Nile Gardiner Nile Gardiner is a Washington-based foreign affairs analyst and political commentator. He appears frequently on American and British television and radio, including Fox News Channel, CNN, BBC, Sky News, and NPR. The greatest president of the 20th Century: the free world owes Ronald Reagan a huge debt of gratitude By Nile Gardiner World
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) A Farewell to Arms Max Boot January 17, 2011 In 1991, at the end of the Cold War, there were 710,821 active-duty soldiers in the U.S. Army. By 2001, that figure was down to 478,918. That 32 percent decline in active-duty strength severely limited our options for a military
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FEBRUARY 6, 2011, 5:31 P.M. ET Notable & Quotable British Prime Minister David Cameron speaking at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday. British Prime Minister David Cameron speaking at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday. [T]he biggest threat that we face comes from terrorist attacks, some of which are, sadly, carried out by our own
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FEBRUARY 4, 2011 On his 100th birthday, it’s worth recalling the character and leadership essential to presidential success. By ROBERT MCFARLANEMr. McFarlane served as President Reagan’s national security adviser (1983-85), as President Ford’s special assistant for national security affairs (1976-77), and as military assistant to Henry Kissinger and Brent Scowcroft in the Nixon administration. He
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AMERICAN THINKER February 05, 2011 By Victor Sharpe Not content with creating havoc in the U.S. economy, setting Americans against each other, and forcing through a health reform act which has nothing to do with health but everything to do with the redistribution of wealth and an immense increase in governmental interference, our president has
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The benefits of U.S. defense spending far outweigh the costs Robert Kagan January 24, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 18 The looming battle over the defense budget could produce a useful national discussion about American foreign and defense policy. But we would need to begin by dispensing with the most
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Peace Despite Weakness? Center for Security Policy | Jan 11, 2011 By Frank Gaffney, Jr. Two recent episodes offer an insight into a world in which the United States deliberately adopts a policy of pursuing international peace despite weakness, rather than practice what Ronald Reagan called “peace through strength.” First, prior to and during Secretary of
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JANUARY 19, 2011 Let’s scrap the Departments of Commerce and Housing and Urban Development, end farm subsidies, and end urban mass transit grants, for starters. By DICK ARMEY AND MATT KIBBE The primary economic challenge today is that our government spends too much money it doesn’t have, and it is involved in too many things
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JANUARY 18, 2011 A neat computer trick won’t stop Iran from getting the bomb. By BRET STEPHENS Long before there was the Stuxnet computer worm there was the “Farewell” spy dossier. In 1980, a KGB officer named Vladimir Vetrov began passing secrets to French intelligence. Vetrov was in a position to know the names of
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