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Our innovative military is the most important advantage we have...
June 27, 2012 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
June 20, 2012 | Foreign Policy
Secretary Clinton has done a reasonably good job...But it is difficult to think of a major achievement for which she was a motive force...
April 11, 2012 | Foreign Policy
If the State Department really wants to lead U.S. foreign policy, it needs to stop complaining about the military and act more like it...
April 6, 2012 | Politico
The militarization of U.S. diplomacy is bad policy, and it doesn’t have to be this way...
November 21, 2011 | U.S. News & World Report
Our indebtedness is the greatest national security vulnerability America has, and we can afford to accept greater risk in the short-term (the coming several years) in order to put our country on solid financial footing...
July 13, 2011 | CNN.com
The Obama administration is withholding $800 million in military aid to Pakistan in understandable frustration with the Pakistani military's partial-at-best cooperation with the effort against militant radicals. But this approach is likely to result in even less cooperation...
June 24, 2010 | NPR
From the commentary, I see that I was prepared to cut General McChrystal and his team much more slack than most other people...
June 10, 2010 | NPR
The U.N. Security Council today passed resolution 1929 attaching further sanctions to Iran for pursuance of nuclear programs condemned by the International Atomic Energy Agency...
April 22, 2010 | Washington Times
With the new START treaty and the Nuclear Posture Review accomplished, the Obama administration has an enormous opportunity to capitalize on its momentum. It should propose that NATO negotiate with Moscow to reduce the number of short-range nuclear weapons in Europe...
December 1, 2009 | Sphere (aol.com)
President Obama is in a tight spot politically on Afghanistan. . . .
October 7, 2009 | NPR
The release of Gen. Stanley McChrystal's report on the war in Afghanistan has occasioned full-throated cries of insubordination from the president's liberal supporters...
September 25, 2009 | Wall Street Journal
In his inaugural address in 1961, John F. Kennedy said the United States would “pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend” in defense of liberty...
September 4, 2009 | Foreign Policy
Debate is heating up over strategy and requirements for the war in Afghanistan...
April 24, 2009 | Foreign Policy
March 27, 2009 | Foreign Policy
President Obama's plan for Afghanistan is first rate...
February 3, 2009 | Foreign Policy
As the Obama administration continues its reviews of Iraq and Afghanistan policy, the president seems committed thus far to fulfilling his campaign promise: withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq and shift them to Afghanistan (as many as 30,000 troops perhaps)...
January 27, 2009 | Foreign Policy
Gary Schaub has an op-ed in today's New York Times on the disparity between State and Defense...
January 18, 2009 | Forbes
The Obama administration is trending toward several mistakes in defense policy...
May 11, 2007 | Policy Review
Lost in the debate about how to prevent Iran from crossing the nuclear threshold is the fact that we lack the ability to prevent it...
September 29, 2006 | San Francisco Chronicle
Simple logic shows the fallacy of the military option...
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January 3, 2013 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
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July 16, 2012 | Advancing a Free Society
July 2, 2012 | Advancing a Free Society
June 25, 2012 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
June 7, 2012 | Advancing a Free Society
Professor Schake points us to what she considers the best chart on worldwide defense spending, originally produced by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), the definitive collector of national data on defense capabilities...
May 28, 2012 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
Bashir al Assad's government killed another 90 civilians on Saturday...The reaction of the Free World's leaders reads like a parody of fecklessness...
May 23, 2012 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
The Senate version of the foreign assistance bill is taking shape, and it is commendable for being both sound and a broadly bipartisan approach, even though it signals the death knell of the Obama administration's commitment to "smart power"...
May 17, 2012 | Advancing a Free Society
Alexis Tsipras won the Greek elections...
May 11, 2012 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
This week the [House] moved forward with a budget that would allow the Dept. of Defense to escape the strictures of sequestration...The same House budget imposes a 12 percent reduction this year on the State Dept. budget requested by the White House...
May 10, 2012 | Advancing a Free Society
The government of China has just given yet another reason investors should be wary of operating in the Chinese market...
April 23, 2012 | Advancing a Free Society
France held the first round of its presidential elections over the weekend, and it spells real trouble for President Sarkozy — and German Chancellor Merkel...
April 16, 2012 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes has distinguished himself once again, this time claiming that the Obama administration's refusal to send the 240,000 tons of food aid to North Korea shows that President Obama is tougher than President Bush...
April 15, 2012 | Advancing a Free Society
Tuesday of this week the government of Spain must return to financial markets to auction 12- and 18-month treasury bills...
April 8, 2012 | Advancing a Free Society
Sanctions are clearly biting, but it has not compelled Iran’s leadership to renounce its nuclear ambitions. So the Obama Administration has taken it upon themselves to renounce Iran’s nuclear ambitions for them...
April 4, 2012 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
While Obama administration policy has improved somewhat with the advance of revolutions in the Middle East, it continues to chase rather than positively affect change...
April 3, 2012 | Room for Debate (New York Times)
It’s been a discouraging several weeks in the Afghan war, but we absolutely should not speed the pace of our withdrawal...
