by Robert G. Gard The Obama administration’s Nuclear Posture Review, conducted by an inter-agency task force and published as an unclassified document in April 2010, included as one of its five strategic objectives a reduction in the role of nuclear weapons in U.S. national security strategy. This declaration was important in countering actions taken by […]
HASC Bill Shows GOP Stuck in Cold War; Reduce SSBN-X, Nukes
by Robert G. Gard and Kingston Reif Originally published in AOL Defense on May 21, 2012. Article summary below; read the full text online. There is broad bipartisan agreement that few national security issues are as critical as how to deal with America’s crippling debt. This means we should spend scarce dollars on the weapons we […]
Abandon Negotiations with North Korea?
By: Gen. Robert Gard An editorial in The Washington Post’s 13 March 2012 edition ridicules the Obama administration for offering 240 metric tons of nutritional assistance to North Korea’s undernourished and hungry population. In return, as part of an announcement on 29 February, Pyongyang agreed to suspend nuclear and missile testing, freeze enrichment of uranium […]
Reason over Relics: Restructuring our Nuclear Force
by Robert G. Gard Lt. General Gard’s op-ed “Reason over Relics: Restructuring our Nuclear Force” was originally published in The Hill’sCongress Blog on February 22, 2012. In To End All Wars, his excellent history of World War I, author Adam Hochschild recounts how passionately some strategists defended the perceived essential role of the horse […]
Missile Defense Intercepts in Space: A problem not solved
by Robert G. Gard The Department of Defense asked the Defense Science Board to study the feasibility of an “early intercept” of ballistic missiles, a capability planned for the fourth and final developmental stage of a missile defense program designed to protect Europe from hostile ballistic missiles. The Defense Science Board is an independent Defense […]
