November 16, 2011

The Dems Target Defense and Your Wallet Again

With a debt ceiling deal mandate to find $1.5 trillion in savings over the next decade, what have the Democrats on the Super Committee proposed? The same old policies from the Democratic playbook: massive tax hikes and defense cuts. Leaked Democr...

November 5, 2011

America Needs a New Foreign Policy

America's foreign policy is clearly not working.  The world, and the U.S. itself, are not any safer than they were three years ago, the military is still mired in Afghanistan, Libya's Gaddafi dictatorship is likely to be replaced by a sharia-bas...

October 23, 2011

No Longer Ronald Reagan's Party

The Republican Party used to be the party standing for a strong defense.  This was true from at least the Goldwater times.  In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Ronald Reagan strengthened the GOP's commitment to a strong military and simultan...

October 8, 2011

Defense and the Principle of Limited Government

Some libertarians and liberals allege that the policy of building up and generously funding a strong military is inconsistent with the principle of limited government -- one of the key principles of conservative ideology.  Yet this allegation co...

September 23, 2011

Missile Defense Systems: Why and How

Currently, America's enemies, including China, North Korea, and Iran, are developing ballistic missiles of increasing range and accuracy and deploying them in growing quantities.  Some worry that Iran's leaders are not rational and may not be de...

September 10, 2011

Defense: Neglected, Ignored, And Marginalized

Domestic issues, such as the economy, health care, and taxes, have always dominated electoral campaigns and the American political discourse, and deservedly so.  However, nothing explains why defense has been ignored and marginalized as an issue...

August 20, 2011

Who Pays for the European Union?

The financial burden of running Europe is not divided evenly among European countries.  This fact makes the upcoming 2012 EU budget negotiations noteworthy even across the Atlantic. Next year, the EU will decide on the exact composition of its b...

August 2, 2011

China projected to face a serious demographic slump

Anti-Americans around the world and domestic doomsayers and naysayers in the US would love to see any country, even a totalitarian one, replace the US as the world's top dog. However, they're going to have to wait decades for that to happen. There's ...

July 31, 2011

The Folly of the U.K.'s Defense Cuts

As the Congress debates budgetary issues, some liberals are marketing British defense cuts as a model for America, claiming that if the U.K. can afford to reduce its defense budget, so can America. A close examination of these defense cuts, however, ...

July 23, 2011

Mitt Romney: A Liberal's Liberal Republican

The most prominent candidate for the GOP nomination is former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.  He's a prolific fundraiser and enjoys widespread name recognition, and he's the darling of the GOP establishment.  George Will lists him as o...

July 9, 2011

John Huntsman: Wasting Conservatives' Time

Nowadays, many people are running (or considering running) for president.  One of them is Obama's former ambassador to Communist China, former Governor Jon Huntsman of Utah. Huntsman is the GOP establishment's new beau idéal, now that their favo...

July 9, 2011

Obama Administration's missile defense proposal 'simply not credible'

In 2009, the Obama Administration scrapped President Bush's plans for missile defense in Europe in an unprecedented act of capitulation to Russia, thus alienating two allies (Poland and the Czech Republic) with whom Washington had signed missile defe...

June 29, 2011

Robert Gates' Disastrous Tenure at DoD

Robert Gates plans to step down as SECDEF tomorrow (June 30) -- and not a moment too soon.  This is a good opportunity to sum up his tenure as Pentagon chief. Gates was nominated for Secretary on November 8, 2006, after Donald Rumsfeld resigned....

June 12, 2011

The 'World without Nuclear Weapons' Fiction

Many politicians -- not just overt leftists, but also self-professed "right-wingers" and "centrists" like Robert Gates and John McCain -- say they want a "world without nuclear weapons."  This is a childish fantasy, and it's time for the U.S. to...

May 23, 2011

China's rise: A Response

A recent article by Andy Maheshwari published on AT about China's rise ("China and America: Rising Dragon, Bleeding Eagle") was way off the mark. Its author made numerous factual errors which beg correction.(see author's response here)First...

May 7, 2011

Why the Balanced Budget Amendment Must Be Stopped

Currently, Washington Republicans are mulling over two versions of a Balanced Budget Amendment.  One, sponsored by Sens. Orrin Hatch and John Cornyn, would limit government spending to 20% of GDP and require a balanced budget (i.e., without a de...

April 17, 2011

Why the 'Realists' Are Wrong

Currently, one of the more influential foreign policy schools is the so-called realist school.  America's post-1989 administrations have been heavily influenced by it, implementing its recommendations in relations with China, Russia, Vietnam, an...

