AEI Defense Policy: Experts, highlights, and headlines

Defense scholars

Thomas Donnelly Co-Director, Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies Research areas: Defense, National security

 

Mackenzie Eaglen Resident Fellow Research areas: Military readiness, Defense budget, Military personnel, Defense industrial base

 

Phillip Lohaus Research Fellow Research areas: US and foreign intelligence [capabilities], Middle Eastern and South Asian insurgencies

 

Roger I. Zakheim Research Fellow Research areas: National security legal issues, Impact of Congress on defense

Gary Schmitt Co-Director, Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies Research areas: Intelligence, Europe, National security, American citizenship

 

William Inglee Visiting Fellow Research areas: Building partner capacity, Business of defense, National security policy

 

Jim Talent Senior Fellow, Director, National Security 2020 Project Research areas: Congress, US-China security relations

Headlines and Highlights

Snowden wins again
Gary Schmitt, The Weekly Standard
The federal government’s handling of the legal and political issues surrounding NSA meta-data collection has not been a pretty picture. Somewhere in Russia, Edward Snowden is probably smiling.

‘Diplomacy alone won’t stop the Chinese from asserting sovereignty over the South China Sea
Jim Talent, National Review Online
The balance of power in the South China Sea is shifting towards the Chinese. Meanwhile, the US government has been dismantling the deterrent power on which the stability of the region depends.

The military needs more than temporary budget fixes
Mackenzie Eaglen, AEIdeas
One year Band-Aids on defense spending won’t give the military what it needs.

Bring back CENTO?
Thomas Donnelly, The Weekly Standard
If the next president wishes to restore American standing in the Middle East, which President Obama has so steeply devalued, he or she might consider revisiting the idea of a formal security agreement with the Sunni states.

Short of war: How America’s competitors chip away at its traditional military might
Phillip Lohaus, National Interest
The time has come for American political and military leaders alike to take a hard look at the way the United States counters threats outside of traditional wartime environments.

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