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

US intelligence community warned of OPM hack
Mackenzie Eaglen, AEIdeas
The 2015 Worldwide Threat Assessment explicitly ranked the cyber and counterintelligence threat above that of terrorism.

Straying away from strength in numbers
Thomas Donnelly, Strategika
In both the Pacific and the Middle East, the United States needs to get right with Napoleon’s God and remember that big battalions—large military formations—win wars and deter enemies.

Why would the president threaten to veto much-needed additional defense funds?
Jim Talent, National Review Online
President Obama recognizes the need for more defense funding in principle, but is threatening to veto both the Defense Authorization and Appropriations Bills on the grounds that Congress is not also increasing non-defense spending. In other words, the president is holding defense hostage to his domestic-spending priorities.

How the threat of a military option against Iran lost its coercive power
Roger I. Zakheim, Ray Takeyh, The Wall Street Journal
Military force may not be the ideal solution to the Iran nuclear issue, but it is an indispensable backdrop to viable diplomacy.

Democrats and Europeans forget what NATO means
Gary J. Schmitt, AEIdeas
According to Pew, although the public in eight sampled NATO nations largely blame Russia, Putin, and the Ukrainian separatists for the security crisis in Eastern Europe, only the United States and Canada register a majority who would support responding with military force were Russia to attack a NATO ally.

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