Hagel’s Visit to China Showcases Hardening Chinese Line
As Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel returns from his visit to China, reporting on the visit has been mixed. Optimists have tended to focus on… Read More
James R. Schlesinger: Devoted Patriot
The U.S. lost a dedicated public servant yesterday with the passing of James R. Schlesinger, a prominent member of the Washington establishment during a particularly… Read More
3 Things You Don’t Need Robert Gates’s Book to Know
Excerpts from a new tell-all book made quite a splash in Washington yesterday. Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates apparently blasts President Obama on foreign policy… Read More
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Budget-Driven Defense Cuts Signify Hagel’s Lack of Strategy
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel called for “significant change across every aspect of our defense enterprise.” While sequestration drives Secretary Hagel’s remarks, “significant change” is… Read More
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Obama’s Goals in Syria Remain Unclear
Red lines work only when they are red. This is one of the foreign policy lessons President Obama has not learned. The President has had… Read More
Obama’s Unreal New Realities on Syria
Today, President Obama sent Secretary of State John Kerry, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey to testify before the… Read More
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Why Finding Waste in the Pentagon Matters
Can the Pentagon be downsized? Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has selected former Air Force Secretary Michael Donley to oversee a Pentagon downsizing effort to cut… Read More
Rumsfeld on Economic Freedom
Concluding The Heritage Foundation’s fifth annual Protect America Month series, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld shared his insights on why a free-market system that… Read More
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Military: Furloughs Won’t Solve Long-Term Concerns
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has announced that the 800,000 civilian Department of Defense (DOD) employees scheduled for furloughs will take only 11 days without… Read More
ICBMs Continue to Be an Important National Security Asset
The U.S. Air Force recently stripped 17 officers of their authority to control and launch intercontinental-range ballistic missiles (ICBMs) after inspections indentified potential problems that… Read More
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