Does A President’s Cabinet Even Matter Anymore?
The President’s Cabinet is less a Team Of Rivals and more a Team Of Managers.
The President’s Cabinet is less a Team Of Rivals and more a Team Of Managers.
The factors influencing Russian policy in Syria are many, and some of them are quite ancient.
For the first time in 68 years, neither major party candidate for President has served in the military. Does this matter?
Does the Romney campaign know the USSR doesn’t exist anymore? Of course they do, but the language they use still means something.
Mitt Romney called Russia our “number one geopolitical foe.” Is he right?
An attack on Iran is likely to unleash consequences that we are unprepared to deal with.
No, the Obama Administration is not plotting to nationalize the economy in the name of some “national emergency.”
There are all manner of myths that are held by supporters of both parties. Debunking them is not the role for presidential aspirants.
Not surprisingly, Republicans are trying to reverse the automatic cuts to defense spending agreed to in August.
He may be praising Ronald Reagan now, but Newt Gingrich was singing a different tune in the 1980s.
The US Army is returning to a peacetime mindset, which means promotions will cease to be automatic for anyone willing to endure service.
President Obama’s Pentagon is planning for an unlikely war with China rather than the small wars America will inevitably fight.
Rick Santorum’s foreign policy positions are troubling in many respects.
Despite the opposition of the SECDEF and Joint Chiefs, the latter expanded yesterday.
Many people seem to have a rather inappropriate view of their relationship to the President of the United States.
Not surprisingly, the last man to lead the Soviet Union believes we’d be better off if it still existed.
Like many Republicans before him, Newt Gingrich is trying to claim the mantle of Reagan. He is the one least entitled to it.
This time, it was Newt Gingrich who walked away unscathed from a Republican Presidential debate.
Don’t believe the fear mongering about the coming decreases in the growth of defense spending.
Could Newt Gingrich really become the Republican nominee? Stranger things have happened.
I liveblogged and tweeted my instant, mostly snarky, reaction to the CNN foreign policy debate. Here are some more fully formed thoughts.
With the Super Committee dead, 2012 is likely to see a fight over the defense cuts set to take place starting in 2013.
“Democratic” pollsters Pat Caddell and Doug Schoen argue that President Obama should decline to run for re-election.
Why we shouldn’t be surprised that police are using tools of violence against protestors.
Thomas Ricks posts several recommendations for fixing the Army. Most of them are really, really stupid.
The Republican candidates for President have been mostly silent about foreign policy issues. That changes starting tonight.
Herman Cain’s foreign policy consists of little more than deliberate ignorance.
Like clockwork, the arguments for creation of a third party are popping up again.
Debating proposed changes to the US military’s retirement system.
During last night’s debate, Mitt Romney repeated a charge that has become part of the conservative zeitgeist. But is it true?
A new poll shows that Americans are starting to look East.
Does Bachmann think the USSR is on the rise? I expect not, but her defense and fiscal policy skills still need some work.
Examining the impact of current events requires stepping back from them just a little bit.
Joseph Nye explains why China’s “demand the United States address its structural debt problems and ensure the safety of China’s dollar assets” is really just talk.
Watching the news and reading the op-eds makes it clear: America is doomed.
The defense spending lobby is already engaging in fear-mongering over very modest defense cuts.
The cuts to Pentagon spending in the new debt deal are further revealing a split in the GOP over foreign policy and military spending.