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Original Article / James Jay Carafano The U.S. Armed Forces are in quite a battle these days. They’re caught between a president determined to make substantial cuts in defense investments and a Congress increasingly intolerant with wasteful spending. All this while following a Rube Goldberg set of legislative mandates and having a nation to defend. …
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view original / blogs.hbr.org/ by SCOTT ANTHONY Is there a corporate leader who doesn't extol the virtues of innovation these days? Yet if innovation is so important, why do so many companies have so much trouble with it? The reflexive response is that it is a human capital problem — that is, that most people just don't have …
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Washington Post April 24, 2012 Pg. 17 Fine Print The United States needs a consistent position on nonproliferation if its efforts to lower the nuclear weapons threat is to be taken seriously. The past two weeks prove the point. On Thursday, India successfully tested what it called its first intercontinental ballistic missile, the Agni V. …
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New York Times April 24, 2012 By Eric Schmitt WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is revamping its spy operations to focus on high-priority targets like Iran and China in a reorganization that reflects a shift away from the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan that have dominated America’s security landscape for the past decade. Under the …
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Washington Post April 23, 2012 Pg. 13 A New START treaty reestablishing the process of nuclear arms control has recently taken effect. Combined with reductions in the U.S. defense budget, this will bring the number of nuclear weapons in the United States to the lowest overall level since the 1950s. The Obama administration is said …
Boston Globe April 23, 2012 Pg. 3 BEIJING - China and Russia launched joint naval exercises Sunday that highlight warming ties between their militaries and growing cooperation in international affairs. Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said the six days of drills feature simulated antiaircraft, antisubmarine, and search-and-rescue operations, including electronic countermeasures and other sensitive technologies. Retired …
by Max Fisher, theatlantic.com April 19th 2012 4:05 PM A new poll shows that Americans today are more afraid of Iran than they were of the USSR in 1985, a peak of the Cold War. In November 1985, CNN commissioned a poll asking Americans to gauge the Soviet Union's threat to the U.S. It's hard …
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New York Times April 22, 2012 Pg. SR11 DOES America need an Arab Spring? That was the question on my mind when I called Frank Fukuyama, the Stanford professor and author of “The End of History and the Last Man.” Fukuyama has been working on a two-volume opus called “The Origins of Political Order,” and …
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Los Angeles Times April 22, 2012 Pg. 26 President Obama has called a halt to the decade-long rise in defense spending that began after Sept. 11, and has proposed shrinking the Army and Marine Corps by about 14%. Congressional Republicans (not to mention Mitt Romney) say that would be disastrous and that it could jeopardize …
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Christian Science Monitor (csmonitor.com) April 20, 2012 Missiles have been prominent in the news lately, with India's successful test, North Korea's failed one, and much talk of missile defense systems in Europe and the Persian Gulf. Here are six noteworthy missile-technology advances – three offensive, three defensive – revealed in recent weeks. 1. India's Agni-V …
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