PUBLICATIONS BY Ted R. Bromund
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2009 Commentary
October 29, 2009
Armed Forces May Count the Cost of Cutbacks on Defense
By Ted Bromund
The publication of Bernard Gray's much-leaked report on defence procurement gives all the parties a vital chance to commit to spending plans and sensible reforms that will protect the future of Britain's armed forces.
August 24, 2009
Britain's Sacred Cow: The NHS and Daniel Hannan
By Ted Bromund
Daniel Hannan is in trouble. The young Tory European MP, who became a YouTube sensation earlier this year for his denunciation of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown as the "devalued prime minister of a devalued government," has made what can in politics be a serious error: he has challenged orthodoxy in a way that is both substantive and interesting. Boring substantive challenges can be seen off, and soaring rhetoric that says nothing is the stuff of politics, but having a point and knowing how to make it will always raise bellows from the defenders of the gored sacred cow.
August 13, 2009
Brown's red tape is separating Britain from its friends
By Ted Bromund
Yale University is one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in the United States, and is among its most Anglophile. Its Yale Centre for British Art holds the finest such collection outside Britain's borders. Its Political Union is modelled on those of Oxford and Cambridge. And "Bulldogs in Britain", which brings Yale students to Britain for a summer internship, is among its most popular programmes.
April 29, 2009
A long hundred days for anyone seeking substance from Obama
By Ted Bromund
President Barack Obama marks the end of his first 100 days in office on Thursday. For those who didn't vote for him, it seems like 100 years. The remainder of Obama's tenure stretches out before us, as broad as the Sahara and about as devoid of sustenance.
March 31, 2009
Obama poised to show Europe why it's dangerous to get what you want
By Ted Bromund
When Barack Obama was elected President of the US in November, Europe got what it wanted. At the G20 summit in London on Thursday, and at the NATO 60th anniversary summit on Friday, Europe will have to deal with the consequences. The results of both occasions will be disappointing to Obama's most fervent supporters and believers in the transatlantic alliance alike.
March 24, 2009
Another crisis... and another misjudgment as Britain fails
By Ted Bromund
Over the past few months, Britain's armed services have been in crisis. Again.
2008 Commentary
October 30, 2008
Obama may not be Bush, but he won't be what Europe expects
By Ted Bromund
In the presidential contest, Americans are leaning towards Barack Obama, but they remain divided. John McCain is the underdog – though as Churchill once remarked, every dog has his day, and some days last longer than others.
2009 Research
November 06, 2009
The Pakistan-Britain Terror Connection: Lessons and Warnings for the United States
By Ted R. Bromund Ph.D., and Lisa Curtis
(Backgrounder #2337)
The Pakistan-Britain terror connection poses a serious threat to Great Britain and its allies, including the United States. Breaking the personnel, financial, and ideological links will require fighting terrorism on three fronts: Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Britain. In Afghanistan, the U.S., the U.K., and their allies need to continue to fight the Taliban and al-Qaeda. They should also hold Pakistan accountable for its failure to act decisively against terrorism. In Britain, the government needs to enforce the tightened immigration and asylum practices, refuse to cooperate with radical Islamism, and promote citizenship and economic opportunity to help immigrants assimilate into British society.
November 06, 2009
Executive Summary: The Pakistan-Britain Terror Connection: Lessons and Warnings for the United States
By Ted R. Bromund Ph.D., and Lisa Curtis
(Executive Summary #2337)
The Pakistan-Britain terror connection poses a serious threat to Great Britain and its allies, including the United States. Breaking the personnel, financial, and ideological links will require fighting terrorism on three fronts: Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Britain. In Afghanistan, the U.S., the U.K., and their allies need to continue to fight the Taliban and al-Qaeda. They should also hold Pakistan accountable for its failure to act decisively against terrorism. In Britain, the government needs to enforce the tightened immigration and asylum practices, refuse to cooperate with radical Islamism, and promote citizenship and economic opportunity to help immigrants assimilate into British society.
October 26, 2009
Islamist terrorist Plots in Great Britain: Uncovering the Global Network
By Ted R. Bromund, Ph.D and Morgan L. Roach
(Backgrounder #2329)
Individuals who traveled in Pakistan and received terrorist training there or in Afghanistan are a central part of the challenge of Islamist terrorism in Britain. Because al-Qaeda's strategy relies partly on using European nationals to carry out attacks against the United States, the rise of Islamist terrorism in Britain and Europe poses a serious danger to the U.S. and its allies in Europe and around the world.
