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• S.O.S.: Americans Foresee U.S. Military Decline Ahead

  Posted March 2nd, 2010 at 3:00pm in Protect America with 5 comments

  A recent Gallup poll shows that Americans see the U.S. as the world’s top military power now but doubt whether this will be true in 20 years. Only about a third of Americans believe the U.S. will still be ranked first militarily in 2029. Americans are intuitively smart, and they have taken note of a disturbing [...] More

• Defending Freedom In A Second-Hand Car

  Posted January 28th, 2010 at 9:55am in Ongoing Priorities with 1 comments

  Yesterday, an Army General penned an op-ed about why the Army needs a new combat vehicle. Most Americans would be shocked to learn that many soldiers serving in the U.S. Army today are riding around in vehicles built in the 1980s based on technology from the 1970s. While the rest of us are used to a [...] More

• Budget Wars: Fighting for Defense

  Posted January 27th, 2010 at 4:52pm in Protect America with 2 comments

  In his State of the Union address tonight, President Obama is expected to announce a freeze on federal spending with some notable exceptions including one for defense spending. Today, The Heritage Foundation releases a chart book examining the state of the U.S. military. Most Americans already know the U.S. military is unmatched throughout the [...] More

• Stop the Presses: Putting Flashy Defense Spending Sound Bites in Context

  Posted January 26th, 2010 at 3:33pm in Protect America with 4 comments

  In a report titled, “Long-Term Implications of the Fiscal Year 2010 Defense Budget,” the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) points out that this year’s Department of Defense (DoD) budget will exceed the real dollar equivalent of the Pentagon’s budget at the time of the defense build-up in the 1980s. Specifically, CBO calculates that this year’s [...] More

• Bin Laden: Can You Hear Me Now?

  Posted January 24th, 2010 at 6:29pm in Protect America with 6 comments

  Days before President Obama plans to present his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress, Osama Bin Laden sent his own message to the American people. According to CNN “A new audio tape allegedly from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden claims responsibility for an attempt to blow up a plane [...] More

• I Robot…Not

  Posted January 24th, 2010 at 12:20pm in Protect America with 8 comments

  It seems every time you pick up a newspaper, the headline proclaims another military program cancelled. First, it was the F-22. Then it was missile defense. The list goes on and on. The reason given seems always the same too…“We don’t need that.” This mantra gets repeated so often, one suspects one of two truisms [...] More

• The Obsessions of Hugo Chavez on Haiti Defy Logic

  Posted January 22nd, 2010 at 9:25am in American Leadership with 21 comments

  Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez is a man consumed by an obsession. That obsession is the United States. The United States wants to assassinate him; steal his oil; invade his country, etc. Hugo Chavez wakes up in the morning obsessing about the Empire, shorthand for the U.S. and beds down at night with the same thoughts. [...] More

• ‘At the Heart of Our Common Defense’

  Posted November 12th, 2009 at 9:58am in First Principles, Protect America with 0 comments

  Heritage constitutional scholar Matthew Spalding has quite a few things to say about Americans’ love of liberty in his book,  “We Still Hold These Truths: Rediscovering Our Principles, Reclaiming Our Future.” Some of the passages stand out all the more this week as the nation again saluted its defenders on Veterans Day, which this year [...] More

• The War in Afghanistan: Taking on the Militant Groups in Pakistan

  Posted August 5th, 2009 at 2:52pm in Protect America with 2 comments

  Pakistan is a crucial state in U.S. efforts to stabilize Afghanistan. Unfortunately, militant groups within Pakistan are currently using the state as an “operational safe haven where [they] can plan local, regional and international terrorist attacks,” hindering the U.S.’s endeavors. Al-Qaeda isn’t doing all the work on its own though. Yes, “al-Qaeda aims to destabilize [...] More

• In the Green Room: Hon. Newt Gingrich

  Posted July 20th, 2009 at 6:39pm in Health Care, Protect America with 10 comments

  Newt Gingrich spoke at Heritage this morning, where the depth of his knowledge on the issues of America’s defense priorities and leadership position in the world was on full display. He warned against falling into a national malaise, both in our leadership and our mindset: We cannot operate in the fantasy that we can be soft [...] More