“I mean, how many people have that on their resume?”
To my knowledge , none of the candidates except Newt.
Newt’s statements and acts concerning Homeland Security over the years:
It’s nonsense to disarm America to balance the budget. (Oct 2011)
Real danger of Iran getting nukes from Pakistan. (Sep 2011)
We have enemies that want disasters on an enormous scale. (Sep 2011)
Defense as percentage of GDP is lowest since WWII. (Jul 2011)
Gitmo lawyers threaten to identify our CIA officers. (May 2010)
Post-9/11, it’s terrorism vs. civilization. (Sep 2009)
Be prepared in a very militant and aggressive way. (Feb 2009)
Gingrich-plus-up: $1B increase in 1990s Pentagon funding. (Dec 2007)
Contain nuclear threats:China, Russia, Pakistan, North Korea. (Sep 2007)
1980s: Supported squadron of 132 B-2 stealth bombers. (May 2007)
Military tribunals to lock people up the way Lincoln did. (May 2007)
Defend America & allies with information policies. (Dec 2006)
Biological threat bigger than nuclear threat. (Sep 2003)
Co-founded Military Reform Caucus as “cheap hawk solution”. (Jun 1995)
No US troops under UN command; more defense spending. (Sep 1994)
Newt’s statements and acts concerning War and Peace:
Covert operations & military, if needed, to stop Iran nukes. (Nov 2011)
Wrong to intervene in Libya; covert action more effective. (Aug 2011)
No US conventional forces in Libya. (Jul 2011)
Get out of Arab region rapidly; make new strategy. (Jun 2011)
Goal was to liberate Iraq from Saddam, not to occupy. (Dec 2007)
The “Irreconcilable Wing of Islam” threatens our way of life. (Dec 2007)
Deadline for Iraqi withdrawal is legislating defeat. (May 2007)
Even if Iraq IS a civil war, people have won civil wars. (May 2007)
Pressure Iran to cut off Iraq, including blockading Iran. (May 2007)
Iraq & Syria are enemies—ok to talk if we understand that. (May 2007)
Iraqi Army risk their lives & take more casualties than US. (May 2007)
Date for withdrawal means terrorists exalt & follow us home. (May 2007)
War on terror is transformational, and will take many years. (Dec 2006)
Defend America & allies from those who would destroy us. (Dec 2006)
Critical of how Iraq war has been fought. (Nov 2006)
Iraq policy is a mess. (Dec 2003)
Move the US Embassy to Jerusalem. (Nov 1995)
For over two decades, Gingrich has taught at the United States Air Force’s Air University, where he is the longest-serving teacher of the Joint Flag Officer Warfighting Course.
In addition, he is an honorary Distinguished Visiting Scholar and Professor at the National Defense University and teaches officers from all of the defense services.
Gingrich informally advised Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld on strategic issues, on issues including the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and encouraging the Pentagon to not “yield” foreign policy influence to the State Department and National Security Council.
Gingrich is also a guiding coalition member of the Project on National Security Reform.
Gingrich is also a fellow at conservative think tanks the American Enterprise Institute and Hoover Institution, focusing on U.S. politics, world history, national security policy, and environmental policy issues.