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Tue. May 20, 2025

Social Media: Defense & Military

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Wanted: UN peace force

The need for one can be seen in Liberia. (Guardian, 7/29/2003) Read More...

Thinking About TMD: Relations With China and Asia’s Stability

(Nixon Center, 1/6/1999) Read More...

Are U.S. Troops in Japan Needed? Reforming the Alliance

Americans see the presence of U.S. troops in Japan as a gracious favor. Well, it's time for the Americans to go home. By Morihiro Hosokawa. (Foreign Affairs, 7/1/1998, $) Read More...

China’s People’s Liberation Army: Its Future and American Interests

(Nixon Center, 12/1/1998) Read More...

China's Techno-Warriors

A review of Evan A. Feigenbaum's "China's Techno-Warriors: National Security and Strategic Competition from the Nuclear to the Information Age" (Belfer Center, 4/7/2003) Read More...

United States Military Forces in Asia Maintain the Peace and Advance Democracy

US presence in East Asia serves to balance the powers of the region and preserve peace and security. (Heritage Foundation, 1/10/2003) Read More...

The Challenges and Imperatives in Taiwan's Defense

Beijing can have no illusions with regard to America's commitments to Taiwan's security. The United States has an interest in ensuring that Taiwan develops a highly capable civilian controlled milita... Read More...

North Korea's Connection to International Trade in Drugs, Counterfeiting, and Arms

The Kim Jong-il regime resembles a cult-based, family-run criminal enterprise rather than a government. United States diplomacy should be aimed at increasing the economic and political pressure on Pyo... Read More...

The Missile-Defense Mistake: Undermining Strategic Stability and the ABM Treaty

Washington's plans for a national missile-defense system threaten the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty -- the foundation of international strategic stability (Foreign Affairs, 9/1/2000) Read More...

The Folly of Arms Control

Ten years after the end of the Cold War, nuclear danger is rising. Despite the end of the struggle in whose name the great nuclear arsenals were built, Washington now seeks to stop proliferation while... Read More...

Defending America in the Twenty-first Century

Despite a vast budget that dwarfs the military spending power of both friends and foes, the U.S. military today remains stuck in the past. The next president must seize the opportunity to remake the m... Read More...

Security Lessons from the Cold War

Unlike the Soviet Union, America innovatively melded public and private efforts to make new arms systems, use interservice rivalries as a goad to innovation, and draw on U.S. technological expertise. ... Read More...

One-Day Wonder: The dangerous absurdity of the Bush-Putin arms treaty

The Moscow Treaty ensures maximum US nuclear flexibility. The result is a treaty that makes the world no safer than it was before, and much the worse for failing to achieve a genuine reduction in nucl... Read More...

Afghanistan and the Future of Warfare

(Foreign Affairs, 3/1/2003, $) Read More...

The Future of the Russian Military: Managing Geopolitical Change and Institutional Decline

(Heritage Foundation, 12/12/1996) Read More...

Defense for the 21st Century

Donald Rumsfeld addresses objections made to the President Bush's proposed Defense Transformation Act for the 21st Century. (Washington Post, 5/22/2003) Read More...

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Beyond the Axis of Evil: Additional Threats from Weapons of Mass Destruction

(Heritage Foundation, 3/6/2002) Read More...

Congress Should Commend Britain on Missile Defense Radar Upgrade

Britain's move is the first step in creating an allied ballistic missile defense. Is the US government really doing them a favor? Read More...

No Defense for Criticism on Missile Defense Testing

Criticism for the Bush Administration's desire to see a missile defense with an operational capability is not warranted. An operational capability is better than no defense at all. (Heritiage Founda... Read More...

Keeping Missile Defense at the Heart of Defense Transformation

Congress should help to accelerate the missile defense program by incorporating the Bush administration's proposals into the annual defense authorization bill. (Heritage Foundation, 3/7/2003) Read More...

The Political-Military Dimension of U.S. Policy Toward Taiwan

The Heritage Foundation is a research and educational institute - a think tank - whose mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limi... Read More...

United States Military Forces in Asia Maintain the Peace and Advance Democracy

By Larry M. Wortzel, Ph.D. (Heritage Foundation, 1/10/2003 Read More...

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