Eighty-two percent view Russia as an enemy, up from 65 percent just last year. That increase came from double-digit jumps across Democrats, Republicans and independents, highlighting that anti-Russian sentiment crosses the partisan divide.
By Aaron MehtaOffensive missiles are much cheaper than missile defenses. So is the best defense a good offense?
By Colin ClarkUPDATED: Adds Trump Riposte WASHINGTON: When a group of Republican national security experts signed a letter denouncing Donald Trump during the primaries, we didn’t report it because it was still intramural politics. Today, some of the most respected Republican experts in national security released a letter saying Trump “would be a dangerous President and would put…
By Colin ClarkWASHINGTON: Dov Zakheim and Roger Zakheim, the father-and-son team of national security advisors to the Romney campaign, fenced with skeptical reporters this morning about what their candidate would actually do differently from the Obama administration. The big things, in brief: boost Navy shipbuilding by 66 percent; slash the civil service workforce at the Defense Department;…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The Reagan Institute’s latest survey reveals confidence in the military has dropped seven percent a year for two years running. But dig deeper, and support for a strong defense remains.
By Roger Zakheim and Rachel Hoff