October 15, 2009
The Obama Administration Makes the Wrong Call on the U.N.'s Arms Trade Treaty
By Ted R. Bromund, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #2653)
The Obama Administration must not allow the desire for a "consensus" to produce an ineffective U.N. arms control treaty that tramples American sovereignty.
September 28, 2009
How Margaret Thatcher Helped to End the Cold War
By Ted R. Bromund, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #2631)
On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, there are valuable lessons the West can learn from the Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher.
August 21, 2009
The U.N.'s Arms Trade Treaty: A Dangerous Multilateral Mistake in the Making
By Ted R. Bromund, Ph.D., and Steven Groves
(Backgrounder #2309)
The treaty contemplated by the U.N.'s October 2008 arms trade resolution would be a license to almost all states, no matter how irresponsible, to buy and sell arms. It would endanger U.S. arms export control policy, clash with the Constitution, offer a dangerous justification for dictatorial rule, and make it illegal under international law for the U.S. to support freedom fighters abroad.
August 21, 2009
Executive Summary: The U.N.'s Arms Trade Treaty: A Dangerous Multilateral Mistake in the Making
By Ted R. Bromund, Ph.D., and Steven Groves
(Executive Summary #2309)
The treaty contemplated by the U.N.'s October 2008 arms trade resolution would be a license to almost all states, no matter how irresponsible, to buy and sell arms. It would endanger U.S. arms export control policy, clash with the Constitution, offer a dangerous justification for dictatorial rule, and make it illegal under international law for the U.S. to support freedom fighters abroad.
July 13, 2009
The U.S.-U.K. Defense Trade Cooperation Treaty Merits Early Consideration
By Ted R. Bromund, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #2542)
The U.S.-U.K. Defense Trade Cooperation Treaty will advance American interests in several important areas.
June 12, 2009
The Obama-Berlusconi White House Meeting: Advancing U.S.-Italian Cooperation
By Ted R. Bromund, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #2483)
The U.S.-Italian relationship will continue to thrive only if it based, as it has been in the past, on a clear vision, held by both countries, of the importance of cooperative action against the enemies of their shared values.
May 28, 2009
Contracting Out in Defense: Lessons from the British Experience for the U.S. and Great Britain
By Ted R. Bromund, Ph.D.
(Backgrounder #2278)
Contracting out is an important instrument and should to be employed effectively. The British method of financing it has encouraged the growth of the state while creating risks and perverse incentives. The U.S. and Britain should each learn from the other's experience about when to employ contracting out, how to fund it, how to design suitable programs, and how to improve its efficiency.
May 28, 2009
Executive Summary: Contracting Out in Defense: Lessons from the British Experience for the U.S. and Great Britain
By Ted R. Bromund, Ph.D.
(Executive Summary #2278)
Contracting out is an important instrument and should to be employed effectively. The British method of financing it has encouraged the growth of the state while creating risks and perverse incentives. The U.S. and Britain should each learn from the other's experience about when to employ contracting out, how to fund it, how to design suitable programs, and how to improve its efficiency.
May 28, 2009
President Obama's Visit to Germany: Mythologies of Dresden Must Be Rejected
By Ted R. Bromund, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #2460)
On June 5, President Obama will visit the German city of Dresden. The President must avoid giving any credence whatsoever to efforts to equate the Western Allies and the Nazis, or the air war and the Holocaust.
April 27, 2009
State Department Legal Adviser Nominee Harold Koh: Questions on the Role of International Law in the U.S. Legal System
By Steven Groves and Ted R. Bromund, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #2414)
President Obama has nominated Harold Koh to be the next Legal Adviser, which is the top legal position at the U.S. Department of State. While Koh has had a distinguished career in government service and legal academia, his views raise serious national security and constitutional questions.
April 10, 2009
The G-20 Summit: Mistakes and Missed Opportunities
By Ted R. Bromund , Ph.D.
(WebMemo #2392)
The G-20 Summit in London promised to bring together the heads of the world’s leading nations to address the global financial crisis. Instead, the summit agreed on measures that are by turn weak, vague, and sinister.
March 31, 2009
The Past, Present, and Possible Futures of the Anglo-American Alliance
By Ted R. Bromund, Ph.D.
