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UNITED STATES: JACKSON MARSTELLER
EMPs: The Next Great Threat to America

Last night at The Republican National Security Debate, hosted on CNN by The Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute, an electromagnetic pulse attack (EMP) was mentioned as one of the most important national security issues that is not discussed often. This is true. Despite the gravity of the threat, the United States remains unprotected from the effects of an EMP...

UNITED STATES: MIKE BROWNFIELD
The Debate over Defense Spending

The U.S. military and America’s national security stands at the brink. This week, a congressional “super committee” was due to develop a plan to reduce the federal deficit by more than $1.2 trillion over the next 10 years...

UNITED STATES: ERICKA ANDERSEN
The Debate Over China

Want to hear something disturbing? China has increased its defense budget by double digits every year for the last 20 years. Just as China seems to be gearing up for some undefined enterprise, the U.S. is winding down its defense budget at a similarly rapid pace...

UNITED STATES: SHANNON O'NEIL, LATINTELLIGENCE.COM
SBInet and Failed Border Technologies

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a detailed report last week that criticizes attempts to patrol the Arizona-Mexico border using high-cost technologies.

VIEWS ON LATIN AMERICA: SHANNON O'NEIL, LATINTELLIGENCE.COM
Measuring the Global Middle Class

As journalists, policymakers, and activists of various stripes and interests focus on the rise of the global middle class, scholars struggle with how exactly to define this category of people worldwide.

UNITED STATES: DR. JAMES CARAFANO
Know Your Enemy: Meet the Haqqani Network

In Vietnam, the United States grasped defeat from the jaws of victory. As documented in Mark Woodruff's "Unheralded Victory: The Defeat of the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army, 1961-1973," the enemy were defeated in battle, the insurgency was crushed, and "Vietnamization" (building out the south's defense forces) was well under way.

US ELECTION: SHANNON O'NEIL, LATINTELLIGENCE.COM
Can the GOP Win the Latino Vote – and Does It Matter?

At last week’s Republican presidential debate a member of the audience provocatively reminded the candidates that not all of the Latinos in the United States are illegal, and then asked them...

WORLD: DR. JAMES CARAFANO
Lessons of Lybia

That indigenous forces backed by Western military power could overthrow an odious unpopular regime backed by a second-rate military ought to come as no surprise. That was, after all, exactly what the Bush Administration did in Afghanistan.

WORLD: EMIL MAINE
Misjudging the Iranian Threat

As the Obama Administration has discovered, containing Iran’s nuclear ambitions and support for terrorism and insurgencies requires more than Washington’s willingness to “extend [its] hand.”

UNITED STATES: MIKE BROWNFIELD
Obama’s Iraq Failure

To hear President Barack Obama describe the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, you’d think it was a long-anticipated political victory, the fruition of a promise he made when campaigning for the White House. But his announcement last week that American troops in Iraq will return by the end of the year is a result of a serious Obama Administration failure that will undermine U.S. security interests in the Middle East.

UNITED STATES: DR. JAMES CARAFANO
Obama’s Middle East: Withdrawal from Iraq

The word is out that all U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Iraq by the end of the year. While every American shares the conviction that we don’t want any U.S. troops stationed in a Middle East country a day longer than they need to be, it is tragic to see a premature exit of U.S. troops that might jeopardize the progress that has been made in Iraq.

WORLD: MIKE BROWNFIELD
The End of Qadhafi

Former Libyan dictator Muammar Qadhafi is dead from wounds he suffered during his capture near his hometown of Sirte, according to Reuters reports...

UNITED STATES: EDWARD WALTON
Are we a bunch of softies?

Is America getting soft? President Obama seems to think so: "The way I think about it is, you know, this is a great, great country that had gotten a little soft and, you know, we didn’t have that same competitive edge that we needed over the last couple of decades. We need to get back on track".

VIEWS ON LATIN AMERICA: SHANNON O'NEIL, LATINTELLIGENCE.COM
Venezuela’s Presidential Race

Today, chances are Hugo Chávez will face off against Henrique Capriles Radonski in the 2012 October presidential elections...

VIEWS ON LATIN AMERICA: SHANNON O'NEIL, LATINTELLIGENCE.COM
Social Networking in Latin America

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee recently released a report penned by Carl Meacham titled “Latin American Governments Need to ‘Friend’ Social Media and Technology,” calling on U.S. policymakers to...

UNITED STATES: RORY COOPER
Heritage to Co-Host Debate with AEI, CNN

The Heritage Foundation will co-host a Republican presidential debate on foreign policy and national security with the American Enterprise Institute and CNN, officials of the two Washington-based think tanks and the worldwide cable news organization announced late tonight.

UNITED STATES: MIKE BROWNFIELD
Obama’s Failure to Confront the Iranian Threat

Yesterday, America learned that Iran conspired to launch a terrorist attack in Washington, D.C., with a planned assassination of the Saudi ambassador and bomb attacks on the Saudi and Israeli embassies.

UNITED STATES: DR. JAMES CARAFANO
United States Thwarts Iranian Terrorist Plot

U.S. authorities announced today that they disrupted an Iranian plan to commit a “significant terrorist act in the United States,” making it the forty-second thwarted terrorist attack against the homeland.

UNITED STATES: DR. RAY WALSER
Hugo Chavez, Occupy Wall Street, and Double Standards

Hugo Chavez hates Wall Street, ground zero for “savage capitalism.” Daily he dreams of bear markets bringing the U.S. economy crashing down. He certainly likes the Occupy Wall Street movement. It is tailor-made for advancing Chavez-style “participatory democracy.” Little wonder he has dispatched his star propagandist to New York...

UNITED STATES: EDWIN J. FEULNER
Steve Jobs and American Exceptionalism

Steve Jobs, who died yesterday at the too-young age of 56, was a living refutation of all what liberals constantly tell us about our country — that we’re falling behind others and live now in a “post-American world,” as one of Barack Obama’s favorite books puts it in its title.

UNITED STATES: ERICKA ANDERSEN
The Solyndra Legacies

The Obama Administration has been knee-deep in scandal after green energy “model” Solyndra went bankrupt less than two years after receiving a $500 million loan guarantee from the federal government. Now, they are up against another controversy.

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