Peter Voskamp, the editor of the Block Island (R.I.) Times, has reaffirmed my report that there was political pressure to keep Walt & Mearsheimer, the authors of the bombshell paper criticizing the Israel lobby, from speaking at the Naval War College in Newport 2 weeks back:
The [Israel lobby] paper was Read MoreOn Charlie Rose (rebroadcast yesterday), oilman-turned-hedgefunder Boone Pickens added his voice to the Roscoe Bartlett camp, saying we have passed the peak of oil production and will be facing shortages. The optimistic Pickens spoke of “rough times” with $100-a-barrel oil, but steered clear of predicting catastrophe.
Yet another voice belongs to Read More
Donald Winter
This is the new secretary of the Navy, Donald C. Winter, sworn in a few months ago. He opened up the Naval War College’s conference on strategy that I attended Tuesday in Rhode Island, and when I heard that he was a former VP at Northrop Grumman, I was prepared to write Read More
The item I did on John Mearsheimer’s talk at the Naval War College in which he likened Iraq to The Plague has generated a great deal of comment, all favorable. Frankly, I’m honored to have gotten his words out to a wider audience and learned, through this process, of what a sophisticated military our Read More
Harvard’s Stephen Walt, being taped by a midshipman
The reason I went to the Naval War College was to hear Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, authors of the controversial paper on the Israel lobby, address an audience of officers and experts at the Navy’s 57th annual Current Strategy Forum. It’s remarkable when you Read More
