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BOOK REVIEW – RED ARMY: THE RADICAL NETWORK THAT MUST BE DEFEATED TO SAVE AMERICA

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Red Army’ By Wes Vernon – Special to The Washington Times Monday, November 21, 2011 RED ARMY: THE RADICAL NETWORK THAT MUST BE DEFEATED TO SAVE AMERICA By Aaron Klein and Brenda J. Elliott Broadside Books, $26.99, 351 pages America is under attack. Not by a uniformed army with rifles and tanks. But

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HEAD OF U.S. STRATEGIC COMMAND SAYS WEAPONS AND INFRASTRUCTURE ARE NOW “AGED”

General: Prioritize nuclear upgrades in budget By Bill Gertz– The Washington Times Tuesday, November 22, 2011 Air Force General C. Robert Kehler, head of U.S. Strategic Command EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:  Gen. Kehler said U.S. nuclear weapons and infrastructure are now “aged.”  “We have reached one of those critical points where investment is required to

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OBAMA CUTS THE MILITARY INSTEAD OF ENTITLEMENTS

JANUARY 6, 2012 Obama’s Defense Drawdown Entitlements begin to crowd out the American military. A QUOTE FROM PRESIDENT EISENHOWER – ” WEAKNESS IN ARMS, OFTEN INVITES AGGRESSION.” President Obama yesterday put in a rare appearance at the Pentagon, flanked by the four service chiefs and his Secretary of Defense. Saying that now is the time

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OUR NATIONAL DEFENSE: LESSONS NEVER LEARNED

Today’s defense cuts are recreating conditions that led to Pearl Harbor By Adm. 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 The Washington Times Tuesday, December 6, 2011 associated press The battleship USS Arizona belches smoke as

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KRAUTHAMMER – OBAMA’S APPEASEMENT WITH RUSSIA AND IRAN

The wages of appeasement By Charles Krauthammer, Published: December 15 “Ask Osama bin Laden . . . whether I engage in appeasement.” — Barack Obama, Dec. 8 Fair enough. Barack Obama didn’t appease Osama bin Laden. He killed him. And for ordering the raid and taking the risk, Obama deserves credit. Credit for decisiveness and political courage. However,

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WHAT OBAMA LEFT BEHIND IN IRAQ

DECEMBER 17, 2011 There’s no need to fear the deference of Iraq’s Shiites toward Iran. By FOUAD AJAMI ‘The tide of war is receding, and the soul of Baghdad remains, the soul of Iraq remains,” Vice President Joe Biden said at Camp Victory, by the Baghdad airport, earlier this month, in the countdown to the

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AN EMP (ELECTRO MAGNETIC PULSE) STRIKE AND GINGRICH

DECEMBER 19, 2011 Gingrich’s Worthy Brain Pulse An electromagnetic pulse attack is not a fanciful notion. Newt Gingrich’s rise in the polls has brought attention to his various “big ideas,” and plenty of derision from other GOP Presidential hopefuls and the media. Among the most undeserved targets is the former Speaker’s concern about an electromagnetic

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OBAMA AND THE HEZBOLLAH TERRORIST

DECEMBER 7, 2011 In Jan. 2007, Ali Musa Daqduq helped kill five Americans in Iraq. He may soon be released into Iranian custody. By DAVID B. RIVKIN, JR. And CHARLES D. STIMSON Mr. Rivkin served in the Justice Department during the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations. Mr. Stimson, senior legal fellow at the Heritage

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DEFEAT IN IRAQ – THE MOTHER OF ALL DISASTERS

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Defeat in Iraq President Obama’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops is the mother of all disasters Frederick W. Kagan, Kimberly Kagan and Marisa Cochrane Sullivan November 7, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 08 Iraq is not Vietnam. There are certainly analogies: the length and unpopularity of the wars; the late

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