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 Presi dent 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 AMDESPITE all the Obama administration's chin- rubbing and hand- wringing about how to proceed in Afghanistan, the president hasn't been to the war-torn country since entering the White House. Actually, it's worse:...
October 30, 2009 12:00 AMVice President Joe Biden's trip last week to Poland and the Czech Republic may have helped soothe rattled allies after Team Obama pitched overboard the W-era, anti-Iran missile shield that was to be deployed in both...
October 27, 2009 12:00 AMSO why did President Obama opt last week to become the first presi dent since 1991 to not meet the Dalai Lama during his visit to Washington? Most figure Obama dissed the Dalai Lama in order to curry favor with...
October 12, 2009 12:00 AMREPLETE with Olympian fanfare, China just a few days ago "celebrated" the 60th anniversary of the founding and achievements of the People's Republic. Unfortunately, not everyone is celebrating -- especially not...
October 06, 2009 12:00 AMTHE Obama administra tion is getting ready to throw the proposed Eastern European-based US missile-defense system under the bus. The move is a sop to the Russians (and to lefties here at home) -- but will render us...
September 08, 2009 12:00 AMAMERICAN and Russian teams will start another round of talks in Vienna as early as today on a new nuclear-arms-reduction pact to replace the expiring Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. Problem is Russia isn't meeting...
August 31, 2009 2:21 AMTHE Pentagon says it's not worried about a couple of Russian Akula-class attack submarines patrolling some 200 miles off the US Eastern coast -- that it raises no "red" flags at the moment. Fair enough -- but the...
August 07, 2009 2:30 AMMOST Americans have noticed that President Obama's economic policies aren't getting the job done. Fewer, however, realize that the administration's foreign policies are flagging after just six months in the White...
July 23, 2009 2:52 AMLOOKS like we may have a new upstart in the shadowy world of cyber-warfare: North Korea. Yes, that's right, fingers are pointing at North Korea as the perp in a spate of cyber-strikes against both South Korean and...
July 09, 2009 3:10 AMTHE Obama administration is reacting to the antici pated launch of another North Korean long-range ballistic missile, expected to fly over the Pacific toward Hawaii sometime soon, by putting missile defense on alert....
July 01, 2009 2:42 AMHARDLY a week seems to go by without North Korean leader Kim Jong Il deciding to once again chest-thump President Obama in an increasingly dangerous game of school-yard bullying. US planes and spy satellites are now...
June 20, 2009 2:01 AMIF there's a shred of good news in the sentencing of American journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling to 12 years in a North Korean prison labor camp, it's that they'll probably never see the inside of one. That's...
June 09, 2009 2:22 AMUNFORTUNATELY, Presi dent Obama is likely to use this week's visits to Saudi Arabia and Egypt as stops on his Apology World Tour, repudiating Bush-era Middle East and War on Terror policies. Instead of creating...
June 02, 2009 3:02 AMA North Korean nuclear- weapons test, taken in iso lation, is bad enough. But put into a wider context, the underground blast over the Memorial Day weekend is worse than many realize. A lot worse. First, on the...
May 27, 2009 1:27 AMIT'S one doozy of a case of "he said, she said." House Speaker Nancy Pel osi, a senior Democrat, and the White House-appointed CIA director, Leon Panetta, are having a tiff about "who told whom what when"...
May 16, 2009 2:42 AMAMERICA needs to pay a heckuva a lot more atten tion to the cyberthreat. Now. Sure, the Pentagon is refuting a Wall Street Journal report last week that hackers pinched loads of data on the military's newest, high...
April 27, 2009 1:19 AMIN another outreach to rogu ish regimes, the Obama ad ministration on Monday an nounced the easing of some restrictions on Cuba. Team Bam hopes that a new face in the White House will heal old wounds. Fat chance....
April 15, 2009 12:17 AMIF you think reactions to President Obama's arrival on the world stage from the likes of the Russian, Chinese, Iranian, Venezuelan and even European leaders have been lukewarm at best, check out the North Koreans....
April 02, 2009 3:10 AMFROM the looks of it, the Kremlin hasn't bought into the whole "reset but ton" gimmick the White House has put forward as a framework for the Obama administration's new Russia policy. Despite the olive branch...
March 19, 2009 1:44 AMJUST two weeks after the Obama Pentagon crowed that the recent US-China military-to-military talks were practically the best ever, Beijing's navy confronted a US ship operating in international waters in the South...
March 12, 2009 3:05 AMSECRETARY of State Hill ary Clinton will get her chance to mash the Obama administration's "reset button" on US-Russian relations when she parachutes into Geneva to meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov...
March 05, 2009 3:01 AMGET this: The Obama adminis tration has put plans for our missile-defense system in Eastern Europe under review - even as fresh signs pop up that Iran is closing in on nuclear and ICBM capabilities. Talk about bad...
February 23, 2009 12:46 AMMEXICO may be headed to hell in a handbasket as a result of grisly fighting between the federal government and drug cartels - and among the narco-gangs themselves. Some of last week's news: * Authorities...
January 30, 2009 12:43 AMRUSSIA'S decision to cut off natural-gas shipments to Ukraine - and essentially 13 other European states that receive gas via its pipelines - is a lot more than a business decision based on failed year-end contract...
January 09, 2009 12:58 AMAFTER years of haggling, North Korea is refusing to allow routine disarmament inspections of its nuclear (weapons) program, leaving the Six-Party Talks, established to denuclearize Pyongyang, in limbo. Who's...
December 19, 2008 12:49 AMIN the wake of the terror attacks that killed more than 180 people (including at least six Americans) and wounded another 300 in Mumbai, India, last week, the burning question is: Who done it - and why? It's still...
December 01, 2008 1:59 AMBarack Obama campaigned on the promise of "change," but one change the president-elect may be planning on - not deploying a US missile defense in Eastern Europe - would be a big mistake. Indeed, it's exactly the...
November 18, 2008 4:37 AMGOT news for you: The Chinese are eating our cyber lunch. In the last few weeks, the media have been filled with reports of Chinese cyber spies penetrating the computer networks of both presidential campaigns and...
November 12, 2008 4:53 AMRUSSIA'S alliance with Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez just keeps getting tighter - and worse for America. Now, Moscow could be putting "El Loco" on the road to getting the bomb. Russia has already sold billions...
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