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Putting the Missile Defense Test in Perspective

Postponing the Day of Reckoning:  Independent Panel Fails toGive Congress a Defense Policy Road Map

"Nothing focuses the mind," Mark Twain might have said, "like the prospect of a North Korean ballistic missile launch." Indeed, the dramatic revelation that the North Koreans may be preparing to launch one of their Taepo Dong missiles over the Pacific, threatening such U.S. allies as South Korea, Japan and Taiwan, may have finally focused the minds of the Senate's most determined opponents of missile defense.

Oil for Food is one of the greatest financial scandals of modern times.

Maintaining a healthy defense posture requires sustained funding for national defense at no less than 4 percent of GDP. Unless Congress continues to separate funding for ongoing militaryoperations to combat terrorism from the core defense program, thecost of these ongoing operations will come at the expense ofnecessary long-term investments for defense.