Tag: Russia

President Obama has been pushing the U.S. Senate to ratify the START nuclear arms pact with Russia. Now comes Defense Secretary Robert Gates with an ominous warning: failure to sign the agreement might disrupt Russia’s cooperation in areas such as

The Obama administration’s abandonment of their predecessor’s European missile defense arrangements was meant to gain something from Russia in terms of assistance on Iran and other desired areas of cooperation. That didn’t work out. Now, that action is having more

The fallout from the administration’s two high-profile Asia trips has come starkly into focus: Where President Obama failed with South Korea, Russia succeeded; and Hillary Clinton’s choice of politician to support in Malaysia has strong ties to the Muslim Brotherhood

As the Obama administration doubles down on its effort to force the U.S. Senate to rubber-stamp the New START Treaty during the lame duck session, its bid took two more body blows today: First, ten senators-elect led by Roy Blunt

The past 48 hours have yielded some dramatic setbacks for President Obama in his drive to force the lame-duck Senate to rubber-stamp the New START arms control treaty with Russia. Yet, despite clear signals that this will not – and

The map above shows the forty-seven nations that make up the membership of the Council of Europe. The Council of Europe was founded in 1949 with ten original members, and added most of the rest of Western Europe over the

Many analysts continue to concentrate on individual terrorists and their network of mosques from which they emerge. Many assume they represent the most serious security threats facing the country–often termed “Al Qaeda and its affiliates.” But the Administration’s recent Asian

There is a necessary and comforting focus on cutting government spending here in DC. The orgy of excess over the past two years has caused that and obviously the biggest budgets attract the most attention. The Defense Department has a

With his remarks in Jakarta, Indonesia, President Obama made history once again. Sadly, it’s a most unenviable title. I believe he is the most anti-Israel President in U.S. history. In going to Jakarta, Indonesia, to launch his latest attack, he

One of Obama’s moves early on that gave me some hope he was not a complete muppet on foreign policy, was keeping Gates on as Sec Def. That hope changed into disgust as it became apparent that all the Obama

Sen. John McCain on Friday said that Islamist terrorism emanating from Afghanistan and Pakistan is the main obstacle to South Asian peace and the U.S.-India relationship, and that a precipitate withdrawal from Afghanistan would “deepen India’s reliance on Russia and

Defense News reported Nov. 4th that “Obama Wants Current Senate To Pass Russia Treaty.” New START strikes a foreign policy pose without accomplishing a significant strategic purpose. Although President Obama wishes to push the draft treaty through the lame-duck Senate

President Obama may have tried to give the impression that he understands the message America sent him on Tuesday, but you wouldn’t know it from his comments just hours ago about the START treaty. Many serious questions have been raised

A very dramatic scene is underway in the obscure republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, a province in southern Russia, part of the North Caucasus. On October 20, gun fighting broke out between rebel forces and police, in which people on both sides

This week, fifty of our nuclear armed Minuteman missiles in Wyoming momentarily lost connectivity to one of the many command capsules at the F.E. Warren USAF base. The 1960’s computers in question got out of time-sharing sequence as they routinely

When Russian census taker Anastasia Fedotova came to the door of President Dmitry Medvedev, the president noticed the scarf the census takers were given. “What else do they give you,” Medvedev asked. “A flashlight and a whistle,” Fedotova responded. “Why

This is the latest installment in a weekly series of exclusive interviews with Dr. Paul Kengor, professor of political science at Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania, who has just released a major book revealing how communists, from Moscow

Russians were shocked on Tuesday morning by the news of a successful large-scale terrorist attack on Chechnya’s very well protected Parliament building in Grozny. Chechnya (Discovery Corp) The attack began when vehicles containing rebel militants made their way into parliamentary

There is an effort underway to change America’s preeminent position as the world’s sole super power. We never really aimed for that role, but so be it. The parties who want to have a post-American power structure are both external

After a clash in the disputed East China Sea last month between China and Japan, China initiated a boycott of Japanese goods and held up exports of material needed by Japanese electronics manufacturers. Weeks later, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev planned

The latest efforts to achieve peace between Israel and the Palestinians are hanging by a thread, which should be no surprise. Perhaps, based on the 2000 Camp David peace talks, sponsored by President Clinton, when the Palestinians walked away, essentially,

(See Part 1 and Part 2.) The history of SOF is replete with such examples (re. Hind helo’s) – too many to mention. Brown himself has received numerous awards and citations for his contributions by governments far and wide. His