(Heritage Lecture #1116)
In Winston Churchill’s vision, the U.S.-British relationship must and would endure because both are liberal, English-speaking democracies. If Britain is being Europeanized, the U.S. could stay closer to it by Europeanizing itself, but to adopt this vision would be a tremendous defeat for the assertive, liberal values that lay at the heart of Churchill’s vision and on which the Anglo-American alliance was founded.
March 30, 2009
The Implications of the European Contribution to the Global Financial Crisis for the G-20 Summit
By Ted R. Bromund, Ph.D., and Daniella Markheim
(WebMemo #2369)
The story that Europe is telling about the global financial crisis is untrue: The crisis is not simply the fault of the United States.
March 20, 2009
The G-20 Summit: Potential Threats to U.S. Interests
By Ted R. Bromund, Ph.D. and J. D. Foster, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #2352)
The G-20 should find common ground on defending free trade, opposing further unwise government spending, and reforms to the banking sector that are designed and implemented to achieve financial, not political, goals.
March 18, 2009
Why the United States Should Not Join the Inter-Parliamentary Union
By Ted R. Bromund , Ph.D.
(WebMemo #2348)
The United States should not join the IPU. To do so would imply the IPU is a respectable international organization, not the friend of dictatorships and the enemy of liberal values and democratic sovereignty it has sadly become.
March 04, 2009
The United Kingdom Must Lead Europe's Withdrawal from the U.N.'s Durban Review Conference
By Ted R. Bromund , Ph.D., and Steven Groves
(WebMemo #2324)
The United Kingdom must withdraw from Durban II immediately and unconditionally and supply the leadership in action that has so far been lacking in Europe.
February 27, 2009
Barack Obama and Gordon Brown Must Strengthen U.S.–U.K. Defense Cooperation
By Ted R. Bromund, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #2315)
Both President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Gordon Brown should acknowledge the shared values and interests that are at stake and act to continue this indispensable collaboration.
February 18, 2009
The Brown Government Should Stop Mortgaging the Future of Britain's Defenses
By Ted R. Bromund, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #2298)
The danger facing the U.K. Ministry of Defence is clear: Either the troops in the field will have to go without necessary equipment paid for by UOR, or the MoD’s budget will have to be cut even more sharply in the coming years.
February 02, 2009
The Stealth Nationalization of Britain's Economy Must Be Reversed
By Ted R. Bromund, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #2260)
As a result of the stealth nationalization of its economy, large portions of Britain are now almost completely dependent upon government spending.
January 16, 2009
President Bush Is Right to Recognize the Value—and Values—of the Anglosphere
By Ted R. Bromund
(WebMemo #2230)
On January 13, President Bush presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom to former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, former Australian Prime Minister John Howard, and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe. In honoring Blair and Howard, President Bush recognized the broader ties between the English-speaking nations of the world, known collectively as the Anglosphere.
2008 Research
December 11, 2008
Britain's Armed Forces: Victorious Abroad, Imperiled at Home
By Ted R. Bromund, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #2166)
The British budget crisis threatens severe harm to Britain's armed forces and the strength of the NATO alliance. Britain and the United States must not allow the present crisis to induce them to make decisions that will hurt either nation, and thereby weaken the democratic world for decades to come.
November 18, 2008
British Defense Cuts Threaten the Anglo-American Special Relationship
By Ted R. Bromund, Ph.D.
(Backgrounder #2210)
The Blair and Brown governments have reduced British defense spending as a share of GDP to its lowest point since 1933. The forces are being ordered to do more with less. The U.S. should expand joint development and production deals with Britain to assist British efforts to rebuild its forces and to ward off European efforts to ensnare Britain in an enhanced ESDP.
November 18, 2008
Executive Summary: British Defense Cuts Threaten the Anglo-American Special Relationship
By Ted R. Bromund, Ph.D.
(Executive Summary #2210)
The Blair and Brown governments have reduced British defense spending as a share of GDP to its lowest point since 1933. The forces are being ordered to do more with less. The U.S. should expand joint development and production deals with Britain to assist British efforts to rebuild its forces and to ward off European efforts to ensnare Britain in an enhanced ESDP.
September 29, 2008
The Defense Trade Cooperation Treaties with the United Kingdom and Australia Advance the American Interest
By Ted R. Bromund, Ph.D
(WebMemo #2090)
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) announced last week that it was delaying consideration of bilateral defense trade cooperation treaties between the United States and the United Kingdom, and between the U.S. and Australia. The SFRC and the Administration must work together to resolve the concerns that led to this delay, and the SFRC must give early consideration to both treaties.
November 23, 2009
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