Peter Brookes is a senior fellow for national security affairs at the Heritage Foundation. He’s also a member of the congressional US-China Commission and a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University. Previously, he served as a deputy assistant secretary of defense, Capitol Hill staffer, CIA officer, State Department official and naval officer. He hails from the Hudson Valley.
If you were troubled by President Obama's "Wow Bow" in Japan, you won't be any happier with the "kowtow" during his just-concluded trip to the People's Republic of China. In the latest chapter of Team Obama's at...
November 19, 2209 12:00 AM
Asked why he robbed more than 100 banks, the legendary Willie Sutton supposedly replied: “Go where the money is . . . and go there often.” In the wake of the debt-ceiling deal, the worry now is that Congress and...
August 04, 2011 12:00 AMAfter inking the scary new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty and pushing to revive the once-dead Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the Obama administration is acting like it belongs in a foreign-policy horror flick: "Stop...
July 12, 2011 12:00 AM
President Obama's "lead by example" nuclear-nonproliferation policy of strategic-weapons cuts and treaties (such as the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with Russia) isn't having the desired effect. In fact, the...
June 29, 2011 12:00 AM
I feel the need . . . the need for speed.-- Maverick, "Top Gun" (1986) You can't call yourself really alive if the flying scenes in "Top Gun" don't put you on the edge of your seat, pulse racing, goose bumps forming,...
June 13, 2011 12:00 AMSo now President "Who Needs Nukes?" Obama wants to re-engage the Senate on the once-rejected 1996 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. It's unclear why the administration believes a re-heated version of the treaty (which...
June 09, 2011 12:00 AM
OK, the incredible details of the operation to silence Osama bin Laden are, indeed, irresistible -- but our government's been saying way too much about them, tipping off al Qaeda and clueing in other bad guys. You...
May 10, 2011 12:00 AMAmid the euphoria of Osama bin Laden's well-deserved de mise is the gut feeling Pakistan isn't shooting straight with us in the War on Terror almost 10 years after 9/11. Where -- if at all -- does Washington go...
May 05, 2011 12:00 AM
The bloody crackdown in Syria is just the lat est sign that Team Obama's "engagement policy" toward the Middle East bad boy hasn't paid off. As President Obama himself might say: It's time for a change. Sure,...
April 27, 2011 12:00 AMNational Security Adviser Tom Donilon this week published an opinion piece on the administra tion's efforts toward global nuclear disarmament -- a presidential priority. OK, nuclear non-proliferation is important,...
April 22, 2011 12:00 AM
Pakistani intelligence officials reportedly swept into CIA headquarters this week with a list of grievances about agency operations in the South Asian state -- even threatening to limit prized Predator drone strikes on...
April 13, 2011 12:00 AMWith the turmoil in North Africa and the Middle East obsessing world leaders and the public, Iran has used the distraction to up its involvement in Afghanistan a notch. News broke this week that NATO forces last...
March 11, 2011 12:00 AMIt would be easier to forgive the Obama administration's lackluster handling of the political crisis in Egypt over the last couple of weeks if things were going our way elsewhere in the Middle East. Unfortunately, they...
February 15, 2011 12:00 AMThere's lots of speculation going on over the fast-breaking events in Egypt -- but Director of National Intelligence James Clapper's claim yesterday on Capitol Hill that the Muslim Brotherhood is "largely secular" and...
February 11, 2011 12:00 AM
It's not clear who authorized the test flight of China's new J-20 "stealth" fighter during Defense Secretary Robert Gates' visit to Beijing this week, but the message was pretty clear: China has arrived -- and we...
January 14, 2011 12:00 AM
It's time to get over the no tion that China is going to play a strong, pivotal role in handling its belligerent nuclear neighbor, North Korea. Beijing is certainly capable of playing tough with Pyongyang, but it...
December 01, 2010 12:00 AM
Sunday, a new nuclear-weapons program; yesterday, an unprovoked and deadly attack on a neighbor: When nutty North Korea makes the headlines, you can bet it's not good news. Over the weekend, word broke that the...
November 24, 2010 12:00 AMThe White House's efforts to ram the flawed US-Russia Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty -- aka New START -- through the Senate during Congress' lame-duck session are increasingly disingenuous -- and desperate. Team...
November 23, 2010 12:00 AMThe impending historic shift in power on Capitol Hill, especially in the House, guarantees challenges not only to President Obama's domestic policies, but on national-security matters, too. The re-invigorated...
November 08, 2010 12:00 AM
If something isn't done to prevent it, we'll likely be facing an emerging nuclear threat from President Hugo Chavez's Venezuela sometime in the next 10 years. He vows that "nothing will stop us" from bringing...
October 29, 2010 12:00 AMOver the weekend, North Korea promised a "1,000- fold" rise in its military strength, The Associated Press reported. And Pyongyang may be keeping its word. For example, the Institute for Science and...
October 19, 2010 12:00 AM
Last week in New York, Ira nian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the press that if the United States attacked Iran over its nuclear program it would face war like it had never seen. Bluster? Maybe, but it ain't...
September 27, 2010 12:00 AMDiscussion of the US-Russia Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty -- a k a New START -- has so far pretty much skipped one very important consideration: China. In the run-up to last week's committee vote to send the...
September 20, 2010 12:00 AM
So, nearly a decade after the horrors of the 9/11 at tacks, where do we stand in our War on Terror? It's a bit of a mixed picture: There's some good, some bad and some ugly in our ongoing fight with violent...
September 11, 2010 12:00 AM
The Pentagon's just-released report to Congress on Chinese military power is alarming for two reasons: First, Beijing's military buildup continues; second, the modernization of our armed forces may come up short of...
August 23, 2010 12:00 AMJust when you thought that bumbling Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale had retired for good, the FBI uncovers an 11-person, deep-cover Russian spy ring stretching from Boston to Washington. But while the would-be...
June 30, 2010 12:00 AM
The Obama administration is urging the Senate to ratify the US-Russia Strate gic Arms Reduction Treaty -- but it won't release the negotiating record for "New START" to senators who've asked for it. Denying the...
June 28, 2010 12:00 AMIt turns out the Russians got a great deal on the new Strategic Arms Reduc tion Treaty, which President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed in Prague last month. At our expense, of course. The...
May 14, 2010 12:00 AM
The South Korean government is now reporting that a large undersea explosion (e.g., a torpedo) is likely responsible for sinking its warship Cheonan in the Yellow Sea in March, with the loss of more than 40 souls....
April 28, 2010 12:00 AM
On Tuesday, the Obama admin istration released its new nu clear strategy; today, the prez will ink a new nuke treaty with the Russians in Prague. Next week, he'll host an all-world atomic affair in Washington. It's a...
April 08, 2010 12:00 AM
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