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

Defense bill at an impasse, but a solution is within reach
Jim Talent, Mackenzie Eaglen, The Hill
The Senate’s plan to pair moderate TRICARE co-pay increases with flexible military retirement should move forward.

The real danger of political correctness
Thomas Donnelly, Strategika
The widening gap in civil-military relations is almost entirely due to changes on the civilian side of the equation. The more the plague of political correctness divides the rest of us into ever-smaller tribes, the more the military tribe will see itself as unique and—dangerously—uniquely virtuous.

The intelligence community should build public trust, not just transparency
Phillip Lohaus, Overt Action
What’s driving calls for greater transparency isn’t ill will toward intelligence professionals or even curiosity: rather, it’s a lack of trust.

5 questions every presidential candidate should answer: US military edition
Mackenzie Eaglen, AEIdeas
The next president will make choices about the US military that will define American hard power for much of the 21st century.

Lassitude in the legislature on Iran
Thomas Donnelly, The Hoover Institution
Congress’s unwillingness to stand up to the administration on the Iran nuclear deal continues its retreat from a serious role in US strategy making. Legislators need to summon the energy and will to challenge this deal before it is too late.

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