2016-05-13 By Ed Timperlake With President Obama visiting Vietnam, it is now time for a celebration of a very successful bipartisan pro-bono effort to help build elementary schools in Vietnam. The late Jack Wheeler upon hearing of Lew Puller Jr ‘s tragic suicide challenged us all to build enough schools…
2016-05-15 By Kenneth Maxwell On Thursday May 12, 2016, the Brazilian senate voted by 55 to 22 to begin an impeachment trail of Dilma Rousseff. This means she was suspended from office and vice president Michel Temer was installed as interim president of Brazil. The trial of Rousseff in the senate could last up to…
2016-05-15 By Richard Weitz While celebrating the formal inauguration last week of its new Aegis Ashore ballistic missile defense (BMD) site in Romania, NATO’s July heads-of-state summit in Warsaw will need to decide how to develop NATO’s BMD architecture after the fulfillment of the existing plans to establish one more…
2016-05-09 By Richard Weitz Second Line of Defense again attended the annual Moscow Conference on International Security, which met April 26-28, 2016. This year’s focus was international terrorism. The presenters also offered insights into Russia’s military operations in Syria and expectations for future relations with the United States. The Russian…
2016-04-24 By Kenneth Maxwell President Barack Obama was in London this week on his way back from a visit to Saudi Arabia. The visit to Britain was a valedictory visit of sorts. It will probably his last visit to the United Kingdom as the President of the United States. On Friday he took his presidential…
2016-04-23 Unless you read and speak Danish or have friends in Denmark, you might have missed this one. Boeing is reinventing itself in Denmark using its American approach in Nordic country. Instead of the Vikings invading Anglo-Saxon territory, we are seeing something in reverse. When companies compete to sell their…
2016-04-14 By Harald Malmgren 2016 is a year of political disorder in many nations. Long established political parties are suffering fragmentation and leadership disputes. In some nations new parties are forming and gaining momentum. In others fringe parties are gaining traction and emerging as mainstream challengers. Voter frustration and discontent…
2016-04-08 Editor's Note: With all the fireworks about Donald Trump, what is missed is that both Trump on the Republican side and Sanders on the Democratic side represent rejections of the current state of affairs with regard to outsourcing manufacturing from the United States. It is no surprise that…
