Peter Brookes
Peter Brookes is the Heritage Foundation Senior Fellow, National Security Affairs, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
Latest Policy Articles
Right Move on Missile Defense
By Peter Brookes, Contributing Editor
According to FOX News, Team Obama has decided to deploy 14 additional ground-based interceptors (GBI) in Alaska and California against the North Korean nuclear and missile threat, reversing itself on numbers proposed by the Bush administration. Better late than never, I suppose.
By Peter Brookes, Contributing Editor
According to FOX News, Team Obama has decided to deploy 14 additional ground-based interceptors (GBI) in Alaska and California against the North Korean nuclear and missile threat, reversing itself on numbers proposed by the Bush administration. Better late than never, I suppose.
No Time for U.S. passivity
By Peter Brookes, Contributing Editor
The Arab Spring is far from settled, more trouble is likely from radicals and terrorists and we — both at home and abroad — may be the target.
By Peter Brookes, Contributing Editor
The Arab Spring is far from settled, more trouble is likely from radicals and terrorists and we — both at home and abroad — may be the target.
More Trouble Brewing in the Pacific
By Peter Brookes, Contributing Editor
As if the mess in the Middle East and North Africa weren't enough, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta arrives in Asia this week to confront a region that’s fast becoming a powder keg, fueled by power shifts, territorial disputes and lots of bad history.
By Peter Brookes, Contributing Editor
As if the mess in the Middle East and North Africa weren't enough, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta arrives in Asia this week to confront a region that’s fast becoming a powder keg, fueled by power shifts, territorial disputes and lots of bad history.
Terror Times Tick On
By Peter Brookes, Contributing Editor
But al Qaeda affiliates are rearing their ugly heads in places beyond Pakistan such as in the Middle East in Syria, Iraq, Yemen as well as in Africa in Somalia, Mali and Nigeria—places of new worries to policymakers and counterterrorism professionals.
By Peter Brookes, Contributing Editor
But al Qaeda affiliates are rearing their ugly heads in places beyond Pakistan such as in the Middle East in Syria, Iraq, Yemen as well as in Africa in Somalia, Mali and Nigeria—places of new worries to policymakers and counterterrorism professionals.
Time to Tell the Law of the Sea Treaty to get LOST
By Peter Brookes, Contributing Editor
Team Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign isn't the only campaign it has recently launched. Right alongside it is the administration's all-out campaign to get the Senate to ratify the U.N.’s 1982 Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST).
By Peter Brookes, Contributing Editor
Team Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign isn't the only campaign it has recently launched. Right alongside it is the administration's all-out campaign to get the Senate to ratify the U.N.’s 1982 Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST).
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