Tag Archives: national defense
A New Declaration of Independence
Judges don’t belong in the national-security business, so let’s get them out of it. Continue reading
D-Day for the Dems
Unless the left figures out how to make peace with the notion of legitimate self-defense, Dems (and let’s hope not the rest of the country) may be in for a rude awakening. Continue reading
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Slow Roll Time At Langley
At the Central Intelligence Agency, it’s known as “slow rolling.” That’s what agency officers sometimes do on politically sensitive assignments. They go through the motions; they pass cables back and forth; they take other jobs out of the danger zone; they cover their backsides.
Sad to say, it’s slow roll time at Langley after the release of interrogation memos that, in the words of one veteran officer, “hit the agency like a car bomb in the driveway.” Continue reading
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Declining Defense
For all of his lavish new spending plans, President Obama is making one major exception: defense. His fiscal 2010 budget telegraphs that Pentagon spending is going to be under pressure in the years going forward. Continue reading
Winning a Cyber War
The ‘soft underbelly’ of U.S. security. The Central Asian Republic of Kyrgyzstan experienced a cyber attack last month that took down its two largest Web sites. But that’s small beer compared to what happened to the Pentagon and several other … Continue reading
