It’s hard to miss the irony: Leon Panetta, as President Clinton’s budget guru, backed billions of dollars in Pentagon cuts. Now, as secretary of defense, he’s warning that the U.S….
Yearly Archives: 2011
An ‘Indispensible Nation’ No More?
November 17, 2011 • In the News • Source: National Journal
Sustaining robust U.S. leadership will mean making some tough strategic choices. Americans will have to rank core U.S. interests in order of priority; determine an affordable size for hard- and…
Pentagon Spending Cuts: Dangerous Or Just Overdue?
November 16, 2011 • In the News • Original: Associated Press
The Pentagon says threatened budget cuts will invite aggression, endanger national security and devastate its operations/…/Panetta told senators in a letter this week that after a decade of the threatened…
Army Aims To Save By ‘Buying Less, More Often’
November 16, 2011 • In the News • Original: Wall Street Journal
White Sands Missile Range was the site of the first atomic-bomb test in 1945. Now the Army is using the New Mexico complex for a different kind of test: to…
Why Obama Should Take Out Iran’s Nuclear Program
November 9, 2011 • By Eric Edelman and Andrew F. Krepinevich • Analysis, Nuclear Strategy & Forces
The Case for Striking Before It’s Too Late The November 8 International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report casts further doubt on Iran’s continual claims that its nuclear program is intended…