We wish all a Happy New Year in 2021, as we complete this Holiday Season of what has been a very challenging year, with COVID-19 that began in China year ago and has taken so many lives. The continuing “social distancing” that overlayed the rigors of a national election still accompanies unsettled but needed outcomes.… Read Full Story
“It is way past time to stop admiring this problem, and actually begin to do something concrete to protect our vulnerable electrical grid, control systems, and the ever-increasing array of electronic devices our society has become dependent upon.” ~ Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Click… Read Full Story
On November 17, 2020, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) conducted a potentially very consequential test of the Navy’s Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) capability — hopefully indicating a major step toward realizing this vision of the George H.W. Bush administration and 1995 Heritage Foundation’s Team B. Read Full Story
We should learn from the hardships and associated lessons-learned by the Pilgrims, which provide the foundation of America’s free-market system — so that we don’t repeat their initial missteps. We should recommit ourselves to keeping this land free and prosperous for those who follow us. Read Full Story
We should learn from the hardships and associated lessons-learned by the Pilgrims, which provide the foundation of America’s free-market system — so that we don’t repeat their initial missteps. We should recommit ourselves to keeping this land free and prosperous for those who follow us. Read Full Story
Today, we celebrate the 245th birthday of the Marines: The Few, the Proud! And tomorrow, we honor all who have served, in all branches of our military forces. Read Full Story
For the first time in 76 years, a second October world-wide full moon occurred on Halloween — All Hallows Eve; this time essentially on the eve of today’s national election. That 1944 “Blue Moon” (the second such full moon in a single month) occurred in the year that included D-Day (June 6, 1944), before Donald Trump was born, while Joe Biden was an infant and our “greatest generation” was winning World War II. Read Full Story
North Korea continues to produce nuclear material and, between May 2019 and late March 2020, conducted multiple short-range ballistic missile tests in violation of United Nations Security Council prohibitions. And Kim Jong Un rolled out a new major intercontinental-range ballistic missile (ICBM) during an October 10, 2020 nighttime parade in Pyongyang. Read Full Story
Retired Army General Edward C. Meyer, former Army Chief of Staff (1979-83), died last week in Arlington, Virginia at the age of 91. I understand his prep-school colleagues called him “Shy,” a nickname that stuck; but he was anything but shy. Read Full Story
“Gorbachev said he could not do it. If they could agree to ban research in space, he would sign in two minutes. They should add to the text ‘The testing in space of all space components of missile defense is prohibited, except research and testing conducting in laboratories’ . . .” Authoritative Memcon from Reykjavik Summit, October 12, 1986 Read Full Story
We will be adding key policy briefs as we progress.