Money, Politics and Israel's Defense
by Shoshana Bryen
March 7, 2014 | Gatestone Institute
Missile defense buys time and the Administration should appreciate -- and fund -- that. So when the President is leaning hard on Israel to be forthcoming and flexible on issues of its own short and long-term security, the signal that missile defenses are expendable sends the wrong signal to both friends and adversaries.
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Putin's Russia or Russia's Putin
by Ilya Levkov
March 4, 2014 | inFocus WINTER 2014
Editor's Note: The crisis in Ukraine requires an understanding of the Russian State and its political, historic and military drivers. Ilya Levkov, President of Liberty Publishing, wrote in the JPC's inFOCUS Quarterly (Winter 2014):
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America Speaks: Who Cares?
by Shoshana Bryen
March 3, 2014 | American Thinker
President Obama has long made clear his distaste for fighting wars -- his or anyone else's. He has followed through on his belief in diplomacy not necessarily moored to military power, and on his priority issues within the military related to social and group identity issues. Now in his sixth year, the president has almost fully implemented his assumptions through budget cuts. Objective geopolitical circumstances aside, he is spending the "peace dividend" he claims.
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Waking up to Defense Cuts
by Shoshana Bryen
February 27, 2014 | American Thinker
If you are surprised by this week's announcement of major manpower cuts to the U.S. Army, you haven't been paying attention. For a long time.
There are two components to understanding America's defense spending choices -- the political and the budgetary; they are not the same. The Administration has made the political case clear.
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On the Border of Freedom: Ukraine and Venezuela
by Shoshana Bryen
February 24, 2014 | Gatestone Institute
In a thoughtful piece on conservative internationalism last year, Professor Henry R. Nau postulated that "American foreign policy should seek to increase the number of regimes that are democratic, not just to preserve global stability or defend national borders. But it would seek to do so primarily on the borders of countries where freedom already exists, not in areas such as the Middle East (Iraq) or southwest Asia (Afghanistan)."
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Why Jordanians Worry about the Two-State Solution
by Shoshana Bryen
February 7, 2014 | Forbes
It has been said that Jordan is the only Arab country in which Palestinians have "full citizenship." That is less than a complete truth. As Secretary of State John Kerry pursues his plan for a "two state solution," the insecurity of Palestinian legal status in Jordan is emerging.
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US Security Assurances and the End of UN Resolution 242
by Shoshana Bryen
February 3, 2014 | Gatestone Institute
Secretary John Kerry took Israel's primary requirement -- "secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force" (the language of UN Resolution 242) -- off the negotiating table.
Under Kerry's new formulation, Israel's sovereign legitimacy and secure boundaries do not have to be recognized by the Arab states, the Palestinians or anyone else; just determined, accepted and guaranteed by the United States -- and for how long is not clear… (probably) until about the time the U.S decides it wants to end another war "responsibly."
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Seeing What Isn't There
by Shoshana Bryen
January 28, 2014 | American Thinker
When he wrote about "the man who wasn't there," William Hughes Mearns could have been speaking for the American government's proclivity to see an Israeli-Palestinian peace that doesn't exist. Secretary of State Kerry at Davos rendered the 2014 version. "The truth is that after decades of struggling with this conflict, we all know what the endgame looks like." Like Mearns, he was speaking of the man -- or endgame -- that isn't there.
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