March 27, 2012 | Advancing a Free Society
Yes, NATO has shortcomings — they are numerous...But that does not mean NATO is in crisis, going out of business, in desperate need of a new formula for burdensharing, or irrelevant. Because the basic NATO bargain remains sound...
March 21, 2012 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
Michele Flournoy’s extravagant campaign spin on the president’s foreign policy is politics, not policy...
March 16, 2012 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
It's been an alarming few weeks for the Afghan war: American servicemembers videotaped disrespecting Afghan corpses, coalition forces assassinated by Afghan National Security Forces, American servicemembers burning Qurans provoking deadly Afghan riots, an American shamefully killing Afghan civilians, and President Karzai demanding Coalition forces be confined to bases...
March 14, 2012 | Advancing a Free Society
We may be reaching the limit of what the Saudis are willing to sign up for, and that will place significant restrictions on the Administration’s current strategy...
March 1, 2012 | Advancing a Free Society
Since we clearly aren’t interested in turning the screws on the North Korean government, a deal that reduces the suffering of the North Korean people and gains some information on — and even possible control over — their nuclear programs is worth having...
February 27, 2012 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
One thing our intelligence agencies should be absolutely clear about is that we don't know why Iran is making the choices they are. Motivations are the most difficult part of intelligence analysis to get right...
February 18, 2012 | Advancing a Free Society
This week something small but hugely important occurred in Afghanistan: their military leadership concluded an investigation into the attacks on U.S. and other coalition forces, and has made policy recommendations to their government to reduce the incidence of attacks...
February 10, 2012 | Advancing a Free Society
In the midst of all that discouragement, Iranian civil society shows us flashes of all that might be in an Iran whose government was not a threat to its own people and to us...
February 9, 2012 | Room for Debate (New York Times)
Congress should demand that the administration produce a plan with measurable objectives for what our mission in Iraq will achieve. We hold our military to that standard, and we should expect the same of our diplomats...
February 8, 2012 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
The discouraging truth is that despite the State Department's bold assertions in the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review that it will lead through civilian power, its handling of the transition to civilian leadership of our mission in Iraq demonstrates how very far we have yet to go...
February 2, 2012 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
The Obama administration is sending contradictory messages on a crucially important national security subject...
January 31, 2012 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
DOD has produced a budget that cannot be implemented should any reductions beyond the 2013 topline occur...
January 30, 2012 | Advancing a Free Society
If Iran cannot cripple the economies of countries concerned by its nuclear programs, what sway can it expect to have? Thankfully, very little...
January 23, 2012 | Advancing a Free Society
[The Administration's] withdrawal of U.S. forces must have had some other motive than responsibly bringing the war in Iraq to an end...
January 20, 2012 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
Allegiances cast in stone for generations are fracturing -- what opportunities the rocking of boats in the Middle East presents! What a pity the Obama administration can't come up with a strategy to capitalize on them...
January 13, 2012 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
If the LA Times is accurate (and they have the best reporting on the middle east of any American newspaper), the [new National Intelligence Estimate of the war in Afghanistan] is going to be very damaging to the war effort...
January 12, 2012 | Advancing a Free Society
North Korea’s Great Successor is accepting homage for his accession to rule one of the world’s most brutal regimes, and the Obama Administration is evidently in line, hoping to capitalize on Kim Jong Un’s need for food aid and desire to demonstrate his control over his long-suffering country...
January 5, 2012 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
The Pentagon's approach is sensible, but the real problem is the president avoiding a serious discussion about risk -- and that is dangerous when cuts of this magnitude are underway...
January 3, 2012 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
As the new year dawns, we should continue to tighten the screws on this Iranian government and wish the Iranian people well in ending the tyranny that has repressed and impoverished them...
December 14, 2011 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
By not apologizing for what is a clear infraction of an (often compromised) norm of international behavior, President Obama both justifies Iran's attempts to conduct espionage inside the U.S., and makes us look like a brutish superpower that flaunts the rules...
December 13, 2011 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
The Obama administration is attempting to cast the Iraq war as a triumph of the president's vision for American foreign policy...But, in fact, the Iraq war was on a glide path to conclusion at the end of the Bush administration...
December 5, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
The Washington Post story on further fraying U.S.-Pakistani relations in the aftermath of last week’s border firefight in which U.S. forces killed 24 Pakistani soldiers contains a startling revelation...
November 29, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
There is a difference between an autocracy that is inching its way to greater accountability, and an autocracy less and less constrained by responsibility to its people. One we should help to evolve; the other we should help to overthrow...
November 21, 2011 | Room for Debate (New York Times)
The basing agreement is largely symbolic, allowing increased access for United States aircraft to Australian airfields and six-month rotations of Marines that will total 2,500 only in the year 2016. But symbolic agreements are important...
November 14, 2011 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
The Arab League has finally begun to take the well-being of Arab peoples as seriously -- more seriously -- than its cherished dream of Arab unity...
November 9, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
The International Atomic Energy Agency yesterday released a report on the status of Iran’s nuclear programs; it makes alarming reading...
November 5, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
Greek Prime Minister Papandreou survived the parliamentary vote of confidence, vowed to form a national unity government, and hold elections in March...this would appear to recover the modicum of stability earned by the [EU] with its latest bailout package. Not so fast...
