The research presented in The Heritage Foundation's Guantanamo Bay collection clearly indicates that Congress should not interfere with the U.S. military's policy of detaining unlawful alien enemycombatants at Guantanamo Bay. The United States is engaged in anongoing armed conflict against al-Qaeda in Afghanistan andtherefore has no obligation-legal, moral, or otherwise-to releasecaptured enemy soldiers so that they may return to the battlefield.Short-sighted legislation extending unprecedented rights to foreignterrorists and other enemy combatants undermines U.S. troopsdeployed in the field in Afghanistan and Iraq. These detaineesshould not be released until the cessation of hostilities inAfghanistan and elsewhere.
As the Obama Administration negotiates a range of arms control initiatives with Russia, U.S. policymakers need to critically examine Russia's views on nuclear weapons and doctrine.
When it comes to spending precious U.S. tax dollars on official development assistance to third world countries, the Millennium Challenge Corporation has a better approach than USAID.
Open-source software (OSS) sits at the center of almost every digital technology moving the world since the early 1980s laptops, cellphones, widespread internet connectivity, cloud computing, social media, automation, all the rainbow flavors of e-commerce, and even secure communications and anti-censorship tools.