It seems that the Iraqi military does not share Secretary Panetta’s confidence that it is ready to handle security without a significant U.S. military footprint.

More American troops are needed to break the cycle of violence in Iraq.

Weaning off the Fannie and Freddie addiction and retargeting FHA will be a long process, but that process should begin with allowing the temporary loan limits to drop.

Until the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the American view of radical Islam and its many discontents was shaped more by the Middle East than South Asia. The U.S. has long been at odds with the raging Ayatollah in Iran, the murderous truck bomber in Lebanon and the masked Palestinian "freedom...

Warfighting is becoming more risky as authoritarian regimes modernize their forces. If the United States wants to retain the ability to respond successfully to crises across the globe with a leaner and more cost-effective force, then our leaders must recognize that maintaining control of the air is the starting point for U.S. military supremacy.

Shared wariness over China is the main reason the U.S. and Vietnam have embraced each other. But it shouldn’t be the only one.

Targeted strikes are an important tool in our arsenal against terrorists, but they can be only one tool. The very difficulty we encountered in finding Bin Laden should warn us against seeing in such operations a magical, low-cost, small-footprint silver bullet for the problems we face.

Three years into the nationalization of housing finance by government-sponsored entities Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Housing Authority, it is time to start reducing their footprints.