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Kori Schake is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution

Blasting sacred cows with an army howitzer: Could cuts in military spending go in place of tax increases?

via Patt Morrison (KPCC)
Monday, June 27, 2011

Kori Schake, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and an associate professor of international security studies at the United States Military Academy, discusses, with KPCC’s Patt Morrison, why some congressional Republicans are pushing for significant cuts in military spending, going against the conservative archetype of protecting the Pentagon’s budget at all costs.

Michael A. Spence

Spence notes the United States is not a giant in the future global economy

via Wall Street Journal Report (CNBC)
Friday, June 24, 2011

Michael Spence, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Philip H. Knight Professor Emeritus of Management in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University who was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and the John Bates Clark Medal from the American Economic Association, discusses, with CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo, the changing fortune of the US economy in the twenty-first century.

Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, left, arrives at Andrews Air Force Base in 1980

Trial of a Thousand Years

by Charles Hillvia Hoover Digest
Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Behind the headlines lies an old and basic question: in the clash between Islamism and the nation-state, who will win? By Charles Hill.

How Can Inequality Be Good?

by Gary S. Beckervia Hoover Digest
Wednesday, July 13, 2011

If it prodded people to seek greater productivity, higher pay, and a better standard of living. By Gary S. Becker.

The spark seemed so small. But the Arab autocrats had spent decades heaping up t

Like Striking a Match

by Fouad Ajamivia Hoover Digest
Wednesday, July 13, 2011

The spark seemed so small. But the Arab autocrats had spent decades heaping up the fuel. By Fouad Ajami.

Analysis and Commentary

Sizing Up bin Laden's Successor

by Fouad Ajamivia Wall Street Journal
Friday, June 24, 2011

It was Ayman al-Zawahiri who decreed that it was just to strike the 'far enemy'—the United States...

Analysis and Commentary

President Obama changes direction on Afghanistan, again

by Kori Schakevia Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
Thursday, June 23, 2011

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...

Analysis and Commentary

Obama’s Speech on Afghanistan: The War That Is His and Isn’t

by Fouad Ajamivia New Republic
Thursday, June 23, 2011

It is difficult being war hawks and budget hawks at the same time. Empire, and its wars, are sure not what they used to be. It is sobering that we have poured so much blood and treasure into Afghanistan and we have so little to say about it...

Analysis and Commentary

Duke Law Discussion of Theater Detention Operations

by Benjamin Wittesvia Lawfare
Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Some time back, I spoke at a panel at Duke Law School on detention policy alongside, among others, Michael Gottlieb, who had just completed a fourteen month tour as the top civilian official in Task Force 435 in Afghanistan...

Analysis and Commentary

Can Obama split the difference on Afghanistan?

by Robert Zelnickvia Arena (Politico)
Wednesday, June 22, 2011

If President Obama were as good at governance as he is at politics, he would defer to our generals on the best tactics and timing for ending the war in Afghanistan and use his time reviewing the generals’ results and mobilizing public support for a victorious outcome...

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