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• CHINA'S MILLITARY POWER: A GROWING MILITARY THREAT May 20, 2012
  China's growing military power poses a serious long-term threat to U.S. national security interests and makes a future military confrontation with China increasingly likely, if not inevitable.
• PRESIDENT OBAMA'S FAILING REELECTION STRATEGY May 13, 2012
  Election Day is still more than six months away, but already the negative approach President Obama and his cohorts in the mainstream media are pursuing is faltering.
• MILITARY VICTORY IS NOT AN OUTDATED CONCEPT May 6, 2012
  Deep cuts in the U.S. defense budget will have a negative impact on U.S. national security. Equally, if not more worrisome, are the effects of the strain we are putting on our warriors by endlessly placing them in harm's way with no clear victory they can tell themselves was worth their sacrifice.
• CYBERSECURITY VS. CYBERVAMPIRES: THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS April 29, 2012
  "There are two types of companies left in America; those that have been hacked and know it, and those that have been hacked and don't know it."
• THE GSA AND SECRET SERVICE SCANDALS: SYMPTOMS OF A LARGER PROBLEM April 22, 2012
  Government scandals are nothing new; they have plagued every presidential administration in American history, and they will continue to do so. What's disturbing about the current General Services Administration (GSA) and Secret Service scandals is what they tell us about the changing character of U.S. government employees involved in them.
• THIRTY SECONDS OVER TOKYO April 15, 2012
  Brief events often have the most profound and lasting impact. April 18 is the 70th anniversary of the Doolittle bombing raid on Tokyo, America's first military strike against the Imperial Japanese homeland, four months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. That brief event had a profound and lasting effect on U.S. morale and the war effort following the sho […]
• REPUBLICANS' WAR ON WOMEN April 8, 2012
  Look out American women; Republicans are going to confiscate your contraceptives, cut your pay, revoke your voting rights, and put your children in re-education camps.
• STAND-YOUR-GROUND LAWS: ARE THEY A BRIDGE TOO FAR April 1, 2012
  The Treyvon Martin case has become a media sensation. It has all the necessary elements--tragedy, race, anticipated court-room drama, politics, exploitation, and a gun. We won't know how it will turn out until the authorities in Florida complete their investigation; however it turns out, it's become a rallying cry against stand-your-ground laws--a […]
• DON'T CONFLATE THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD WITH THE EGYPTIAN ARMED FORCES March 25, 2012
  Critics of President Obama are condemning his administration's decision to waive legislative restrictions related to Egypt's democratic transition and allow Egypt's annual Congressional appropriation of $1.3 billion in military assistance to go forward. There is much about the Obama administration's Middle East policy to criticize; but in […]
• AFGHANISTAN: THE BUCK STOPS WITH THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF March 18, 2012
  The American generals that now command and have commanded U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan are among the best warfighters in U.S. history. The U.S. troops under their command are the most skilled, battle-hardened warriors America has ever put in the field. So what went wrong in Afghanistan that's making victory so elusive if not impossible?