Providing for the Common Defense
by Peter Huessy Forty-three years ago, on Memorial Day 1971, I was traveling home to Vermont following two years of study at the International Division of Yonsei University in Seoul…
The Emerging Law of the Gun
by Peter Huessy Russian President Vladimir Putin annexes the Crimea in gross violation of international law. What should America do, if anything? There are many different ideas. Some suggest doing…
National Security Fairy Tales: US defense spending vs. the rest of the world
by Peter Huessy “The US spends more money on defense than all the countries in the rest of the world together.” Sound familiar? Years ago, Ben Cohen of Ben and…
Drones: Their Reach and Limits
by Kenneth Bloomquist Executive Summary Drones are exceptional new military tools that magnify American air supremacy. They are cheaper to build, easier to place in the field, and more accurate…
Missile Defense: projecting strength rather than weakness
by George Landrith Ronald Reagan coined the phrase, “Peace through strength,” but it was not a new idea and it had not been an historically partisan concept. It dates…
U.S. moving backward on missile capability
by Kerri Toloczko One little unfriendly missile, conventional or nuclear, is all it would take to rain death, panic and economic devastation upon the United States. Likely emboldened by…
Federal Spending is the Problem: Defense is Not!
by George Landrith With a long history of federal overspending and the recent explosion of more federal debt, it is obvious that the federal budget must be cut back to…
Ronald Reagan, “We’re on the Frontier of Freedom”
“We’re on the Frontier of Freedom.” by Scott L. Vanatter In the Old Executive Office Building next to the White House Reagan spoke on February 10, 1987 to the Annual…
Reagan’s Address to the Nation on Defense and National Security (“Star Wars”)
Tonight we’re launching an effort which holds the promise of changing the course of human history. by Scott L. Vanatter Just over two years as our president, Ronald Reagan concluded an…
Romney offers powerful alternative to apologizing for America
by Christian Whiton On Columbus Day, Mitt Romney went to the Virginia Military Institute to outline a starkly different foreign policy vision from President Obama’s approach of apologizing for America,…
Ex Dem Radio Talker: Enough of Obama, Supporting Romney
by Craig Silverman I support Mitt Romney for President and Paul Ryan for Vice President. For most of my life, I have been a Democrat, and I very publicly voted…
The Lessons of September 11, 2001
by George Landrith When Ronald Reagan was asked what his plan was for dealing with the communist threat, he responded, “We win, they lose.” Those four words led to an…
Budget Failures Lead to Economic Woes
by George Landrith America’s national debt is dangerously close to $16 trillion. This is a staggering figure. It is impossible to comprehend in concrete terms. But we are rapidly approaching…
In Defense of Defense
by George Landrith For every uninformed liberal criticizing the Pentagon (i.e. “Critics on left hit Pentagon on talk of budget disasters,” Washington Times, Web, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2011), there’s a…
The Lessons of 9/11
by George Landrith When Ronald Reagan was asked what his plan was for dealing with the communist threat, he responded, “We win, they lose.” Those four words led to an…