The Postal Service needs to be converted into a regular business, facing market competition and disciplined by active, focused shareholders. It must be permitted to reduce its high and rigid costs, and to adjust to the realities of a new communications marketplace. This should be done through de-monopolization, corporatization, and eventual privatization, as has been done in many other countries.

Tension between Iran and the United States flared on December 28, 2011, when Habibollah Sayyari, commander of Iran’s navy, threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, the 34-mile-wide passage through which more than one-third of the world’s oil tanker traffic travels.

The inspectors general report ignores history and plays politics with the law.

The main challenge is to overcome years of chronic neglect in terms of economic development, government services, and above all security.

The FBI during the Obama Administration has stopped many would-be attacks, but it is still a work in progress.

There are nine principles the Obama administration should follow to achieve success in Afghanistan.

Lessons from the Australian Wedgetail aircraft program are critical to future defense-industrial efforts.

If the British public wants "greater assurance against the possibility of attacks,""some increase in intrusive activity by the UK's intelligence and security Agencies is the inevitable consequence."