Strictly Right

This week I have written a lot about defense spending, and the need to ensure that the United States maintains the world’s premier fighting forces. “If we know anything, it is that weakness is provocative,” as Secretary Rumsfeld said. President Obama has demonstrated the validity this axiom time and again. Earlier this week, it was [...]

Tags: Barack Obama, California Mystery Missile, China, Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, Iran, Jimmy Carter, Korean War, Mystery Missile, North Korea, South Korea

From the time Allied boots set foot in Afghanistan, pundits have been eager to draw comparisons between the wars ins Afghanistan and Vietnam. The most common refrain is that just like Vietnam, Afghanistan is an unwinnable war. In reality, that is the wrong conclusion. In fact, Vietnam was absolutely a winnable war, and in fact [...]

Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Curtis Lemay, David Petraeus, Douglas MacArthur, John Kennedy, Korean War, Lyndon Johnson, Stanley McChrystal, Vietnam War, War on Terror