Ahead of today's meeting of Obama's national security team to discuss Afghan war strategy, Karl Eikenberry, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan and a m...
AP | LARA JAKES and ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Thursday to delay a face-to-face briefing from the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, who hours earlier had warned...
Eric Ehrmann | Posted 11.28.2009 | World
While sharing his vision of a more peaceful world with the UN and demanding big Pentagon cuts, Obama has also been lobbying Brazil to buy warplanes from shrinking defense giant Boeing.
Gary Hart | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
The national security state has become a kind of powerful prison with the president as warden. He has authority over it, but he cannot escape it.
The New York Times | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics
As the American military comes to full strength in the Afghan buildup, the Obama administration is struggling to come up with a long-promised plan to ...
Sheila Herrling | Posted 08.31.2009 | World
Amidst of a month of partisan battles on Capitol Hill, a bill was introduced this week that rose above party lines in a major step towards strengthening and reforming US foreign aid policy.
Ismael Hossein-zadeh | Posted 07.13.2009 | World
In terms of actual policy measures, President Obama and his foreign policy team have not taken any steps to reverse or mitigate the hostile policies their predecessors put into effect against Iran.
Steve Clemons | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics
I've received not just one email -- but three -- from prominent insider journalists and policy hands that Jim Jones' tenure as National Security Adviser is highly fragile.
AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama announced Tuesday he is combining White House staffs dealing with international and homeland security, predi...
The Washington Post | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics
President Obama is expected to announce late this week that he will create a "cyber czar," a senior White House official who will have broad authority...
Washington Post | Karen DeYoung | Posted 03.10.2009 | Politics
President Obama plans to order a sweeping overhaul of the National Security Council, expanding its membership and increasing its authority to set stra...
Steve Clemons | Posted 03.10.2009 | World
Give us Netanyahu. Please. His re-ascension will help Americans realize that the false choice approach the Bush administration had been taking in Israel-Palestine affairs was flawed.
AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Samantha Power, the Harvard University professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who earned notoriety for calling Hillary Rodham ...
The Plum Line | Posted 02.28.2009 | Politics
To my mind, one of the more interesting storylines unfolding right now is President Obama's ongoing appointment to the Office of Legal Counsel of lawy...
Chris Weigant | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics
Last week the Senate Armed Services Committee released a report which basically called Bush and his entire National Security Council war criminals.
Huffington Post | Nick Sabloff | Posted 11.12.2009 | World