Pen and Sword

Sorry to open with a Jeff Huber-ism, but this is another one that can't be repeated often enough: if the Bush administration put as much...

It is a senseless policy, apparently meant to intimidate Russia, but why? For the sake of perpetuating international tension so as to streng...

When young Mr. Bush told Vladimir Putin in June 2007 that "The Cold War is over," we couldn't have gotten more surefire confi...

On Friday August 15 the Bush administration sent Condoleezza Rice to meet with Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili as a "show of U.S...

Vladimir Putin has gone from being Russia's president to being Russia's Dick Cheney. As Prime Minister, he still has all the real p...

Defense Secretary Robert Gates wants to spend $20 billion to double the size of Afghanistan's army as part of a program designed to bri...

Every week I read out of the way, oddly related stories that remind me what an abject barbecue republic America has become under young Mr. B...

You probably already knew this, but sometimes it's nice to get affirmation that yeah, you were right. A recently released study by the...

There are days when Secretary of Defense Robert Gates makes you glad there's a guy in that office who's at least trying to keep Dic...

The Bush administration and its stepchild John McCain have opted for a bold new strategy to counter the overwhelming success of Barack Obama...