Defense Drumbeat

By Joseph I. Lieberman As appeared in The Washington Post For more than 50 years, national security leaders have gathered annually at the Munich Security Conference, a conclave established during the depths of the Cold War as a meeting place for the Western allies standing against the communist threat. I have been privileged to attend almost half of these meetings — from the era… Read more »

Tomorrow is the deadline for the White House to deliver a comprehensive detention strategy to Congress, which may include a plan for closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. The FY 16 NDAA requires that he submit such a plan by February 23, 2016. Despite years of campaigning on the issue, President Obama has never proposed a plan outlining where detainees too dangerous to… Read more »

WSJ Editorial: The Rogue-State ICBM The intercontinental nuclear missile threat arrives in America. Americans have been focused on New Hampshire and Iowa, but spare a thought for Los Angeles, Denver and Chicago. Those are among the cities within range of the intercontinental ballistic missile tested Sunday by North Korea. Toledo and Pittsburgh are still… Read more »

Politico Reports on Programs DoD Fought To Cut Last Year, Today They Tout Them as Vital Just three months ago, President Barack Obama blasted lawmakers for pumping billions of dollars into weapons the Pentagon hadn't requested. Now his administration is touting some of those same weapons as crucial for combating the Islamic State and for deterring a rising… Read more »

By: Kate Brannen - Vice News A trio of former Obama administration officials painted a grim picture of the fight against the Islamic State group, on the day of the president's State of the Union speech. "I would not be surprised if I woke up one morning and ISIS in Libya had grabbed a large portion" of territory there, similar to the Blitzkrieg-style push it made in Iraq… Read more »

As the President prepares for his final State of the Union, he continues to be out-of-touch with the realities of ISIS and the threat it poses to the United States and the world. Michael Morell, Former Acting Director of the Central Intelligence Agency under the Obama Administration, testified before the Committee today giving his thoughts on ISIS. What President Obama told the New… Read more »

Chairman Thornberry sat down with C-SPAN's Newsmakers to discuss national security and what he hopes to hear from President Obama during tomorrow's State of the Union. Read more »

Today, Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-TX), Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, discussed the "man-made-detonation" in North Korea with CNN's Wolf Blitzer. Watch the full interview here. Read more »

"You've got to obey the laws, even if you're the president, even if it's inconvenient..." Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-TX), Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee on Fox News. Watch the full clip here. "The five Taliban leaders, held at the military prison in Cuba, were informed that they were being released two days before the administration told… Read more »

“You've got to obey the laws, even if you're the president, even if it's inconvenient...” - Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-TX) MYTH: The Report doesn’t identify any statements Pentagon officials made to Congress that were incorrect or misleading.- Lt.… Read more »