For someone of the all-too-common opinion that a strong defense is the cause of war, a favorite trick is to advance a wholesale revision of strategy, so that he may accomplish his depredations while looking like a reformer.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

The book will not be, as it should, a cause for joyous celebration, but one of defense and explanation.

NEWYORKER: Letters to an Editor

If it can be determined that Fuhrman has a pattern of fabricating probable cause, and if the defense can show there is evidence he made have done so in this case, the defense could seek to have all the evidence found by Fuhrman thrown out of the case.

CNN: AUGUST 28

If true, that would rule out an in-flight explosion as the cause of the crash of Air France Flight 447, Defense Minister Nelson Jobim told reporters.

CNN: Brazilian air force says debris was not from Air France crash

The cause for this disastrous oversight is the flawed Department of Defense Mobility Capability Study (MCS) that was preliminarily briefed to members of Congress in December 2005.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The QDR and strategic mobility

The Americans may receive little gratitude for national missile defense, but yet again, they will be making a large and disinterested financial sacrifice in the cause of world peace.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Taking the Rumsfeld Effect��1 to Europe