NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com Victor Davis Hanson September 22, 2011 12:00 A.M. The country has never been in more danger. Will Israel survive? That question hasn’t really been asked since 1967. Then, a far weaker Israel was surrounded on all sides by Arab dictatorships that were equipped with sophisticated weapons from their nuclear patron, the
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August 27, 2011 By Jed Babbin Jed Babbin served as a deputy undersecretary of defense under George H.W. Bush. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:It is in these areas – cyberwar and anti-satellite weapons, among others — that American economic weakness may be having the greatest effect. As one source told me, the Pentagon is enormously concerned
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JULY 5, 2011 America needs the Jewish state’s technology and innovation as much as it needs us. By GEORGE GILDER America’s enemies understand deeply and intuitively that no U.S. goals or resources in the Middle East are remotely as important as Israel. Why don’t we? Israel cruised through the recent global slump with scarcely a
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July 1, 2011 by Donald Rumsfeld EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Our country has taken an ax to our national security budget—both the Defense Department and the intelligence community—after every war of the 20th century. And every time we later regretted it. Defense spending is now 19% of federal outlays and declining. This is the lowest
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MAY 28, 2011 The Gates Farewell Warning America can be a superpower or a welfare state, but not both. Robert Gates, who steps down next month after four-plus years at the Pentagon, is making his retirement lap a tutorial on America’s defense spending and security needs. His message is welcome, especially on Memorial Day, and
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