The U.S. and Global Security Review - Blog by Michael Novakhov

Like Cops in Fergson, America Must Police the World Thursday November 27 th , 2014  at  12:19 PM Breitbart Feed 1 Share In his new book  America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder  (Sentinal, $32.95),  Wall Street Journal  columnist and Pulitzer winner Bret Stephens makes a timely analogy between the broken windows policing theory and  Pax Americana , or what I like to call  Peace through Strength . As we watch radicals, malcontents, provocateurs, and looters tear up Ferguson, Missouri, Stephens provides a timely reminder that more than a few places in the world need the same sort of adult supervision that the police and the National Guard are attempting to provide to the citizens in that unfortunate Missouri town. George Kelling, a criminologist at Rutgers, and James Q. Wilson, a Harvard Political Scientist, published a piece in 1982 on crime in  The Atlantic Monthly  which, as Stephens says, would become one of the mos

Top Stories - Google News Flournoy not a candidate for defense secretary - Washington Times Today, November 26th 12:36pm · top stories Shared by  1  person The front runner in the search to replace outgoing Defense Secretary  Chuck Hagel  has reportedly removed herself from consideration from the post. Michele Flournoy, co-founder and chief executive officer of the Center for a New American Security, announced in a Tuesday letter to the center’s board of directors that she would not be a candidate for the position, which could have made her the first woman to serve in the post. “Last night I spoke with President Obama and removed myself from consideration due to family concerns,” the letter states. “After much agonizing, we decided that now was not the right time for me to reenter the government.” Foreign Policy first reported on the letter. Among the remaining contenders are current and former  Hagel  deputies Robert Ashton Carter. Se