October 29, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
Even for an Administration that takes an awful lot of unearned credit, yesterday’s op-ed by Obama National Security Advisor was amazing...
October 21, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
As Libya celebrates and begins constructing a free society, they have the friendship and assistance of the United States government...Iraq once also had the help of the United States, but that time passed when Barack Obama came into office...
October 13, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
Their imperfect understanding of American civil society and underestimation of our intelligence community prevented the plot succeeding. But they probably gained a significantly improved understanding of how our system works that will benefit future plots...
October 4, 2011 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
In its rush to the exits of Afghanistan, the Obama Administration might want to consider the respective attractions of the approaches undertaken by Pakistan and India in Afghanistan...
September 30, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
Amidst this loud nationalist backlash are important signals the Pakistani military is losing its stature within the country, and that would be a good thing for Pakistan and a good thing for the United States...
September 27, 2011 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
Sadly, we need the Pakistanis more than they need us, so until we can find ways to manage by other means the threats emanating from Afghanistan and Pakistan, we're stuck with grudging partial assistance by a Pakistani government that's hedging against our abandonment...
September 20, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
The President claims his plan is “simple math,” but he is making a simple math error by pocketing the same savings twice...
September 19, 2011 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
At the end of the day, Palestinian aspirations would be advanced more by appealing for international support on the basis of the dignity of Palestinians creating their own state rather than having a U.N. coronation for one that may not be strong enough to support itself...
September 14, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
Robert Ford has done our country and the beleaguered revolutionaries in Syria a great service in bearing witness to their struggle...
September 10, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
As we commemorate the solemn anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, it merits celebrating that our art, like our society, has so much to say, and so many different things to say, about the meaning of those events...
August 31, 2011 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
It's incredibly discouraging to see former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney vituperatively reopen disputes from George W. Bush's administration...This cannot assist the conservative cause...
August 25, 2011 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
The Obama Administration's regime change strategy suggests highly unsatisfactory outcomes for cases in which the United States has actual national security interests in the conflict...
August 24, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
The democratic government in Libya may founder — as hopeful revolutionary movements often do — but they are off to a solid start, and they deserve our help...
August 19, 2011 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
America's Secretary of State gave a stunning interview this week, in which she defended the Obama administration's foreign policy choices and claimed that soft power was working to reshape America's image in the world...
August 9, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
Seven months and six revolutions (Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Syria, Yemen) into political upheaval in the part of the world most in need of political change, the Obama Administration still cannot bring itself to take the side of freedom...
August 8, 2011 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
The Taliban succeeded in downing an American helicopter a few days ago, killing 30 American soldiers and seven Afghans...
August 2, 2011 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
President Obama has led from behind in the budget crisis; the president in 2013 could make more responsible choices...
July 25, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
The Labor Department has just released statistics showing that young veterans have a worryingly high rate of unemployment...
July 21, 2011 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
Defense spending will be further cut; that seems inevitable in the current, beneficial, climate of reducing government spending...The question is how much, and what, to cut...
July 8, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
There are five principal reasons to be skeptical Greece can continue to navigate the space between European Monetary Union support and financial markets concern about their creditworthiness...
June 30, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
President Obama would do well to study how his Defense Secretary’s respect for and commitment to the people under his care won their utmost effort to achieve what he set out for them...
June 24, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
...Egypt’s highest religious council — and the senior religious authority among Sunni muslims — published an extraordinary document that should give us all hope Mubarak’s fall may advance freedom, tolerance, and the rule of law in Egypt...
June 23, 2011 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
President Obama was sharply critical of the Bush administration for under-resourcing the war in Afghanistan; with his rapid drawdown of forces and funding announced last night, President Obama now deserves the same criticism...
June 21, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
Whatever one thinks of the constitutionality of the War Powers Act, the President’s novel legal reasoning just isn’t supported by the military operations we are carrying out in Libya...
June 17, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
The choices of the Turkish people and the Turkish government this week give greater hope for a maturing democratic society in Turkey...
June 17, 2011 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
If President Obama chooses to disregard our military and civilian defense leadership's counsel on Afghanistan, he will owe them -- and us -- an explanation...
June 14, 2011 | Room for Debate (New York Times)
Europeans should not expect us to care more about their security than they do, or to pay more for it than they will...
June 10, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
The choices President Obama is making about war powers and cuts to defense spending will leave our military less capable than when he became Commander in Chief...
May 31, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
The Obama Administration is to be commended for resisting the temptation to pick guys they like instead of leaders that have the respect of their military community, command responsibilities in the wars we are fighting, and diversified experience...
May 31, 2011 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
...[I]t is dangerous to argue the cost of prosecuting a war that, while high, is marginal to our expenditures and by no means the driver of our debt, cannot be afforded...
May 19, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
One striking characteristic of the President’s middle east speech was the prevalence of flat declarative statements of what “must” be done...
May 19, 2011 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
President Obama had three significant challenges for his "major address" on the Middle East...
May 13, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
The Obama Administration is edging up on the 60 day limit beyond which no President of the United States can legally keep American military forces involved in combat without approval of the Congress...
