In the March 21 edition of POLITICO, Center Chairman Lt. Gen. Robert Gard and Council for a Livable World board member Terry Lierman have an op-ed discussing the President’s opportunity to shift US national security strategy in the next four years. The…
Exchange of the Day: Nuclear Weapons Prevent War Edition
REP. ROGERS: Excellent. Thank you. I want to go — I also want to mention I’ve had distributed to all of you a chart that was drafted and put together by Admiral Richard Mies. And it looks at the global fatalities from wars — major wars around the wor…
Politico OpEd: President Obama has the team to modernize national security
Click here to read the full piece from March 20th Politico Despite the partisan gridlock on Capitol Hill, there is at least one area where Americans of all political stripes agree: The United States needs a smarter, more cost-effective national security strategy. The president has assembled just the right team for the job. The next […]
The End of Endless War?
Yesterday, we marked the 10th anniversary of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. In the 10 years since tanks rolled into Baghdad, much has, of course, changed. One particularly notable shift is the American public’s increasing aversion to large-scale military i…
Exchange of the Day: Gen. Kehler and further reductions edition
General Kehler, in June of 2010 as the Senate was considering the New START Treaty, your predecessor, General Chilton, testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that force level under that treaty, meaning 1,550 warheads on 700 delivery vehicles, was, quote, “exactly what is needed today to provide the deterrent,” close quote.
