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If the results of one war could serve as a tutorial for the next -- if generals truly could fight the last war every time -- we could write one book on how to conduct military activities and be done with it. But we know the folly of that.

The research presented in The Heritage Foundation's Guantanamo Bay collection clearly indicates that Congress should not interfere with the U.S. military's policy of detaining unlawful alien enemycombatants at Guantanamo Bay. The United States is engaged in anongoing armed conflict against al-Qaeda in Afghanistan andtherefore has no obligation-legal, moral, or otherwise-to releasecaptured enemy soldiers so that they may return to the battlefield.Short-sighted legislation extending unpr...

Why is the Army chief of staff asking Congress for an extra $25 billion for next year? Because equipment wears out a lot faster in wartime - but Congress typically won't fund the replacement costs in time of peace.

America has about 3 million men and women in uniform. But we have a tough time keeping 160,000 in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Osama bin Laden and Ronald Reagan wouldn't have agreed on much. But both men understood one thing: Military weakness invites trouble.

America needs safe and secure borders and immigration polices that work. The solution: a combination of sensible security, workplace enforcement and legitimate opportunities to work in the United States.

It's time to start thinking about what America's military will look like after Iraq.

It's not that the 9/11 commission's report is lacking. It's been widely hailed, and rightly so, as generally on the mark.

The torch was being passed. Speeches were made. The United States transferred sovereignty from the occupation authorities to the new postwar government.

In Tom Clancy's "The Sum of All Fears," terrorists obtain a nuclear bomb, ship it to Baltimore and detonate it.