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US military updates Trump's North Korea options Military options have been prepared By: BARBARA STARR AND ZACHARY COHEN Posted: Jun 28, 2017 06:57 PM EDT Updated: Jun 28, 2017 10:37 PM EDT WASHINGTON (CNN) - US military options for North Korea have recently been updated and are ready to be presented to President Donald Trump if Pyongyang conducts an underground nuclear or ballistic missile test that indicates the regime has made a significant progress towards developing a weapon that could attack the US, two US military officials told CNN. National security adviser HR McMaster also confirmed publicly Wednesday that military...

Robert Gates isn't just our secretary of defense -- he's our national damage-control officer. The closest thing this love-your-enemies administration has to an indispensable man, Gates is fighting the good fight in the worst of times. Ever since signing on as President George W. Bush's SecDef in early 2005, Gates has fought to reform the Air Force, improve the Pentagon's dysfunctional acquisition system, give our troops in the field what they really need and cut through the red tape that's paid for in red blood. The greatest sacrifice any top-echelon public figure has made in decades was Gates' agreement to...

TEHRAN, April 8 (UPI) -- No U.S. soldiers in the region would live to tell about a U.S. military attack on Iranian soil, the chief of staff of the Iranian armed forces said Thursday. Maj. Gen. Hassan Firouzabadi, the armed forces chief of staff, was quoted in the semiofficial Fars News Agency as saying Thursday that U.S. soldiers would not survive an attack on Iran. "If the U.S. seriously threatens Iran and takes an action against Iran, none of the U.S. soldiers in the region will return to America alive," he said. Washington is ramping up the pressure on Iran...

You Tube video interview on Israeli TV with the President expressing the use of the military option against Iran.

S. Korea to Press Bush on North Roh Will Urge Diplomacy and Oppose Military Approach By Anthony Faiola and Joohee Cho Washington Post Foreign Service Thursday, June 9, 2005; Page A18 SEOUL, June 8 -- South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun will press President Bush in a meeting in Washington on Friday to reaffirm the United States' commitment to a diplomatic resolution of the North Korean nuclear standoff, according to South Korean officials familiar with Roh's plans. Roh intends to underscore Seoul's position that any military option is "unacceptable." In exchange, Roh will offer assurances that South Korea will support...

There's a lot of debate these days about the Congo, Liberia, and what the USA should do. What if the answer is "nothing"? How do we make choices like that? This 5-way discussion among liberals and conservatives addresses some of these issues, providing solid background on the situations and history at play in The Congo & Liberia, the limits on foreign intervention, and the USA's capacity to intervene. We can't be everywhere. As Kaplan notes, we need to be in some of these places. How do we think about those choices? Sometimes, too, the depressing answer to how much we...