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Thursday, July 10, 2008 01:16:28 PM
July 10, 2008 --IT'S not unusual for a state to conduct military exercises, but Iran had a lot more in mind when it literally went ballistic yesterday - launching nine medium- and long-range missiles during its "Great Prophet" war games. Tuesday, July 08, 2008 03:33:22 PM
New intelligence continues to blast away like a sledgehammer at Iran’s rocklike insistence that its nuclear program is purely peaceful and not a nuclear weapons effort as many strongly believe. Friday, June 27, 2008 08:57:22 AM
June 27, 2008 --NORTH Korea gave the world some good news this week - finally handing over a declaration about its nuclear program and promising to blow up the cooling tower at its Yongbyon nuclear facility. But don't break out the best bubbly just yet. Friday, May 02, 2008 11:00:00 AM
May 1, 2008 -- CHECK this: After cutting the number of active aircraft carriers from 12 to 11 last year, the Navy is now requesting Congress' permission to go down from 11 flattops to 10 for the years 2012 to 2015. Tuesday, April 22, 2008 10:00:00 AM
WHILE the world seems ablaze with problems, no area or issue, including terrorism, will shape the course of the 21st century for good - or bad - more than the region across the Pacific Ocean: East Asia. Monday, April 14, 2008 03:00:00 PM
April 13, 2008 -- New information continues to blast away at last November's controversial National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on the supposed dormant state of Iran's nuclear weapons program, which the US intelligence community believes ended in 2003. Monday, April 07, 2008 05:54:15 PM
While it was welcomed in some parts of the world - including Washington, London, Paris and Berlin - many other capitals viewed Kosovo's declaration of independence from Serbia in mid-February as nothing if not controversial. Wednesday, December 05, 2007 04:09:15 PM
With President Bush talking just weeks ago of the possibility of World War III if Iran developed a nuclear weapon, the newly-released National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on the Iranian program this week is nothing if not a shocker. Monday, August 21, 2006 02:11:16 PM
August 21, 2006 -- NOTICE anything different about the recent round of diplomatic efforts to resolve Lebanon's latest crisis? Strikingly, Syria was nowhere to be found. Sunday, August 20, 2006 10:09:55 PM
Now that the guns in southern Lebanon have gone silent -- at least for moment -- the real battle for the political hearts and minds of Lebanon begins. Wednesday, August 16, 2006 11:52:46 AM
August 16, 2006 -- IGNORE Israel's and Hezbollah's boastful claims of victory in their bitter, but largely inconclusive war. The real winner of the month-long conflict is neither - it's Iran. Saturday, August 12, 2006 09:08:27 AM
Any U.N. ceasefire agreement aimed at ending the violence between Israel and Hezbollah is worthless unless it leads to the disarming of the terrorist group. Plain and simple. Friday, August 11, 2006 08:51:45 AM
The British busting up of a terrorist plot - one that was within days of blowing up as many as 10 U.S. airliners somewhere over the Atlantic - demonstrates once again that we have two enemies in the War on Terror: terrorists and our own complacency. Monday, July 31, 2006 10:06:35 AM
FIREWORKS started yesterday as the U.N. Security Council met in emergency session to craft a resolution that would - among other issues - deploy a stabilization force to Lebanon to end the fighting between Israel and its terrorist nemesis, Hezbollah. Thursday, July 27, 2006 09:45:59 AM
You don't often get an opportunity to right a terrible wrong. But the Senate has a chance to do just that when it gives the nomination of John Bolton to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations a second look starting today. Thursday, July 20, 2006 11:42:22 AM
While the world focuses on the smoldering conflict in the Middle East, the war’s instigator -- and puppeteer -- Iran must be pretty darn pleased with itself. While Iranian-backed Hezbollah jolts Israeli cities with rockets and Israeli forces ferret out terrorist militants across Lebanon, Iran has suffered nary a nick, verbally or otherwise. Monday, July 17, 2006 01:29:22 PM
"When China wakes, it will shake the world."- Napoleon CHINA'S foot-dragging on getting tough with North Korea and Iran at the U.N. Security Council has been giving the United States and others fits recently - and for good reason. Monday, July 10, 2006 09:12:38 AM
Next weekend's meeting between President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin before the Group of Eight (G-8) summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, will likely mark a new post-Cold War low in U.S.-Russian relations. Thursday, July 06, 2006 02:05:49 PM
DESPITE worldwide calls for restraint, North Korea chose to honor July 4 by going ballistic, launching seven missiles of various ranges into the Sea of Japan. It was a classic moment out of "Fatal Attraction" - a Glenn Close "I will not be ignored!" scream. Wednesday, July 05, 2006 10:59:16 AM
FOR all the worldwide whining and bellyaching about the United States, today - America's 230th birthday - provides an opportune time for them to consider for just a moment what the world might be like without good ol' Uncle Sam. Thursday, June 29, 2006 10:45:25 AM
THE nameless, faceless leakers of classified national- security information aren't heroes, as some would claim. In fact, they're nothing more than spies - veritable "moles," giving "aid and comfort" to our enemies, including al Qaeda. Monday, June 12, 2006 02:05:46 PM
Some see it as a NATO counterweight. Others call it a Club for Dictators - or at least near-dictators. Some consider it an anti-American stalking horse for Chinese and or Russian hegemony, with the potential to become "OPEC with nukes." Thursday, June 08, 2006 11:54:48 AM
June 8, 2006 -- AS Iran mulls a fresh offer of U.S. and European Union incentives to halt its nuclear weapons program, the regime's top leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, this week brandished the oil state's most powerful weapon - disrupting Middle East energy supplies. Monday, June 05, 2006 12:32:12 PM
This weekend's arrest of 17 homegrown al Qaeda wannabes just across the border in Canada is a nightmarish reminder of the horrors that have been - and could be - right here at home again if we don't fully get our counterterrorism act together soon. Friday, June 02, 2006 08:39:42 AM
A recently-released FBI report about the compromising ties between a Chinese-American Mata Hari and her FBI-agent lover is a stark reminder that after terrorism, the greatest threat to our national security at home is espionage. According to the U.S. government, spies from more than 140 (of 191) nations are working overtime in our exceedingly open society to pinch U.S. defense and commercial secrets at a clip not seen since the Cold War ended. Monday, May 22, 2006 03:22:22 PM
The Bush administration's decision last week to normalize diplomatic relations with Libya is - without doubt -- an exercise in big-picture foreign-policy thinking. Tuesday, May 16, 2006 10:14:59 AM
Gen. Michael Hayden is going to get an early Memorial Day BBQ-ing on Thursday. The CIA director-nominee will appear before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and the senators are sure to go ballistic over the National Security Agency's telephone-calling-record database. Monday, May 08, 2006 02:12:29 PM
Today the White House will name Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden, now the principal deputy director of National Intelligence (PDDNI), as the new Central Intelligence Agency director, replacing Porter Goss, who was unceremoniously sacked last Friday. Monday, April 24, 2006 08:57:07 AM
LAST Thursday, Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte, had a chance to appease his growing chorus of critics. He failed. Monday, April 17, 2006 08:57:58 AM
In the world of diplomacy, form is often way more important than substance. Consider Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to Washington this Thursday. |
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