AFGHANISTAN All options on the table for NATO Adrian Croft and Justyna Pawlak, Reuters – February 27, 2014 NATO plans and hope to retain a small presence in Afghanistan past 2014 together with United States forces. Due to Afghan President Hamid Karz…

This past Wednesday, U.S. foreign policy and North Korea experts gathered on the Hill and said that the U.S. needed a “fresh look” at U.S. policy towards North Korea.

IRAN Republican Senators seek a vote on dangerous sanctions bill Patricia Zengerle and Richard Cowan, Reuters – February 25, 2014 The Kirk-Menendez Bill (S. 1881), which would threaten to impose new sanctions on Iran, was nearly dead after several of i…

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Monday that the nation would keep its air-land-sea nuclear triad approach to the nuclear arsenal, despite new Pentagon cuts. “We’ll make important investments to preserve a safe, secure, reliable and effective nuclear force.”

DEFENSE SPENDING Projected Department of Defense Budget to Ignore Sequester Cuts Marcus Weisgerber and Christopher P. Cavas, The Military Times – February 23, 2014 Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel will offer a preview of the next five years in defense …