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Does U.S. Foreign Assistance Elicit Support for U.S. Policy? Not at the United Nations
Source: Heritage Foundation
Author: Brett D. Schaefer
Country: United States

Schaefer investigates whether U.S. foreign aid fosters any kind of policy allegiance from those nations that have been assisted. (10/25/99)

Fixing What Ain’t Broke: The Renewed Call for Conscription
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Doug Bandow
Country: United States

Should the United States bring back the draft? Doug Bandow argues that it would not only be bad for our liberties, but conscription would harm the military. Available online in Adobe PDF format. (8/31/99)

Empire and reaction
Source: Antiwar.com
Author: Joseph R. Stromberg
Country: United States

The United States is following an old imperial path toward increasing authoritarianism at home, and permanent war overseas. (03/13/01)

Foreign Policy Studies
Source: The Cato Institute
Country: United States

"Cato’s foreign policy work supports the concepts of a national defense based on strategic independence and diplomacy based on prudent nonintervention." (9/1/99)

Does U.S. intervention overseas breed terrorism?
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Ivan Eland
Country: United States

A survey of numerous terrorist incidents cataloged suggest that the United States could reduce the chances of such devastating -- and potentially catastrophic -- terrorist attacks by adopting a policy of military restraint overseas. (12/17/98)

Wilsonianism: The legacy that won't die
Source: Journal of Libertarian Studies
Author: Paul Gottfried
Country: United States

Woodrow Wilson's moralistic zeal to dispatch troops around the world and punish resisting nations still infects the modern world. (Fall, 1990)

Empire or liberty: The Anti-federalists and foreign policy
Source: Journal of Libertarian Studies
Author: Jonathan Marshall
Country: United States

America's original opponents of centralized government saw a small military and noninterventionism as vital to maintaining personal freedom. (Summer, 1980)

The foreign policy of the Old Right
Source: Journal of Libertarian Studies
Author: Murray N. Rothbard
Country: United States

Before America's political right turned hawkish, its leading lights embraced non-interventionism overseas. (Spring, 1978)

The final secret of Pearl Harbor
Source: Antiwar.com
Author: John T. Flynn
Country: United States

Flynn, one of the few journalists to contemporaneously challenge FDR's regime, penned this pamphlet in 1945, suggesting that top officials knew rather a lot about the attack on Pearl Harbor before it happened. (1945)

Let's make national missile defense truly 'national'
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Ivan Eland
Country: United States

Ivan Eland explores the advantages of a "limited land-based [defense] system" over a more robust missile defense. This report is available in Adobe PDF. (6/27/00)

Missile Defense: Ending America's Vulnerability
Source: Heritage Foundation
Author: Baker Spring and James H. Anderson, Ph.D.
Country: United States

"A report released in September 1999 by the National Intelligence Council concluded: We project that during the next 15 years the United States most likely will face ICBM [intercontinental ballistic missile] threats from Russia, China, and North Korea, probably from Iran, and possibly from Iraq." And that's just for starters...(1/07/00)

Instability in the Philippines: A case study for U.S. disengagement
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Doug Bandow
Country: United States

This study looks at the U.S. relationship with the Philippines and suggests that "Washington ... promote greater economic integration and sell weapons to Manila and neighboring states seeking to augment their militaries." It is available in Adobe PDF. (03/22/01)

Arms control and missile defense: not mutually exclusive
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Charles V. Pena
Country: United States

This report examines the most prudent path for national defense. It suggests a limited National Missile Defense system and a renegotiation of the ABM Treaty with the Russians. The report is available in Adobe PDF. (7/26/00)

Understanding America
Source: Centre for Independent Studies
Author: Owen Harries
Country: United States

An Australian scholar's effort to explain and understand the United States. "Relentlessly washing its dirty linen in public is an American specialty ... Americans are seriously and pragmatically dedicated to self-correction." (04/02)

The federalism implications of international human rights law
Source: The Federalist Society
Author: Christian G. Vergonis
Country: United States

Paper explaining why those concerned with the structural elements of domestic federalism ought to care about recent developments in international human rights law. (PDF file) (08/02)

From the sea: national missile defense is neither cheap nor easy
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Charles Pena
Country: United States

A skeptical examination of sea-based missile defense. Also available in Adobe Acrobat format. (9/6/00)

A hollow debate on military readiness
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Ivan Eland
Country: United States

This report examines the hollow debate regarding U.S. military readiness. "'Pockets of unreadiness' in the U.S. military have three causes: profligate commitment of U.S. forces overseas, misallocation of funds by the Pentagon and Congress, and excessive readiness requirements." The report is available in Adobe PDF. (10/17/00)

A policy toward Cuba that serves U.S. interests
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Philip Peters
Country: United States

"The wide array of U.S. sanctions has failed to promote change in Cuba and has allowed Castro to reinforce his arguments that the United States promotes economic deprivation in Cuba and seeks to abridge Cuban sovereignty." This report examines the need for change in U.S.-Cuba relations. It is available in Adobe PDF. (11/2/00)

The peculiar U.S. theory of self-defense
Source: Antiwar.com
Author: Joseph R. Stromberg
Country: United States

