John R. Guardiano Archives - Page 2 of 2 - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
by | Oct 7, 2009

Do U.S. military leaders have a right to speak publicly about wartime requirements and defense policy? A growing number of commentators, on both the left and the right, say that they do not. Generals need to “shut up and salute,”…

by | Oct 5, 2009

The publication of General Stanley A. McChrystal’s confidential assessment of the situation in Afghanistan has precipitated much tut-tutting by the chattering classes. The consensus seems to be that the leak of this document (to the Washington Post‘s esteemed Bob Woodward)…

by | Jun 24, 2009

Advocates of military modernization have been largely silent even as the Obama administration pushes through the most significant weapon systems cuts since the Carter administration. This is in part because Defense Secretary Robert Gates has done a masterful job of…

by | Apr 23, 2009

“Once the decision is made — and particularly once the president signs off on the budget — then there needs to be discipline about people not conducting guerrilla warfare against decisions the president has made… We have a chain of…

by | Jan 7, 2008

Mike Huckabee’s surprisingly strong showing in Iowa and elsewhere may have more to do with his unabashed embrace of Christmas than anything else. Last month, the former Republican governor of Arkansas aired a campaign commercial in which he said, “At…

by | Feb 11, 2005

To his liberal blogger critics, he is a dangerous, cold-blooded “psychopath” who derives pleasure from sterile acts of killing. As such, he should be fired or demoted and stripped of his command. To the conservative talk radio crowd, he is…

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