National Defense

TIME TO KILL THE LAW OF THE SEA TREATY–AGAIN

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011 If the Senate ratifies it, China will have its best weapon yet to limit U.S. action in Asia. By JOHN BOLTON And DAN BLUMENTHAL The Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST)—signed by the U.S. in 1994 but never ratified by the Senate—is showing some signs of life on Capitol Hill, even as

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IS PAKISTAN TOO BIG TO FAIL?

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011 The country’s generals behave with impunity because they believe the United States will always blink first. By SADANAND DHUME Can Pakistan be weaned off its addiction to exporting violence? Unusually blunt comments to the Senate last week by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen have spurred the latest

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THE GREATEST THREAT TO AMERICA – AN EMP STRIKE

September 27, 2011 EMP: The Greatest Threat to America, and What We Can Do about It By JanSuzanne Krasner It’s bewildering.  Pathetic.  Frightening.  And it seems that the mainstream media avoids talking about it for fear that Americans will panic.  Well, Americans ought to be panicking — anything to get them to bang on Congress’s

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THE UNDISCERNING AND DANGEROUS APPRECIATION OF RON PAUL

The Bahnsen Viewpoint Politics, Economics, and Culture Through My Eyes The Undiscerning and Dangerous Appreciation of Ron Paul By DLB David Bahnsen    May 21, 2011 http://www.davidbahnsen.com/index.php/2011/05/21/the-undiscerning-and-dangerous-appreciation-of-ron-paul/ And the credentials of the author http://www.davidbahnsen.com/index.php/about Let me start this article by saying this: I confess from the start that this is a very, very passionate issue for

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MIKE ROGERS: ‘A STRONG AMERICA IS A SOURCE OF PRIDE AND A FORCE FOR GOOD IN THE WORLD’

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Daniel Halper September 16, 2011 Congressman Mike Rogers delivered this coherent, Reaganesque defense of defense this morning at the American Enterprise Institute: The Evolution of American Intelligence and National Security in the Decade since 9/11 A Keynote Address by Representative Mike Rogers (R-MI) Thank you all very much; thank

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THE U.S. MILITARY IS AGING, AND FAST

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011 ‘Geriatric’ U.S. Arsenal Needs Expensive Face-Lift By NATHAN HODGE When Lt. David A. Deptula II, an Air Force pilot, climbed into his fighter plane at Kadena Air Force Base in Japan in 2008, it wasn’t the first time a pilot named David Deptula had been at the controls. Lt. Deptula’s father flew

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KRAUTHAMMER: AMERICA’S CURRENT DEMORALIZATION IS NOT A RESULT OF THE WAR ON TERROR

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com Charles Krauthammer September 9, 2011 12:00 A.M. The 9/11 ‘Overreaction’? Nonsense America’s current demoralization is not a result of the War on Terror. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: The total costs of “the two wars” is $1.3 trillion. That’s less than one eleventh of the national debt, less than one year of

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