Is Your Privacy Worth 50 Foiled Terror Plots?
Postal Service Eyes Cuba
Tangherlini As GSA's Mr. Fix-It?
Lew Cleans Up Signature for the Nation's Currency
The Plan to Open More Military Jobs to Women
Should Leaders Ever Lie?
AUTHOR ARCHIVES
Forward Observer: Costs of War
September 27, 2010 In his new book out Monday, Obama's Wars, Bob Woodward quotes President Obama as telling Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, "I'm not spending a trillion dollars" in Afghanistan. But guess what? The United States has already spent or committed a third of that $1 trillion ...
Forward Observer: The True Cost Of Assassinations
September 13, 2010 How ironic it will be if historians blame Barack Obama, a liberal who used to teach constitutional law and became the first black man to be elected president of the United States, for turning our democracy into a police state because he provoked terrorist attacks on our homeland by authorizing ...
Forward Observer: Just Do It
July 26, 2010 What is going on here with the "don't ask, don't tell" law? That law says military superiors cannot ask the men and women serving under them whether they are gay and the gays cannot tell anybody about their sexual orientation. What is really going on is that President Obama, the ...
Forward Observer: Have Guns, Will Travel
July 12, 2010 Is Congress willing to keep financing wars like the ongoing one in Afghanistan in perpetuity? Gen. David Petraeus, Congress' military darling, sounds like he is counting on it. Just read what he said at his June 29 confirmation hearing with no senator bothering to draw him out on the implications ...
Forward Observer: Unmarked Exit
June 21, 2010 "I know how to get in," the late, great Marine Corps Commandant Robert Barrow said as we reviewed explosive conflicts around the world, "but I don't know how to get out without showing the white feather." This one sentence the Marine sage laid on me while I was covering the ...
Forward Observer: Nuclear Time Bomb
June 7, 2010 Standing up like a red lighthouse of warning above the otherwise murky prose in President Obama's new National Security Strategy document is this statement: "The American people face no greater or more urgent danger than a terrorist attack with a nuclear weapon." Obama himself or somebody on his White House ...
Forward Observer: Gates' Swan Song?
May 17, 2010 In pleading for sanity in providing for "the common defense," as the Constitution puts it, Defense Secretary Roberts Gates sounds to me like a man who (1) plans to announce his resignation from Fort Fumble right after the midterm elections and leave office by the end of this year; (2) ...
Forward Observer: Rational Defense
April 19, 2010 Even Ripley of "Believe It Or Not" fame would not believe it. But the United States as it slides further down the deficit gulch is spending more than $1 trillion a year on national defense despite fighting only two little wars against enemies with no ships, warplanes or tanks. Yes, ...
Forward Observer: Kill The F-35?
March 22, 2010 A fully certified expert on warplanes and their weapons who has filled top Pentagon jobs in both Democratic and Republican administrations would order the Air Force and Navy to modernize their shrinking and aging air arms with F-16 fighter bombers and F-18 Es and Fs, respectively, rather than spend additional ...
Forward Observer: QDR is a Quite Disappointing Report
March 8, 2010 President Obama's big thinkers fussed from February 2009 to January 2010 over what to put in this year's sweeping, congressionally mandated review of future defense strategy that would justify what the Pentagon was doing and might do in the future if Congress voted it enough money. The formal name of ...
