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CHINA’S ECONOMIC SWORD

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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AUDIO – GOVERNOR RICK PERRY INTERVIEWED BY LAURA INGRAHAM

Laura Ingraham interviews Rick Perry – Audio Radio Interview http://www.lauraingraham.com/b/AUDIO:-Gov.-Rick-Perry-gives-first-national-radio-interview-as-presidential-candidate/241509387705714730.html

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THE GROWING THREAT FROM CHINA’S AIR FORCE

AUGUST 24, 2011 Two advanced Su-27 fighters recently chased an American reconnaissance plane over the Taiwan Strait. By MICHAEL AUSLIN China watchers have been fixated on the maiden voyage of Beijing’s first aircraft carrier this month. However, U.S. and Asian defense planners should take care not to ignore another aspect of China’s growing military might.

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THE PERILS OF CUTTING OUR DEFENSES

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Defining Defense Down Gary Schmitt & Tom Donnelly August 15 – August 22, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 45 In a classic case of closing the barn door after the horses have bolted, the newly appointed secretary of defense, Leon Panetta, and retiring Joint Chiefs chairman Admiral Mike Mullen held

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AMERICA’S LOST ALLY – THE EVER SHRINKING EUROPEAN MILITARY

WASHINGTON POST By George F. Will, Published: August 17 LONDON During the Second World War, a future prime minister, Harold Macmillan, said America is “the new Roman empire and we Britons, like the Greeks of old, must teach them how to make it go.” How goes the tutoring of Rome by Athens? We are in the

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IF WE LET THE GOVERNMENT TAKE OUR GUNS, WE’LL HAVE TO RUN AND HIDE LIKE LONDONERS

– Big Government – http://biggovernment.com – If We Let the Government Take Our Guns, We’ll Have to Run and Hide Like Londoners Posted By AWR Hawkins On August 10, 2011 @ 12:29 pm When England banned the private ownership of handguns within its borders, I remember the National Rifle Association (NRA) airing videos of steamrollers

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THE AFGHAN MISSION AND THE SEAL TRAGEDY

AUGUST 9, 2011 The best way to honor our special forces is not to make them win wars on their own. By MAX BOOT I recently visited a Special Operations headquarters in the Middle East—the location, along with other details, must remain classified. I received an incredibly impressive briefing on how U.S. commandos generate intelligence,

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OBAMA AND THE DEFENSE OF TAIWAN

AUGUST 5, 2011 The U.S. seems ready to send a signal of weakness in Asia. The Obama Administration promised under Senate pressure last month to make a decision on the sale of 66 new F-16 fighters to Taiwan by October 1, which will finally give an issue that has languished in bureaucratic limbo the attention

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MASSIVE GLOBAL CYBERATTACK DISCOVERED

Military Tech U.S. Cybercops Caught Flat-Footed by Massive Global Cyberattack By Jeremy A. Kaplan Published August 04, 2011 | FoxNews.com REUTERS/Rick Wilking Josh Mayeux, network defender, works at the Air Force Space Command Network Operations & Security Center at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado July 20, 2010. Top U.S. cybercops were surprised

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