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Defense's Death Spiral: The Increasing Irrelevance of More Spending

The military's backward budget process -- driven by parochial service interests rather than White House or Pentagon priorities -- must be fixed, and soon. By John Hillen (Foreign Affairs, 7/1/1999). Read More...

French Views on Missile Defense

France does not object to the idea of missile defense in general, but feel that NMD will alter the strategic balance, and is not commensurate to the true potential scenario of attack against the US. ... Read More...

Star Wars Strikes Back

America is pouring billions of dollars into research and development, ignoring the fundamental flaws that missile defense has yet to overcome. By Michael O'Hanlon. (Foreign Affairs, 11/1/1999, $) Read More...

The Missile Defense Debate

The Bush administration claims national missile defense can protect the United States from long-range missiles fired by rogue states. But that threat is trivial, and Washington's unilateralist approac... Read More...

It won't work, so why do we play along with U.S.?

Critical of U.S. missile defense system and argues that Canada should not support it. By John C. Polanyi. (Toronto Star, 8/25/2003) Read More...

A New Model Afghan Army

The Afghans have been slow to create a national army, and the international community has not helped much. The United States must jump-start the process before war breaks out again. By Anja Manuel and... Read More...

A Tale of Two Secretaries

Examines Donald Rumsfeld as a secretary of war and as a secretary of defense. By Eliot A. Cohen. (Foreign Affairs, 5/1/2002) Read More...

Calling All Regio-Cops: Peacekeeping's Hybrid Future

A new, hybrid form of peacekeeping is on the rise: regional interventions backed by the U.N. This solution may not be pretty, but unlike U.N. missions, it works. By Michael Hirsh. (Foreign Affairs, 11... Read More...

Come Partly Home, America: How to Downsize U.S. Deployments Abroad

America should not abdicate its military duties abroad. But careful cuts in the number of U.S. troops overseas could alleviate some current problems without sacrificing U.S. interests or strategic goa... Read More...

Getting Beyond New York: Reforming Peacekeeping in the Field

(World Policy Journal, 9/1/2001) Read More...

Keeping America's Military Edge

The U.S. military dominates the world, holding a qualitative edge over friend and foe alike. But that edge may now be slipping. Washington must make major changes, and fast. By Ashton B. Carter. (Fore... Read More...

The Paradoxes of American Military Power

Explores strange new guidelines about the way the United States fights in Iraq. By Victor Davis Hanson. (National Review, 11/17/2003) Read More...

Ground Troop Scenarios for Yugoslavia: What Would They Take?

(Heritage Foundation, 4/21/1999) Read More...

Europe's Next Big Idea: Strategy and Economics Point to a European Military

After unifying its currencies, Europe is trying to build its own army. The idea is good strategy and better economics. By Richard Medley. (Foreign Affairs, 9/1/1999) Read More...

Humanitarian Aid Is Not a Military Business

In Iraq, the US use of humanitarian aid as a political asset threatens the efficiency and equity of aid operations. (Belfer Center, 4/15/2003) Read More...

Preparing for the Next Attack

The United States is the target of a few hostile nations and terrorist groups, some of them state-sponsored. To meet these new threats, Washington must pursue three strategies: prevention, deterrence... Read More...

Deterrence and the ABM: Retreading the Old Calculus

(World Policy Journal, 9/1/2001) Read More...

Evolving U.S.-China Military Ties with China and Taiwan.

A discussion with the Honorable Kurt Campbell (Nixon Center, 1/30/2003) Read More...

U.S. Security and Military Cooperation with the Countries of the South Caucasus

(Belfer Center, 5/13/2003) Read More...

Institute of World Politics

The Institute of World Politics (IWP) is an independent graduate school of statecraft and national security affairs offering evening courses taught by the nation's leading scholar - practitioners. Read More...

President Bush Addresses the Nation

(03/19/2003) Read More...

Revitalizing National Defense

Shortly after his inauguration, President Bush called for a review of all U.S. military capabilities setting the goal of how best to achieve the necessary transformation to meet the new challenges of ... Read More...

National Security Strategy

The National Security Strategy of the United States of America (09/17/2002) Read More...

Focusing Defense Resources to Meet National Security Requirements

By making smart investments and freeing wasted resources, the U.S. armed forces can increase their capability in the near term and be better prepared to fight and win America's wars. (Heritage Founda... Read More...

Critical Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security

Critical infrastructure protection must assume a principal place on the US Homeland Security agenda and be backed by action. Failure to do so would leave the United States unnecessarily vulnerable. (... Read More...

After the 9/11 Disaster: Washington’s Struggle to Improve Homeland Security

The impulse to respond to 9/11 by enhancing efforts to protect the United States is perfectly natural and understandable. But an honest and dispassionate assessment must evaluate both the opportunit... Read More...

A Scary Thought: Loose Nukes in North Korea

This development undermines global nonproliferation efforts that have been successful for decades, and represents an imminent danger to the security of the region. Our position in that diplomacy must ... Read More...

Nuclear Conflicts of the Twenty-First Century

Examines the prospects for nuclear conflict in the next 20-25 years, a time period that has been identified by some as the"second nuclear age." (Belfer Center, 2/1/2003) Read More...

The New Threat of Mass Destruction

The risk of a catastrophic exchange of nuclear missiles has receded. Yet the chances of some use of weapons of mass destruction have risen. The United States must pull back from excessive foreign in... Read More...

A new course needed in Iraq

Proposes a success strategy for American involvement in Iraq. By Wesley Clark. (Boston Globe, 11/6/2003) Read More...

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