May 6, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
The government of Pakistan has been duplicitous, claiming to be our partner in fighting terrorism while harboring our enemies...
May 2, 2011 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
Osama bin Laden's death is welcome news. He symbolized the virulence of al Qaeda animosity to America and also symbolized the limits of American power in fighting this kind of war...
April 30, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
At a time when USAID is asking American taxpayers to borrow 43 cents of every dollar we spend on foreign assistance, they need to perform an awful lot better than they have in Afghanistan to justify the money we are giving them...
April 28, 2011 | Room for Debate (New York Times)
Leon Panetta was the best choice available to the president if he wanted a Democrat to run the Pentagon...
April 27, 2011 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
The way to achieve the different burdensharing arrangement the Obama administration is angling for is to set allies up to succeed, not question their will to achieve our mutual objectives while we sit safely on the sidelines...
April 19, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
We in the West have a tendency to wrap ourselves in the mantle of virtue when using military force, which is no bad thing except when it leads to sloppy thinking about how to use force effectively...
April 15, 2011 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
Cuts of an additional $34 billion a year in a baseline budget of $533 billion will not destroy America's defenses...
April 7, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
Cuts in defense spending are nonetheless occurring and likely to continue, even if the Ryan proposals are adopted, for three reasons...
April 7, 2011 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
Imagine the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff testifying that if defense funding were reduced, seven hundred thousand people in Libya would die, and tens of millions elsewhere in the world. It would be considered fear-mongering of the most repulsive kind...
March 31, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
Reuters and the New York Times have both discovered that even though the President claims his administration is still debating the issue, weeks ago he signed a classified intelligence finding authorizing arming the Libyan rebels...
March 29, 2011 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
My first reaction to the President Obama's speech is that he should have given it ten days ago. He didn't say anything tonight that he couldn't have said when he ordered combat operations to commence...
March 25, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
The White House is unsuccessfully trying to spin themselves out of criticism about Libya by adopting a tone of weary indulgence...
March 22, 2011 | Room for Debate (New York Times)
The U.S. military and political objectives are so far out of alignment that military efforts will need to be expanded or political goals ratcheted down to get to a pragmatic plan for Libya...
March 22, 2011 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
It is such a comfort to know in a world of change, some things can still be relied upon...
March 18, 2011 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
Last night's U.N. Security Council resolution passed with no visible effort by the Obama administration...
March 15, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
I’m not a huge fan of Director of National Intelligence James Clapper...Still, Clapper merits defending against the latest criticism of his job performance...
March 15, 2011 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
Little noticed amidst the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) support for a U.N. no-fly zone in Libya on March 13th was another endorsement for the use of military force: deployment of GCC military and police forces to Bahrain...
March 10, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
What this chart tells us is that the Department of State is increasingly the springboard for other government agencies to work overseas rather our diplomats being the center of our engagement with the world...
March 10, 2011 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
Instead of taking up the call to provide the military force, the United States should instead pull together a coalition to undertake the work...
March 1, 2011 | Room for Debate (New York Times)
...[W]e ought to be very cautious about actually using American military force to affect the rebellion in Libya, for four reasons...
February 28, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
An extraordinary thing happened Saturday at the United Nations...
February 23, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
A government that threatens to kill every single person living in the territory it controls sacrifices all legitimacy. This is the cold, hard face of tyranny, a government with no respect or kindness for those it governs...
February 16, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
The winds of freedom are finally blowing in the Middle East, and undemocratic governments are nervous...
February 10, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
Our creeping dependence on private security firms has eroded protections for Americans doing dangerous work – whether openly or clandestinely. We are long overdue to bring this problem of our own making under control...
February 9, 2011 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
I had been hoping Donald Rumsfeld's memoir would fall like the proverbial tree in the forest, allowing conservatives to focus on the problems of today. But...the former defense secretary's revisionist "slice of history" is gaining credence and needs to be rebutted...
February 2, 2011 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
For an administration that claims there is no conflict between our interests and our values, the Obama administration has sure seemed to have a difficult time balancing U.S. interests in a stable Egypt with the U.S. values of a democratic Egypt...
February 1, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
It’s a good investment in helping prevent militaries being forces of repression...
January 24, 2011 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
The State of the Union address presents the last real opportunity before the opposition in Congress redefines the political landscape...
January 18, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
We should always take sides with peaceful protesters seeking to make their government responsive. The people of Tunisia deserve better from us...
January 13, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
Let us hope the Vice President has come to believe what he said in Kabul yesterday so that the Administration will see this war through to successful conclusion...
January 5, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
The President of Venezuela has once again distinguished himself, offering to allow a U.S. ambassador to take up work...
January 5, 2011 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
The Washington Post is running a series of articles highlighting failed projects funded by the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan...Here are three points they ought to have addressed but did not...
December 16, 2010 | Room for Debate (New York Times)
The most serious obstacle to reducing troops is that Afghanistan will not continue to make progress toward President Obama's objectives without our military there in large numbers to encourage and enforce gains...
December 14, 2010 | Advancing a Free Society
Russian President Vladimir Putin responded to negative characterizations of Russia as a mafia state in the leaked U.S. diplomatic cables by claiming the arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange for sexual assault in Sweden demonstrates the United States isn’t as democratic as we pretend to be...