In 1935, Albert K. Weinberg's "Manifest Destiny: A Study of Nationalist Expansionism in American History" explored American imperialism and expansionism in a way that still applies today. (06/12/01)

The rogue state doctrine and National Missile Defense
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Ivan Eland with Daniel Lee
Country: United States

This study looks at recent political developments that might "allow the Bush administration to slow the development and deployment of a limited land-based national missile defense." It is available in Adobe PDF. (03/29/01)

Building leverage in the long war: Ensuring intelligence community creativity in the fight against terrorism
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: James W. Harris
Country: United States

In this report Harris recommends ways in which the intelligence community can be more creative in its fight against terrorism. It is available in Adobe PDF. (05/16/02)

U.S. prepares for another cold war instead of terrorism
Source: Independent Institute
Author: Robert Higgs
Country: United States

"Defense against terrorism requires spending priorities different from those favored since the onset of the Cold War. Unfortunately -- and unsurprisingly, given its incentives -- the military-industrial-congressional complex has been preparing to fight the last war rather than addressing America’s current security needs." (09/01)

Putting 'Defense' Back into U.S. Defense Policy: Rethinking U.S. Security in the Post-Cold War World
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Ivan Eland
Country: United States

"In this compelling study, Eland questions the core assumptions of the American foreign policy and defense establishments that call for military interventions around the world and high and increasing defense budgets at home."

Waging the new war on terrorism
Source: NCPA
Author: Frank Gaffney
Country: United States

Gaffney, a senior defense official in the Reagan White House, lays out a plan for a successful campaign in response to the terrorist attacks. (10/08/01)

In the name of emergency
Source: Independent Institute
Author: Robert Higgs
Country: United States

"Besides the Normal Constitution, protective of individual rights, we now have a Crisis Constitution, hostile to individual rights and friendly to the unchecked power of government officials. In national emergencies the Crisis Constitution overrides the Normal Constitution." (10/17/01)

Draft registration: the politics of institutional immorality
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Doug Bandow
Country: United States

"[T]he sign-up remains glaringly inconsistent with our commitment to raise America's armed forces in a manner consonant with the fundamental freedoms that underlay the founding of our nation and that the military is tasked to defend." (1994)

Should the United States 'weaponize' space? Military and commercial implications
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Charles V. Pena and Edward L. Hudgins
Country: United States

In this report the authors "argue that despite the vulnerability of U.S. space-based assets, the United States -- which relies heavily on satellites for military and commercial communications, tactical warning, and surveillance -- has the most to lose from an orbital arms race." It is available in Adobe PDF. (03/18/02)

An Assessment of the Recommendations of the American Bar Association Regarding the Use of Military Commissions in the War on Terror
Source: The Federalist Society
Author: Lee A. Casey, David B. Rivkin, Jr., and Darin R. Bartram
Country: United States

Adobe Acrobat is needed. (04/02)

Robust response to 9/11 is needed but poking the hornets' nest is ill-advised
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Ivan Eland
Country: United States

Eland examines the fine line between an appropriate U.S. response to terrorism and a worldwide war that might create more terrorists. This report is available in Adobe PDF. (12/18/01)

The President's power to terminate the ABM treaty
Source: FedSoc
Author: Michael D. Ramsey
Country: United States

Professor Ramsey analyzes the issues surrounding President Bush's intentions to withdraw from the treaty limiting use of Anti-Ballistic Missiles, signed some two decades ago with the then-Soviet Union, and notes that, "as a practical matter, this is not a radical assertion of presidential power." (12/28/01)

The war on terrorism and the Commander in Chief clause
Source: FedSoc
Author: Allison R. Hayward, Daniel Kelly & Michael F. Williams
Country: United States

"In this paper, we seek to remind readers that the Commander in Chief Clause of the Constitution provides an important institutional imit on the authority of the President during times of war and emergency." (12/28/01)

The War Powers Resolution: an unnecessary, unconstitutional source of 'friendly fire'
Source: FedSoc
Author: Robert F. Turner
Country: United States

Professor Turner examines the Constitutional role of Congress in issuing declarations of war, and declares that the War Powers Act is not the source of the problem of imperial presidencies. (12/28/01)

Federal report on Israeli spy ring
Source: Antiwar.com/U.S. federal government
Country: United States

Was Israel spying on the United States in the days leading up to September 11? An inter-agency federal report seems to say so. (Adobe Acrobat) (03/20/02)

Personalizing Crises
Source: Hoover Institution
Author: Alastair Smith
Country: United States

Smith advocates the idea that U.S. foreign policy should "personalize" crises, i.e. target threats toward specific foreign leaders. (12/01)

Can a multiservice fighter program succeed?
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Christopher Preble
Country: United States

According to this study the Pentagon's plan to develop a multiuse fighter, the Joint Strike Fighter, for the Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps has a good chance of succeeding because the department has avoided the mistakes of the disastrous 1960's Tactical Fighter Experimental program. (Full report available as PDF file.) (12/05/02)

Are U.S. troops ready for chemical and biological attacks?
Source: Cato
Author: Eric R. Taylor
Country: United States

Policy analysis examining U.S. troop readiness for nuclear, biological, and chemical attacks. (Full text available as PDF) (2/5/03)

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