March 26, 2011

End the War on Drugs Now

Despite federal and state expenditures of billions of dollars per year, severe punishments, and frequent unconstitutional raids on private homes, the War On Drugs is a failure.  Since this futile war began, the number of drug users in the US has...

March 20, 2011

Shutting America's Military Out of the Combat Theater

Often debated is whether the U.S. should attack Iran's nuclear program or defend South Korea and Taiwan from their aggressive neighbors.  What is seldom discussed, however, is whether the U.S. could do either in light of these adversaries' acqui...

March 19, 2011

The Case against Mitch Daniels

Currently, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels is being billed as a genuine conservative who can defeat Barack Obama, reform the federal government, and balance the budget.  Yet a close examination of the governor's record and statements reveals that...

February 26, 2011

America Is Not an Empire

A number of liberal and libertarian politicians and columnists, led by Ron Paul and Pat Buchanan, have been falsely claiming for years that America is (or possesses) an empire.  This propaganda is actually worrisome, because its spreaders are us...

February 23, 2011

Spare the Military Budget

Vasko Kohlmayer's article of February 23rd (The Party of Big Government) contains so many factual errors that this rebuttal is necessary.Kohlmayer has wrongly claimed that "The military is the largest ticket in the budget. If we are serious abou...

February 12, 2011

David Frum's Bad Advice for the GOP

Liberal Republicans, led by David Frum, continue to argue for a remolding of the GOP into a Democrat-lite party.  Several prominent conservatives, including Michael Reagan and Ann Coulter, have made many credible arguments against such a change ...

February 5, 2011

Executive Orders and Presidential Prerogatives

Some conservatives, including AT news editor Ed Lasky, are worried that despite the election of a Republican-dominated House and six new GOP senators, Obama will continue to advance his extremely liberal agenda -- but this time, by executive fiat rat...

January 30, 2011

Ike's Misinterpreted Farewell Address

Fifty years ago, on January 16, 1961, President Eisenhower delivered his Farewell Address, in which he warned against "the influence, whether sought or unsought, of the military-industrial complex."  These days, many people misinterpre...

January 15, 2011

Why Russia Is No Friend of America

Is Russia a potential ally for the United States?G. Murphy Donovan recently argued on AT that Russia is such a great partner of the United States that it could be admitted to NATO.  To back his assertion up, he provided a number of "reasons...

December 27, 2010

Downgrading Defense Capabilities

Our foreign policy establishment believes that America's allotment of conventional weapons is useless.  The DOD's current leaders (Robert Gates, William Lynn, et al.) would love to significantly reduce our numbers in this respect, and they've al...

December 23, 2010

Can Communist China Be America's Partner?

If you ask the Obama administration or the foreign policy establishment in D.C., the answer is "Of course!  And it already is!"And according to AT's own C.W. Getz, China has no reason to fight the U.S. because supposedly, that would be...

December 21, 2010

Why Obama Surrendered the Missile Shield

Documents from the State Department published by WikiLeaks show that the Obama administration surrendered the missile shield previously planned by the Bush administration to Europe because of Russian demands, not because of any supposed intel reports...

December 8, 2010

Why the Senate Should Reject the New START

The new START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) currently under consideration by Congress is irredeemably flawed.  Instead of accepting the "tax cuts for START" deal, Republican senators should reject the treaty for several reasons.Fir...

November 11, 2010

Hands Off the Defense Budget

As Republicans ponder what to do about America's budget deficit and gargantuan public debt, liberals and libertarians are calling on them to agree to severely reduce spending on the most important function of the federal government: defense.Before we...

October 14, 2010

Why Not a 'Fortress America' Policy?

A growing number of Americans, including libertarians, are suggesting that the U.S. should adopt a "Fortress America" foreign/defense policy: withdraw all of its troops from all foreign countries, end all aid to foreign governments, and wit...

August 28, 2010

The Pentagon's Budget Is Not Bloated

With America facing a $1.4-trillion deficit, ideological opponents of a strong defense -- liberals and libertarians alike -- have called on the Congress to severely reduce the defense budget.To try to justify their proposals, they make false claims a...

September 4, 2009

Lies about Bush's record on science

Even though President Bush has left office, the media don't stop lying about his record. But it is surprising that one of the leading anti-Bush media has been the self-proclaimed conservative Daily Telegraph newspaper, which calls itself Britain's #1...

May 3, 2009

The end of Europe's independence

Unless European states and America suddenly adopt a hawkish foreign policy and strengthen their militaries, Europe will become a mere province of the Russian empire.And, surprisingly, the fate of Europe will be decided not in Paris, Berlin, London, o...