December 13, 2010 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
...[T]rapping the Obama administration into a sensible alignment of objectives and resources for winning the war in Afghanistan is his coup de grâce. His work repairing the administration's strategy merits studying...
December 8, 2010 | Advancing a Free Society
The Obama Administration took another swing at the piñata over the past two days, trying to persuade Iran to constrain its nuclear program...
December 1, 2010 | Advancing a Free Society
...[T]he Senate has before it for consideration a U.S.-Russian treaty limited strategic nuclear weapons. Termed New START, the treaty would limit deployed strategic weapons to 1,550. The President today termed it “absolutely essential to our national security...”
November 24, 2010 | Advancing a Free Society
It’s been a banner couple of days for the government of North Korea. First, they revealed a new light water reactor and a fully-fashioned nuclear complex to process more weapons-grade uranium. Then they fired hundreds of rounds of artillery shells at South Korea...
November 16, 2010 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
NATO's 28 member states are in the final stages of negotiation on a new ballistic missile defense system...
November 16, 2010 | Advancing a Free Society
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has damaged his own cause once again, this time criticizing the counter-terrorism operations of coalition forces...
November 9, 2010 | Advancing a Free Society
The values that animate American internationalism have been treated by the Obama Administration as something to shroud in order to make America popular abroad...Secretary Clinton’s affirmation of the difference between free people and authoritarian governments is a welcome change...
November 8, 2010 | National Journal Expert Blog: National Security
It's easy to overstate both the rise of Asia and the degree to which they could supplant U.S. influence...Asia is rising, but more slowly and with much more difficulty than we often acknowledge...
November 4, 2010 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
...[Y]esterday, British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy signed a treaty that will bind their defense establishments tightly together for the coming fifty years...
November 3, 2010 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
[N]ow that the dust is settling on the dimensions of Republican victory, what is it likely to mean for the wars we are fighting...?
November 2, 2010 | Advancing a Free Society
Foreign policy has not figured prominently in this election, partly because we’re not selecting a commander in chief. Mostly because bigger issues are at stake than America’s role in the world. We are instead debating what makes America America...
October 26, 2010 | Advancing a Free Society
The notorious website Wikileaks has struck again, this time releasing an enormous hoard of classified U.S. documents pertaining to the Iraq war...
October 25, 2010 | Room for Debate (New York Times)
Surely President Hamid Karzai has enough experience with the United States, nine years into our war in his country, that he understands the uproar that accepting money from Iran will engender...
October 21, 2010 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
As part of the developed world's most dramatic effort to put its public finances on solid footing, the Conservative Liberal Democratic government in Britain announced significant reductions to its defense program yesterday. Their review is a fearless example to others, including the United States...
October 19, 2010 | Advancing a Free Society
Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khameni, goes to Qom today. That doesn’t sound like a front page story, but this could be a hugely important milestone in Iran’s struggle to unwind the extremism of the 1979 revolution...
October 13, 2010 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
The New America Foundation convened a conference this week to showcase the work of Robert Pape, in the hopes that his policy prescriptions will be picked up as an alternative to our current strategy in Afghanistan. This would be a terrible idea...
October 8, 2010 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
Nouri al-Maliki appears close to a deal that will put Iraq's Shi'ia parties in power. After seven months of political wrangling, it would be tempting to believe that any government formed by Iraq's squabbling political leaders is progress...
September 23, 2010 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
The White House is attempting to make the President Obama sound heroic for insisting on an exit strategy, when in fact the president's behavior -- as described in Woodward's book -- betrays a discouraging incapacity as commander in chief...
September 8, 2010 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
I agree with Peter Beinart's basic conclusion that the Obama administration's foreign policy is unsuccessful, but I think his description of what would have made it successful is wildly off the mark, and would have landed the administration in an even worse position than it has played itself into...
August 30, 2010 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
The president is commemorating "the end of the combat operations in Iraq." Except that U.S. military forces remaining in Iraq will continue to have combat responsibilities, both in support of Iraqi forces for internal security, and to protect Iraq from external threats, through at least the end of 2011...
August 20, 2010 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
President Obama should be clear about our continuing combat commitments in Iraq, reconsider the transfer to civilians some of the inherently military tasks our civilian mission in Iraq will require, and revise the security agreement with Iraq to provide for continuing presence of some U.S. military forces after 2011...
August 10, 2010 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
[Secretary Gates] is to be commended for cutting overhead in his department as part of a broader spending reduction. But the combined effects of yesterday's announcement are minuscule...
July 26, 2010 | Room for Debate (New York Times)
The release of these documents doesn’t compromise the war effort, but it will put at greater risk the men and women who are fighting this war and the Afghans that are helping us to win it...
July 13, 2010 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
Advocates of a strong national defense ought to be thinking seriously about entitlement reform...
June 24, 2010 | Room for Debate (New York Times)
The appointment of General Petraeus was a shrewd choice by the administration to minimize the transition costs associated with relieving General McChrystal...
