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On Cybersecurity For The Internet Of Things
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by Herbert Linvia Lawfare
George Shultz and Henry Kissinger testify before the US Senate Armed Services Committee
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featuring George P. Shultz, Henry A. Kissingervia United States Senate
CIA Headquarters
Let the C.I.A. Do What It Is Supposed to Do
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by Amy Zegartvia New York Times
Red, White And Peaceful: Advancing U.S. Security Through Peaceful Means
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by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Kiron K. Skinnervia National Interest
White House at night
Keeping The Public In The Dark
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by Kori Schakevia US News
War Plane
Five Principles That Should Govern Any U.S. Authorization Of Force
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by Jack Goldsmith, Ryan Goodman, Steve Vladeck via Washington Post
Obama, Not Bush, Is the Master of Unilateral War
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by Jack Goldsmith, Matthew Waxmanvia New Republic
Views from Admiral Gary Roughead, USN (Ret.)
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featuring Admiral Gary Rougheadvia US Senate
War Plane
Airstrikes Can Only Do So Much to Combat ISIS
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by Joseph Feltervia Room for Debate (New York Times)
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The Amoral Nature of the Pawn Strategy
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by Victor Davis Hansonvia Corner (National Review Online)

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G-8 Precipice

by Victor Davis Hansonvia National Review Online
Friday, June 8, 2007

The fitting geological metaphor for the so-called G-8 meeting in Germany is not a summit, but a precipice — as the world’s leaders scramble around to grab something before one of them falls into the abyss...

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Lessons from Normandy

by Victor Davis Hansonvia Tribune Media Services
Thursday, June 7, 2007

War is by nature horrific, fraught with foolish error — and only won by the side that commits the least number of mistakes...

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Sec. of Veterans Affairs Jim Nicholson

with R. James "Jim" Nicholsonvia Uncommon Knowledge
Wednesday, June 6, 2007

U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs R. James "Jim" Nicholson met with Hoover fellows on Wednesday, June 6, as the guest of honor at a roundtable discussion.

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Perry: U.S. Eyed Iran Attack After Bombing

with William J. Perryvia United Press International
Wednesday, June 6, 2007

A former U.S. defense secretary says he now believes al-Qaida rather than Iran was behind a 1996 truck bombing at an American military base...

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Former Defense Secretary To Urge Better Nuclear Security

with William J. Perryvia New York Sun
Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Governments are not doing enough to prevent terrorists from acquiring nuclear weapons, a former secretary of defense, William Perry, says, and he will deliver that message tonight in Midtown at a "teach-in" fund-raiser for the Nuclear Threat Institute...

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Former Pentagon chief blames Republican Congress for failed nuclear agreement with N.K.

with William J. Perryvia Yonhap News (South Korea)
Wednesday, June 6, 2007

An earlier nuclear agreement with North Korea failed in part because of a change of power in the U.S. Congress, which discouraged the administration from following through with incentives that could have made a difference in Washington's relations with Pyongyang, a former U.S. defense secretary said Tuesday...

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Warfare on the Installment Plan

by Niall Fergusonvia Opinion Journal (Wall Street Journal)
Tuesday, June 5, 2007

War finance is not rocket science...

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Honesty About Iraq

by Victor Davis Hansonvia National Review Online
Tuesday, June 5, 2007

The United States can usually win even postmodern wars abroad if it can play to its strengths — which are marshaling our enormous material, intelligence, and technological advantages to defeat the enemy before he inflicts enough casualties to convince an affluent and comfortable public at home that such losses are simply not worth the envisioned aims...

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Still in Greece

by Victor Davis Hansonvia Works and Days
Monday, June 4, 2007

Lebanon is engaged in a deadly war against Palestinian al Qaeda-affiliates, and has resorted to massive and inherently indiscriminate shelling of Palestinian camp hideouts in Beirut—in a manner far more savage than the CNN-BBC monitored Israeli responses...

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Comment on Military Pay

by Gary S. Beckervia Becker-Posner Blog
Monday, June 4, 2007

Posner raises an important issue: why do Americans (and persons of other nationalities) grieve so much when American military personnel (or the military personnel of these nations) are killed during military actions, even when those killed had volunteered for military service?

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