Peter Schweizer

Peter Schweizer

Peter Schweizer is a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University and a former consultant to NBC News. He is a New York Times best-selling author of more than a dozen books. From 2008-2009 he served as a consultant to the Office of Presidential Speechwriting at the White House. He received his M.Phil. from Oxford University and his B.A. from George Washington University.
Peter Schweizer

Navy Avoids Most of Pentagon’s Cuts? I’d Give Up a Carrier to Keep More Grunts Any Day

Posted by Peter Schweizer Jan 27th 2012 at 8:52 am in Afghanistan, Africa, Congress, Featured Story, Iraq, Military Funding, Military Technology, Obama, Soldiers, Strategy, Weapons | Comments(47)
The Army, Marines, and Air Force might be getting hammered with the new proposed Pentagon budget, but the Navy avoids the hammer.  The Army will cut 80,000 men and the Marines 20,000; the Air Forces is proposing to cut seven squadrons. But the Navy? As the Navy Times reports: Navy:  we get to keep ours The U.S. [...]
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Military Drops ‘Birth Control Glasses’

Posted by Peter Schweizer Jan 26th 2012 at 6:05 am in Culture/Art, Soldiers | Comments(51)
An infamous icon from the American military are going into the dustbin of history.  S-9 glasses, called “Birth Control Glasses” because they are so ugly, will be replaced by a new more attractive design.   Although are they that much of an improvement? What should we do with the old S-9s?  Maybe we should make them [...]
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How to Counter the Chinese Navy… on the Cheap?

Posted by Peter Schweizer Jan 23rd 2012 at 3:58 pm in Asia, China, Featured Story, Military Funding, Military Technology, Strategy, Weapons | Comments(95)
The rise of Chinese military power in Asia has been a concern for the United States and our allies in the region.  But in an era of defense cuts and a shrinking US Navy,  how to best counter them? Is smaller…better? Navy Commander Bryan McGrath offers an intriguing suggestion that makes sense both in terms of strategic [...]
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Syria To Buy Half A Billion Dollars Worth Of Russian Jets

Posted by Peter Schweizer Jan 23rd 2012 at 9:19 am in Middle East, Military Technology, Russia, Weapons | Comments(33)
Syria may be ravaged by civil war,  but the Assad government has inked a new deal with Russia to purchase $550 million worth of military jets.   It’s doubtful that the 36 YAK -130 will be of particular use against anti-Assad protesters.  It’s more likely that Syria is greasing some important palms in Russia to [...]
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How Obama’s Defense R & D Cuts Will Damage Our Security And Competitiveness

Posted by Peter Schweizer Jan 23rd 2012 at 7:45 am in Congress, Economy, Featured Story, Military Funding, Military Technology, Obama, Weapons | Comments(42)
On the chopping block for Pentagon reductions are major defense systems and the size of our armed forces. But overlooked in the debate over whether and how much to cut in defense is the potentially devastating effect that President Obama’s defense reductions will have on military research and development. Historically, military R&D has not only [...]
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Shock Video: Sheep Beating Video With US Army Soldiers Watching Now Under Investigation

Posted by Peter Schweizer Jan 19th 2012 at 5:35 am in Afghanistan, Featured Story, Soldiers | Comments(40)
This video came out a month ago,  and the U.S.  Army is investigating.  Apparently they have been pushed hard by PETA.  The man with the bat appears to be a local Afghan,  not a member of the U.S. Armed Forces.  Given the recent controversy of US Marines urinating on Taliban corpses,  the military brass is [...]
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Obama: Prosecute the Marines, But Grant Amnesty to the Taliban?!

Posted by Peter Schweizer Jan 16th 2012 at 12:46 pm in Afghanistan, Featured Story, Humanitarian, Islam, Islamic extremism, Justice/Legal, Soldiers, human rights | Comments(86)
For U.S. Marines to urinate on the dead is a dishonorable thing to do. And to tape it? Dishonorable and stupid. But to now go on a witch hunt over the matter is ridiculous. The Marines should be disciplined for what they did, but to characterize this as a crime and to treat them as [...]
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America Sinks in Economic Freedom Rankings: Now Surpassed by Australia, Canada, New Zealand

Posted by Peter Schweizer Jan 14th 2012 at 7:47 am in Communism, Economy, Europe, Obama, human rights | Comments(39)
If you think back to the last half century, the assumption has always been that the United States is much more of a free market economy than many other advanced industrialized countries. The Canadians? Well,  they have that state-run health care system. And the Aussies? Well, they are just like the Europeans. And tiny New [...]
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Coming Next: Water Drones

Posted by Peter Schweizer Jan 13th 2012 at 11:52 am in Military Technology, Strategy, Weapons | Comments(54)
The US Navy’s Office of Naval Research in December announced that it was awarding several research contracts (unnamed) to develop a “Large Displacement Unmanned Undersea Vehicle” (LDUUV). These are large underwater drones, which could be used for monitoring, intelligence, or attacks against enemy targets. The project was the dream of now-retired Admiral Gary Roughead, who [...]
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Marine Video: Why Doesn’t The Media Blame It On Obama?

Posted by Peter Schweizer Jan 12th 2012 at 10:00 am in Afghanistan, Media Criticism, Obama, Politics | Comments(60)
Remember half a decade ago,  when the media was pushing story after story about “atrocities” and “torture” in Iraq?  There were real acts of cowardly and dishonorable behavior by soldiers in some instances,  and they were prosecuted for it.  But do you remember the media analysis of why they were occuring?  Somehow,  it was a [...]
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