June 22, 2010 | Room for Debate (New York Times)
Anyone who thinks they can do a better job than General McChrystal..., ought to step forward. Until then, we ought to let him concentrate his efforts on winning the war we’re fighting...
June 22, 2010 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
The president ought to be willing to endure a lack of political polish in his war-fighters. He's already got plenty of political generals; he ought to want one or two that can actually win the wars we're fighting...
June 7, 2010 | National Journal Expert Blog: National Security
Imagine the circumstances reversed: what would Turkey do if Israelis supportive of the PKK set out to break Turkey's ability to prevent weapons being shipped to that terrorist organization...?
May 12, 2010 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
Secretary Gates is right to assert that "we need to evaluate the criteria upon which requirements are based and the wider real world context." I just wish he would do so...
May 7, 2010 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
Watching Greeks fire-bomb their banks, shut down their airports and ruin the tourist trade that is their economy's main prospect, I can't help but hear Virgil reprised...
April 26, 2010 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
Despite allowing the Iranian government to escape sanction for a year of not accepting sugar-coated Western deadlines to abandon their nuclear program, and doing nothing about discovery of another nuclear plant at Qom, Team Obama is suddenly making an awful lot of noise...
March 31, 2010 | Foreign Policy
As Politico has pointed out, the Obama administration has a tendency to describe their every action as "unprecedented." In the case of the U.S.-Russia Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, this is actually true.
March 27, 2010 | Foreign Policy
Iraq's Parliamentary election results were announced Friday afternoon: Ayad Allawi's Iraqi National Movement garnered 91 Parliamentary seats, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's State of Law 89. . . .
February 26, 2010 | Foreign Policy
Let's hope Odierno's request surprises the administration into paying closer attention at this crucial juncture and giving the commander of U.S. Forces Iraq the resources he needs to manage well the endgame of the Iraq war. . . .
February 22, 2010 | National Journal
This week the Obama administration renamed the Iraq war "Operation New Dawn," ushering in an endgame of U.S. troop withdrawals over the next two years and a steady reduction of the U.S. role and influence in the everyday life of that nation. . . .
February 16, 2010 | Foreign Policy
Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban's putative No. 2 and organizer of military operations was captured several days ago at a madrassa near the Pakistani city of Karachi. . . .
January 20, 2010 | Foreign Policy
The policy I would most strongly advocate President Obama changing is profligate spending, and conservatives should help him do that by supporting cuts in defense spending. . . .
January 8, 2010 | Foreign Policy
The president's problem is that the lack of urgency about terrorist threats described in the administration's report on the Christmas attack sounds an awful lot like the attitudes that prevailed before 9/11. . . .
January 4, 2010 | Foreign Policy
Somehow, I fear the Obama administration might still be too busy labeling as "unprecedented" their activity from 2009 for the task of inventorying areas for self-improvement, so here are two suggestions for their consideration: . . . .
December 2, 2009 | Foreign Policy
I disagree somewhat with my friend Peter Feaver about the president's plan for Afghanistan deserving the support of us loyal opposition. . . .
December 1, 2009 | Corner (National Review Online)
The president was underwhelming at West Point. . . .
November 9, 2009 | Foreign Policy
The Iraqi Parliament has passed a law that will allow elections to proceed in January, and on terms that will make Iraqi politicians more accountable to Iraqi voters and foster continued stabilization of the Iraqi political landscape. . . .
October 28, 2009 | Foreign Policy
Sunday was another tragic day in Iraq, more than 150 people were killed and another 500 injured in attacks on the Ministries of Justice and Interior in Baghdad...
October 9, 2009 | Foreign Policy
It's nice that the Nobel Committee wants to shower the president with approval -- it's a good thing for the United States -- but it's likely to remind Americans that the president is being rewarded for behaving in the world the way Europeans behave...
October 6, 2009 | Foreign Policy
The release of Gen. Stanley McChrystal's report on the war in Afghanistan has occasioned full-throated cries of insubordination from the president's liberal supporters...
September 21, 2009 | Washington Post
Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top military commander in Afghanistan, in a confidential assessment submitted to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, warns in grim and urgent language that he needs additional troops — from 10,000 up to 45,000 more in the next year — or the conflict “will likely result in failure.”...
September 16, 2009 | Foreign Policy
Skepticism grows in President Obama's party about his presumed endorsement of General Stanley McChrystal's assessment of the strategy and resources required to succeed in Afghanistan...
September 16, 2009 | Foreign Policy
Skepticism grows in President Obama's party about his presumed endorsement of General Stanley McChrystal's assessment of the strategy and resources required to succeed in Afghanistan...
August 7, 2009 | Foreign Policy
Assistant to the President John Brennan gave a speech yesterday, ostensibly a landmark address...
August 7, 2009 | Foreign Policy
Assistant to the President John Brennan gave a speech yesterday, ostensibly a landmark address...
July 3, 2009 | Foreign Policy
This weekend we celebrate our country's independence and the courage of those brave men who met in congress in Philadelphia to chart a path to greater liberty...
