Monthly Archives: January 2009
On January 13, in an impressive appearance before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Secretary of State-designate Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton reinforced the President-elect’s commitment to increase funding for the International Affairs Budget and to use the full range of our nation’s “smart power” tools – diplomacy, development and defense – to address the global [...]
By JULIAN E. BARNES Los Angeles Times January 13, 2009 Adm. Michael Mullen says the Defense Department should tell leaders when military force is not the best response and be able to transfer resources to other agencies when needed. Reporting from Washington – The country’s top uniformed officer said Monday that the Defense Department should [...]
President-elect Barack Obama will inherit such a wide array of foreign-policy problems that he’s going to need a triple-layer in-basket: ”URGENT,” ”ASAP” and ”PRIORITY.” The blog-savvy president may even need an ”OMG!” tray on really bad days. An indispensable first step to cope with these multiple crises will be to restore diplomacy to its proper [...]
Dear President-Elect Obama: Your Administration will confront challenges and opportunities in an interconnected world, in which our security and prosperity are tied to the security and prosperity of others, problems cannot be managed in isolation, and addressing critical national security concerns will require that we advance shared global interests. To consider these challenges, over 215 [...]
