIONAL SECURITY GENERATION GAP By Stephen Peter Rosen Mr. Rosen is a professor of national security and military affairs at Harvard. Young Americans have become skeptical about the use of U.S. power abroad. March 31, 2014 With Russia’s invasion of Crimea, Syria’s civil war growing into a regional
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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 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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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