Interviews
May 21, 2013 | John Batchelor Show
April 26, 2013 | News Hour
April 23, 2013 | John Batchelor Show
February 8, 2013 | John Batchelor Show
February 1, 2013 | Forum with Michael Krasny (KQED)
January 29, 2013 | Secure Freedom Radio
January 28, 2013 | John Batchelor Show
December 18, 2012 | Final Say (Blog Talk Radio)
December 5, 2012 | Daily Southtown (IL)
November 20, 2012 | Secure Freedom Radio
November 16, 2012 | John Batchelor Show
November 14, 2012 | Voice of America
November 14, 2012 | Blog Talk Radio
November 12, 2012 | America's Radio News Network - Afternoon Edition
October 23, 2012 | Gil Gross Program (KKSF)
October 22, 2012 | John Batchelor Show
October 3, 2012 | Final Say (Blog Talk Radio)
October 4, 2012 | Secure Freedom Radio
October 3, 2012 | John Batchelor Show
September 12, 2012 | Blog Talk Radio
August 28, 2012 | Secure Freedom Radio
August 27, 2012 | Forum with Michael Krasny (KQED)
August 23, 2012 | Final Say (Blog Talk Radio)
July 2, 2012 | Special Report with Bret Baier (Fox News)
June 26, 2012 | Voice of Russia
April 24, 2012 | John Batchelor Show
Guests: Co-Host Mary Kissel, WSJ; Rep. Devin Nunes, (R-CA); Kori Schake, Hoover; Rick Fisher, International Assessment and Strategies Center; Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover...
March 1, 2012 | Secure Freedom Radio
If Iran is creating a nuclear program for civilian use, which DNI Clapper seems to believe, then why wont they open their facilities to IAEA inspectors? Kori Schake provides her analysis on this growing threat...
February 28, 2012 | John Batchelor Show
Guests: John Casey, author; Bob Zimmerman, Behind the Black; Kori Schake, Hoover...
February 15, 2012 | John Batchelor Show
Guests: Co-Host Gordon Chang, Forbes; Joseph Sternberg, WSJ; Kori Schake, Hoover; Jen Pinkowsky, Science Magazine; Peter Coy, Bloomberg...
February 2, 2012 | America's Radio News Network - The Drive Home
[Interview begins around 53:40]...
January 31, 2012 | America's Radio News Network - Afternoon Edition
[Interview begins around 54:00]...
December 15, 2011 | On Point (NPR)
The Iraq war and America. After almost nine years, the troops are nearly home. We’ll weigh the war...
October 25, 2011 | Secure Freedom Radio
Kori Schake of the Hoover Institution examines how she is hopeful that Libya after forty years of dictatorship will rise to the occasion and establish helpful social services for its people...
October 21, 2011 | Patt Morrison (KPCC)
Is this the face of modern warfare? Will the soft hand of diplomacy, rather that military might, be successful amidst renewed democracy movements around the world...?
October 20, 2011 | America's Radio News Network - Afternoon Edition
[Interview begins around 53:00]...
October 20, 2011 | Daily Wrap (Wall Street Journal Radio Network)
Extensive coverage on the death of Moammar Gaddafi and what the future is for Libya... [Interview begins around 12:30]
October 20, 2011 | John Batchelor Show
GUESTS: Mary Kissel, WSJ; Kori Schake, Hoover; David Weidner, WSJ; Amity Shlaes, author...
August 17, 2011 | Morning Edition (NPR)
Analysts say cuts force the U.S. to make choices about its role as the sole military superpower…
August 1, 2011 | KGO-TV (San Francisco)
One trillion dollars in spending cuts will be triggered when President Obama signs the Budget Control Act of 2011 following ratification by Congress. About a third of the $1 trillion will be cut from defense spending...
July 12, 2011 | John Batchelor Show
GUESTS: Jack Ewing, NYT; Kori Schake, Hoover Institute; Steve Moore, WSJ...
June 27, 2011 | Patt Morrison (KPCC)
Would you support dramatic decreases in military spending as a way to cut the deficit, or would you rather support the spending with tax increases...?
May 11, 2011 | National Security Review (PJTV)
Will the Latest White House Shake Up Make America Safer? Bill Whittle talks to the Hoover Institution’s Kori Schake for an in-depth look at these issues...
May 2, 2011 | John Batchelor Show
A Special Edition of The John Batchelor Show: The Death of Osama Bin Laden [Schake begins around 32:25]...
April 18, 2011 | John Batchelor Show
GUESTS: Louise Story, NYT; John Bolton, AEI; Charles Pellegrino, author; Kori Schake, Hoover...
April 3, 2011 | John Batchelor Show
GUESTS: Joseph Sternberg, WSJ Asia, and Gordon Chang, The Daily and Forbes.com, in re: Last year, 140% of China's sales figures were sales to the US, Kori Schake, Hoover, in re: Mission creep in Libya...
March 28, 2011 | John Batchelor Show
GUESTS: John Avlon, CNN; Jeff Bliss, The Bliss Index; Kori Schake, Hoover; David Drucker, Roll Call; Farrah Stockman, Bostong Globe; Bill Roggio, Long War Journal...
March 21, 2011 | John Batchelor Show
GUESTS: Stephen Erlanger, NYT; Kori Schake, Hoover; Dr. David Grinspoon; Jeff Zeleny, NYT...
