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The U.S. Needs a New Foreign Policy Agenda for 2016 (Part Two of Four)

In our first installment on the need to lay out a new foreign policy agenda for the 2016 presidential race, we described how the world has become a more dangerous place. We explained that while our...

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Expect Bitter Fruits From Obama's Half-Hearted War on Terror

President Obama doesn't get a lot of praise at Shadow Government; after all, our job as the loyal opposition is to critique his administration's foreign policy. Now that he has launched his own war on...

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Ebola: Part II

In light of his discomfort or even resentment of situations where he is compelled to assert American power by virtue of our unique capabilities or the failures of others, President Obama's decision to...

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Should Senior Military Officers Resign in Protest if Obama Disregards Their...

Should senior military officers resign if the president disregards their advice and orders them to execute assignments that, in their judgment, are ill-defined, inadequately resourced, or otherwise...

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The United States Needs A New Foreign Policy Agenda for 2016 (Part Three of...

In our firsttwo installments in this series on a foreign policy agenda for the 2016 presidential election, we described how threats to American security have grown over the past few years, and how...

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Obama’s Staff is Not the Problem

There have been a great many stories over the last few weeks about the state of Barack Obama's presidency. His poll numbers are terrible, his party's candidates are running away from him, and those...

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How to Know if We're Winning Against the Islamic State

Are we winning or losing Operation Inherent Resolve, the name given the new war against the Islamic State? This is not a gotcha question designed to embarrass the Obama administration, though it is a...

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The U.S. Needs a New Foreign Policy Agenda for 2016 (Part Four)

In our threepreviousinstallments we discussed how President Obama's six year experiment in retrenching American power has failed. It has created more global disorder, magnified threats to American...

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A View of Ukraine's Elections From Donetsk

The people of Ukraine went to the polls on Oct. 26 and voted overwhelmingly to continue the process launched by the Maidan movement. The results could fairly be interpreted as an overwhelming...

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The View From the White House After a Shellacking

I think I have a sense of how some in the White House are feeling today. I remember well what it was like to be working for an administration that had just received a thumping in a midterm election....

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How to Tell if Tehran Is Lying About Its Nuclear Ambitions

How to counter Iran's bold cheating on its nuclear commitments? Publicize and act on revelations of mendacity alleged by the Iranian opposition group with a track record of valid revelations -- the...

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How Did Chuck Hagel End Up as the White House's Scapegoat?

The news that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is stepping down has been foreshadowed for weeks, so it does not qualify as a shock. But neither does it qualify as an obvious and logical next move for an...

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A Bad Deal With Iran in the Nuclear Talks Could Destabilize the Middle East

"In the case of Iran getting the bomb, I've always assumed that the roughly 200 weapons ... in Pakistan now were rent-a-bombs for Saudi Arabia -- that the moment Saudi Arabia sees that the Iranians...

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What Hagel Got Right

"Scapegoat," the term Peter Feaver employed in reacting to the firing of Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, actually was a goat that the Bible tells us carried the sins of the Israelites with it as it...

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Hagel's Departure Is Bad News for the Asia Rebalance

Peter Feaver is right when he says that Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel's performance would not make the top 10 list of national security woes plaguing this administration. In the "don't do stupid...

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