All Washington wants is to continue doing what it has been doing since it became a maritime power: use its Navy to enhance international peace and security, deter conflict, reassure allies, and collect intelligence. LOST undercuts these strategic imperatives, and that is why it has always been a bad idea for the United States.

The George W. Bush administration is urging the U.S. Senate to consent this summer to the Convention on the Law of the Sea, a complex and sprawling treaty that governs shipping, navigation, mining, fishing, and other ocean activities. Deputy secretary of state John Negroponte and deputy defense secretary Gordon England...

The Law of the Sea Treaty's ratification will diminish our capacity for self government, including, ultimately, our capacity for self defense.

I have found that the Uncertainty Principle of quantum physics actually has no analogue in foreign policy. Regardless, it is a good way to describe Obama's foreign policy doctrine.

The Japanese military is emerging from decades of pacifism. But do the country's political leaders have the vision and the will to make the country strong again?

Only by continuing to act on the high seas as it always has can the United States hope to maintain a system of international rules that serves its own interests. Ratifying UNCLOS could very well have the opposite effect.