The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor. We maintain our strength in order to deter and defend against aggression - to preserve freedom and peace.

What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that their security did not rest upon the threat of instant U.S. retaliation to deter a Soviet attack, t…

Some people work an entire lifetime and wonder if they ever made a difference to the world. But the Marines don't have that problem.

Abraham Lincoln freed the black man. In many ways, Dr. King freed the white man. How did he accomplish this tremendous feat? Where others - white and black - p…

Ron Paul: We are escalating our sharp rhetoric toward Iran, We're deploying additonal carrier group and Patriot missiles to the region. And, although Iran has …

Throughout history civilian populations and political rulers have talked of peace. We have never been free of war. The soldier, whose profession is war, unders…

The only way there could be war is if they start it; we're not going to start a war.