Woodward Report
National Security
The Growing Air Power Fighter Gap: Implications for U.S. National Security
(Heritage.org) Since World War II, the U.S. military has used air power as a decisive force multiplier to prevail in peacetime and in combat. In fact, "American ground forces have not come under attack from enemy air forces since the Korean War." Usually, the military with the best and most fighter aircraft achieves air superiority...
Terrorist Watch: 23 Plots Foiled Since 9/11
(Heritage.org) Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, 23 terrorist plots against the United States have been foiled. This report updates a November 2007 report from the Heritage Foundation that described 19 plots that had been foiled to date since 9/11. Less than two years later, the U.S. has foiled four more plots aimed at Americans. While some trials have ended in mistrial and charges against some...
Home Grown Jihad - Terrorist Training in America
(Hoover Institution) Despite Iran’s
runaway nuclear program, North
Korea’s atomic assistance to Syria,
and robust ballistic missile production
and testing by Russia and China, a
missile defense system for protecting
the homeland and U.S. interests...
Military Expert James Carafano Ph.D Speaks About the Need for Missile Defense
Australia Understands the China Threat. Does the U.S.?
(The American) The U.S.-Australia military relationship remains strong, but Australia would be justified in questioning whether the United States is taking the China threat as seriously as they are. Monday marked the start of Talisman Saber 2009, a biennial joint military exercise that the United States conducts with Australia, one of its...
Homeland Security Should Deploy Bio-Sensors Now
(Lexington Institute) The recent
outbreaks of swine flu arrived on our
shores without warning. Fortunately,
this biohazard proved less threatening
than first thought. But what would
have happened if this had been an...
US General: Prepare for Terrorist Tactics from North Korea
(Christian Science Monitor) other
insurgent strategies in a ground war.
American forces may have to focus
the counterinsurgency skills they
have gained in Iraq and Afghanistan
on the threat posed by North Korea...
(The American Spectator) NATO has
been with us 60 years. The
organization staged the usual
self-congratulatory anniversary
ceremony last month, with President
Barack Obama in attendance.
Exactly what the organization is...
Does Military Power Keep Us Safe?
(The Globalist) For too long, we have
defined our strength as a nation by
our capacity for waging war.We have
come to believe, erroneously, that
military power keeps us safe, and that
more power will keep us safer.But the
true strength of the United States...
Radical Islam in America and the emerging risk that “homegrown jihad” poses to national security
(Wall Street Journal) A secret Central
Intelligence Agency initiative
terminated by Director Leon Panetta
was an attempt to carry out a 2001
presidential authorization to capture
or kill al Qaeda operatives...
Going 'All In' with North Korea
(National Interest) Throughout the
crisis that began in 2002 over North
Korea's nuclear program, the
dominant assumption among policy
elites in the United States and East
Asia was that Pyongyang was merely
engaging in hard bargaining...
NKorea targest U.S. and S. Korea in Cyber Attacks
(Asia Times) North Korea has caught
American and South Korean officials
completely by surprise with a shocking
cyber-offensive that has broad
implications for the North's drive to
perfect its ability to deliver weapons...
