National Security
Post-9/11 Americana
The 9/11 anniversary obliges us to consider the changes that have been thrust upon us since that terrible Tuesday morning. Most pixels, ink, and airtime are being devoted to how 9/11 and its consequences affected our greatest city, our politics and ...
A World Worth Fighting For: The Power and Promise of the Atlantic Charter at 70
Originally published in The American Legion MagazineDate: August 2011 Winston Churchill called it “a great hour to live.” Franklin Roosevelt described it as a summertime “cruise,” while the White House told the press ...
Whiter the Obama of Hope
Origninally published in The Mark News, Aug 10, 2011“What happened to hope?” That’s the question many of President Barack Obama’s supporters are asking three years after a campaign that criticized “wars of ...
An Old Soldier Fades Away
An Old Soldier Fades AwayPublication: The Mark NewsJuly 1, 2011By Alan W. Dowd As Robert Gates hands off the reins at the Pentagon to Leon Panetta, the American people and their allies in Canada, Europe and Asia should take comfort in ...
Broader Lessons of the Bin Laden Strike
Taking stock of the AfPak theater in the aftermath of Osama bin Laden
A Disappointing National Security Strategy
Originaly published in The Mark News “The United States of America faces a broad and complex array of challenges to our national security.” So begins the Obama administration’s National Security Strategy (NSS), an ...
Look Who's Leading NATO
Originally published in The Mark NewsJune 1, 2011 Whatever one’s opinion of the war in Libya, one thing is beyond debate: French president Nicolas Sarkozy is leading it. Every step of the way, from the decision to go into Libya in ...
From 9/11 to 5/1
A version of this article was first published in FrontPage Magazine, May 3, 2011 The elimination of bin Laden—and not by some faceless drone or double-dealing “ally,” but by the force and skill of American arms striking at ...
Problems with Time-Limted War
Originally published in The New Brunswick Times & Transcript, April 19, 2011by Alan W. Dowd Reasonable people can disagree about the merits of intervening in Libya. But given that not intervening would likely have allowed Moammar Qaddafi to ...
Time is Running out in Libya
Originally published in The Mark News The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), in general, and the Obama administration, in particular, deserve credit for agreeing to enforce UN Security Council Resolution 1973 in Libya. Moammar Gadhafi ...
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