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  • Jed Babbin: Why Putin's anti-American gambits succeed

    Jed Babbin

    Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

    Thanks to an assortment of White House spokesmen, we know that President Obama wasn't talking with then-Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta or then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the night of the Benghazi terrorist attack. It doesn't matter where he was, we are told, because he was...

  • Jed Babbin: Sharing U.S. missile defense data with Vladimir Putin worst idea ever

    Examiner op-ed contributor

    Published: Wed, May 15, 2013

    President Obama's plan to share classified data on our missile defense system with Russia should be blocked by Congress. The head of the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency, Vice Adm. James Syring, disclosed these plans in congressional testimony last week. He also reportedly said that, while...

  • Jed Babbin: Obama is not done cutting defense just yet

    Jed Babbin

    Published: Tue, May 7, 2013

    April was a pretty awful month for President Obama, but it's too early for Republicans to start celebrating his political demise. People keep trying to compress the political calendar, wanting to convince us that time is running out for Obama, even though he's barely past 100 days in his...

  • Jed Babbin: What must be done to prevent future Bostons

    Jed Babbin

    Updated: Thu, Apr 25, 2013

    Since 9/11, we have turned ourselves inside out to prevent terror attacks. We went to war in Afghanistan and Iraq. We created the Department of Homeland Security and all its trappings, including the Transportation Security Administration, and told U.S. intelligence agencies to share...

  • Jed Babbin: A red line for North Korea

    Jed Babbin

    Updated: Sun, Apr 14, 2013

    President Obama should be applying to North Korea now what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu taught the world about "red lines" and nuclear weapons last year. After months of threatening South Korea, the United States and Japan -- the last with nuclear holocaust -- North Korea may...

  • Jed Babbin: Joe Biden, shotgun salesman

    Examiner op-ed contributor

    Published: Sat, Mar 2, 2013

    President Obama's highly controversial gun control proposal is being split into several bills that Senate Democrats hope will be easier to pass. Expanded background checks, limits on the size of weapon magazines and California Sen. Dianne Feinstein's "assault weapons" ban may all be brought up...

  • Jed Babbin: In hacking, a good defense is not enough

    Examiner op-ed contributor

    Published: Sat, Feb 9, 2013

    Chinese computer hackers attacked the Department of Energy's computer networks in late January, penetrating 14 servers and 20 workstations, according to several news reports. They were apparently seeking access to classified information as well as testing the means of penetrating other DOE...

  • Sunday Reflection: Pentagon stares into budget abyss

    Jed Babbin

    Published: Sat, Jan 19, 2013

    Planning used to be what the Pentagon did best, but no longer. Its budget was never a thing of beauty because Congress and the services were always tinkering. And beginning with the 2011 Budget Control Act, it was held hostage to politics. At White House direction, Defense Secretary Leon...

  • Jed Babbin: Why Obama chose Chuck Hagel for Defense

    Jed Babbin

    Published: Mon, Jan 7, 2013

    To understand why President Obama chose former Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., to be the next secretary of defense, it's only necessary to compare the biggest challenges facing the Pentagon to Obama's ideology and agenda. For Obama, Hagel is an almost ideal ideological choice. Hagel has been...

  • Jed Babbin: The pravda about Hillary Clinton's Russian 'reset'

    Jed Babbin

    Published: Thu, Jan 3, 2013

    "Pravda" is the Russian word for "truth", as well as the name of a Russian newspaper that is famous for avoiding it. As Hillary Clinton's term as secretary of state ends, it's time for the truth to come out about her singular achievement: the supposed resetting of our relationship with Russia....



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