March 16, 2011 | World Tonight (BBC)
Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme bringing you global news and analysis...
January 13, 2011 | John Batchelor Show
GUESTS: Bill McGurn, WSJ; Kori Schake, Hoover; Mark Schroeder, Stratfor.com...
December 8, 2010 | John Batchelor Show
GUESTS: Evan Ramstad, AWSJ; Kori Schake, Hoover Institution; John Loftus, author of "America's Nazi Secrets"; Hugo Restall, AWSJ...
December 7, 2010 | Wisconsin Public Radio
Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder, was arrested in London today. After four, Ben Merens and his guest discuss WikikLeaks and its founder, and how the continued threat of further releases troubles the U.S....
December 3, 2010 | Connect the World (CNN International)
Whether what WikiLeaks does is a form of spying or freedom is a matter of debate among experts...
November 19, 2010 | World Tonight (BBC)
Big choices face NATO on Afghanistan, missile defence and its future mission,in Lisbon. The Nobel Prize committee tells us why China's 'stay away campaign' won't work. Why can't you repair damaged classical sculpture's Berlusconi style...?
November 15, 2010 | Talk of the Nation (NPR)
The Pentagon's budget has doubled since September 11, and a growing number of Republicans are joining the calls for cuts. Several newly-elected conservatives say the budget deficit is so large that they're open to slashing the Defense department budget to reduce the debt...
October 26, 2010 | Which Way, L.A.? (KCRW)
At a London news conference, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was joined by Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers almost 40 years ago. Ellsberg called Assange "the most dangerous man in the world..."
October 26, 2010 | BBC News
Afghan President Hamid Karzai defends taking bags of money from Iran. The US State Department is skeptical about Iranian motives surrounding the payments. Iran says the "assistance" helps reconstruction. So is it wrong for Afghanistan to accept cash from Iran...?
October 26, 2010 | To The Point (KCRW)
The Pentagon says WikiLeaks has put lives at risk and given adversaries valuable information. Others say official distortions and wrong-doing have been exposed...
September 30, 2010 | New Atlanticist (Atlantic Council)
Kori Schake is the former Director for Defense Strategy and Requirements at the National Security Council...I had the opportunity to discuss her thoughts on some key issues of interest to the Atlantic Council community...
September 23, 2010 | Front Page with Allen Barton (PJTV)
Allen Barton sits down with Hoover Institution scholar Kori Schacke to discuss some of the more shocking revelations in Woodward's new book, Obama's War...
September 15, 2010 | Diane Rehm Show (NPR)
The cost of the U.S. presence in Afghanistan and Iraq now tops $1 trillion, and the nation’s debt tops thirteen trillion: New pressures to rein in the Pentagon’s budget and implications for national security...
September 8, 2010 | Special Report with Bret Baier (Fox News)
Clinton concerned with U.S. spending...
August 2, 2010 | Wisconsin Public Radio
In a speech today before a convention of Disabled American Veterans, President Obama announced that the draw-down of U.S. combat troops in Iraq is on schedule - down to 50,000 troops by the end of August...
June 28, 2010 | Minnesota Public Radio
While General David Petraeus is expected to win Senate approval as Afghanistan commander, he could face tough questions about the direction of the war at his confirmation hearings...
June 23, 2010 | All Things Considered (NPR)
Robert Siegel talks with two military analysts: Kori Schake, senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution and former director of defense strategy at the National Security Council from 2002-2005...
June 23, 2010 | Dylan Ratigan Show (MSNBC)
Kori Schake appears on MSNBC's The Dylan Ratigan Show...
June 23, 2010 | To The Point (KCRW)
General McChrystal is out as commander in Afghanistan, replaced by General David Petraeus, one of America's best-known military leaders...
May 24, 2010 | Public Radio International
Defense Secretary Robert Gates has advised President Obama to veto spending for projects the Pentagon doesn't want. But Gate's own proposals mean the Defense Budget might not decline after all...
April 29, 2010 | Trunews Radio
An expert on nuclear nonproliferation issues, Professor Schake served in President Bush’s first term as the director for Defense Strategy and Requirements on the National Security Council, she comments today on the most recent threats by rogue nations...
December 1, 2009 | CNN
Kori Schake, a onetime adviser to former U.S. President George W. Bush, says President Barack Obama's Afghanistan strategy is repeating earlier U.S. mistakes. . . .
February 5, 2013 | Policy Review
February 1, 2012 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
There can be no "solidarity" without a loss of national greatness...
October 13, 2011 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
This military adventure has set a precedent we may not want to repeat...
September 2, 2011 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
Wouldn’t it be nice if we had one...?
May 6, 2011 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
What our country’s nineteenth century experience teaches us about China today...
January 27, 2011 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
Those looking to reduce federal spending should not target the Department of Defense for cuts...
September 28, 2010 | U.S. Naval War College
William B. Ruger Chair of National Security Economics Papers Number 5 - Economics and Security: Resourcing National Priorities...
February 19, 2009 | Foreign Policy
A few days ago was the release of Shadow blogger Kori Schake's new book, Managing American Hegemony: Essays on Power in a Time of Dominance...
