Proposed Pentagon Cuts Part Of Obama’s Re-Election Platform: Less For Defense, No Entitlements Cuts – As For US Security: We Take Our Chances By Paolo von Schirach January 6, 2012 WASHINGTON – So what is it going to be? Do...
Republican TV Debates About National Security Are Just Silly Posturing – Huntsman Is The Only Sensible Candidate Big words about bombing Iran and militarizing the border with Mexico. But nothing about the US end game in Afghanistan or the threat of an unstable Iraq. Sound bite TV political debates are a poor way to have a national conversation By Paolo von Schirach November 24, 2011 WASHINGTON – The Republicans fighting for the GOP presidential nomination want...
Secretary Gates and Admiral Mullen Spoke Candidly About Broken NATO and Damaged Relation With Pakistan – But No Ripple Effects, As They Were Both About To Retire – Yet Issues Publicly Raised Are Huge – When Will We Debate Them? By Paolo von Schirach October 1, 2011 WASHINGTON– We have a new “rule” in Washington: if you...
The Revolution in Egypt Got Coverage – The Dogged Syrians Who Keep Protesting Against a Worse Dictator, With More Than 1300 Killed, Get Little Attention – Yet their Bravery is Immense By Paolo von Schirach July 16, 2011 WASHINGTON– Why is it that the Cairo Tahrir Square protests...
No Common Ground Between Obama And The Republicans on Debt, Spending and Taxes Expect a heated 2012 campaign. But this battle will not solve anything, as America is confused and divided on taxes and spending By Paolo von Schirach July 15, 2011 WASHINGTON – Watching President Obama today during another press conference...
Robert Gates Retires as The Last Defense Secretary of a Powerful America – The Erosion of the US Economy Will Cause Cuts in Defense and a Reduced US International Role By Paolo von Schirach June 28, 2011 WASHINGTON– Robert Gates is about to retire as Secretary of...
Troops Withdrawal From Afghanistan Politically Inconsequential – Bad Economy Really Hurts Obama, Polls Indicate – Yet Republicans Message Not Inspiring By Paolo von Schirach June 22, 2011 WASHINGTON– President Obama just announced the end of the surge...
Departing Secretary of Defense Robert Gates To Europeans in NATO: Shape Up, Commit Real Forces to Missions, Such as Libya, Or US Will Abandon This Alliance By Paolo von Schirach June 10, 2011 WASHINGTON– NATO is evolving into a two tier arrangement in...
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Questions Value of US Aid to Afghanistan – Chairman John Kerry Says Committment Too Costly For US By Paolo von Schirach June 8, 2011 WASHINGTON – At his Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing...
Bin Laden Operation Shows How to Conduct Anti-Terrorism against al Qaeda: Intelligence and Navy SEAL Units – US Military Occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq Simply not the Right Tool by Paolo von Schirach May 4, 2011 WASHINGTON– I have already said that killing Osama bin Laden...