Tag Archives: Robert Gates

Julia Pollak

The Only Way to Save Defense: Defeat Obama in 2012

The U.S. Armed Services are preparing to absorb billions of dollars in budget cuts over the next decade, over and above sweeping cuts that have already taken effect, and a large number of defense reforms currently under way. They are nevertheless holding out hope that they might be able to avoid the worst–the additional $492 [...]
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Brad Fregger

Chinese World Domination: Increasing Their Military Capability

This is the second article that expands on my original Big Peace article, “The Growing Potential of Chinese World Domination.” The first article, on defeating the U.S. economically, can be found here. However, as a country becomes more and more successful, invasion by other nations becomes more and more likely. The leaders of China are not [...]
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Caroline  Glick

American Jews and the Liberal Art of Demonization

US election season is clearly upon us as US President Barack Obama has moved into full campaign mode. Part and parcel of that mode is a new bid to woo Jewish voters and donors upset by Obama’s hostility to Israel back in the Democratic Party’s fold. To undertake this task, the White [...]
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Frank Gaffney

The Debt Ceiling Deal: Doing in Defense

At this writing, many details of the debt ceiling deal wrangled out over the weekend remain fuzzy.  One thing is clear, unfortunately:  The national security of the United States is going to suffer greatly. That will be so no matter how much is taken out of the defense budget [...]
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Sun Tzu

Obama’s Pentagon Personnel Chief Slammed For Waste And Abuse

From the Marine Corps Times: “At least six senior Pentagon staff members, including federal civilian employees, senior executives, and uniformed officers, have filed a complaint with the Defense Department Inspector General against the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, retired Marine Maj. Gen. Clifford Stanley. The complaint, filed anonymously July 11, accuses Stanley of fraud, waste and [...]
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Caroline  Glick

After Gates’ Departure: the Increasing Radicalization of Obama’s Foreign Policy

Outgoing US Defense Secretary Robert Gates is worried about the shape of things to come in US foreign policy. In an interview with Newsweek over the weekend, Gates sounded the warning bells. In Gates’ words, “I’ve spent my entire adult life with the United States as a superpower, and one that had [...]
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Chuck DeVore

Why The US Consistently Fails To Predict Threats

The outgoing Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, made a remarkable admission during a speech to the American Enterprise Institute three weeks ago that should have received more attention.  In his speech, the SecDef properly observed that the U.S. has consistently failed to predict threats.  He then pointed to Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese terrorist group responsible [...]
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John J.  Xenakis

Defense Sec’y Robert Gates Repudiates The Truman Doctrine

At a Nato meeting in Brussels on Friday, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said, in effect, that the Truman Doctrine that’s guided American foreign policy since it was formulated by President Harry Truman in 1947 has ended. President Harry Truman, March 12, 1947, speaking to Congress Gates’ statement was prompted by the disastrous performance of Nato [...]
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Peter Schweizer

Bravo! US Reporter Bluntly Asks Chinese General Questions About Military And Chinese Intentions

Foreign Policy writer and blogger Josh Rogin was respectful but direct in challenging the rosy scenario that the United States and China have been trying to create concerning the U.S.-Chinese strategic dance in the Pacific.  The scene was the International Institute for Strategic Studies annual Shangri-La Security Dialogue in Singapore.   His honest questioning led [...]
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John J.  Xenakis

5-Jun-11 World View — Terrorist Ilyas Kashmiri Killed

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Generational Dynamics briefing at Fort Devens On Saturday, I gave a 90-minute briefing at Fort Devens to a unit of about 40 people, US Army and Navy analysts and planners for the US Army European Command (EUCOM) J-3 Operations center, normally headquartered in Stuttgart. I was invited to give the [...]
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