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Articles by Morton H Halperin
Restoring Congress’s National Security Powers
The separation of powers, a concept foundational to our democracy, is crumbling. The Framers sought to create a national government free from tyranny. Believing the accumulation of all powers in the same hands to be the very definition of tyranny, they deliberately limited presidential authority.
Opinion | What kind of boss gets the FBI to tap your home phone? Henry Kissinger.
Comment Save Morton H. Halperin served as a senior official in the Johnson, Nixon and Clinton administrations. Henry A. Kissinger and I were friends and colleagues at Harvard University. Soon after he agreed to serve as national security adviser to President-elect Richard M. Nixon in 1968, Kissinger asked me to work with him setting up and running the National Security Council. I eagerly accepted.
My reflections on Dan Ellsberg, a man who helped end a tragic war
To my sons and my grandchildren, Dan Ellsberg was funny, inquiring, an excellent magician — not a whistleblower. He was always eager to show off his newest trick and learn about the latest technology. Dan was constantly and deeply engaged in the issues of the day.
Rehabilitation for Torture at Guantanamo is a Moral and Legal Imperative
Filed under: Biden administration, Committee Against Torture, Convention Against Torture, detainee, detainee treatment, Ethics, Guantanamo, healthcare, Laws of War, Military Commissions, Russia-Ukraine War, SSCI Torture Report, torture On February 18, the Biden administration announced the conclusion of what Secretary of State Antony Blinken called a “careful analysis of the law and available facts”—that Russian forces have committed crimes against humanity in Ukraine.
The President and the Military
Sign in and save to read later Print this article Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Get a link Page url Request Reprint Permissions All Presidents are dependent on the permanent bureaucracies of government inherited from their predecessors. A President must have the information and analysis of options which the bureaucracies provide in order to anticipate problems and make educated choices.
The President and the Military
All Presidents are dependent on the permanent bureaucracies of government inherited from their predecessors. A President must have the information and analysis of options which the bureaucracies provide in order to anticipate problems and make educated choices. He must, in most cases, also have the coöperation of the bureaucracies to turn his decisions into governmental action.
Has Arms Control Worked?
A 1961 book by Thomas Schelling and Morton Halperin helped set the standards for arms control negotiations. For this special forum, the Bulletin asked prominent experts whether those standards are still valid in these promising, unsettling times, and whether arms control has met them.
Take Back: How Congress Can Reclaim Its Power
Early in the Clinton administration, I served on the National Security Council staff when former Rep. Howard Berman, a California Democrat, called me one day to tell me that the White House planned to oppose a bill that would exempt books and other media from trade embargoes. Berman was incredulous given that I had helped him draft this bill. I went to see President Bill Clinton’s deputy national security adviser, Sandy Berger.
Will Trump deliver on North Korea?
Many in Washington’s foreign policy elite and Democratic Party activists are contemptuous of President TrumpDonald John TrumpHouse committee believes it has evidence Trump requested putting ally in charge of Cohen probe: report Vietnamese airline takes steps to open flights to US on sidelines of Trump-Kim summit Manafort's attorneys say he should get less than 10 years in prison MORE’s ambition, for good reasons, to secure a nuclear deal with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un when they meet...
Are Sanctions Part of the Problem?
Unlike much of US policy towards North Korea, its sanctions strategy has remained constant. Particularly since 2016, its primary objective has been to create regime-threatening economic pressure on the DPRK. Washington has attempted to do this by denying the North opportunities to earn foreign exchange through the export of commodities or labor and reducing the import of petroleum or petroleum products.
Donald Trump’s Instincts Are Mostly Right on North Korea, His Advisors Are the Problem
Despite his reckless threats and taunts last year and his premature statement that there is no longer a North Korean nuclear threat made immediately after the Singapore Summit in June, President Trump has taken—mostly—sensible steps to reduce the risk of war and make possible the denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula. What’s more, is that he’s done so over the objections of his advisors, the Republicans and Democrats in Congress, and Washington’s foreign policy establishment.
It is long past time to end unequal treatment of Okinawa over U.S. bases
When I first started working on the question of Okinawa reversion in the U.S. Department of Defense in 1966 I asked a senior naval officer to describe for me the American military bases on Okinawa. He replied that there were no military bases on the island. He explained: "Okinawa is a military base." He and his colleagues meant that literally. Okinawa had been under U.S. military rule for a long time after the end of World War II.
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