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Reconciling More Spending on Defense with Long-Term Fiscal Stability
James Capretta’s chapter from Affording Defense: Investing in American Strength to Confront a More Dangerous World (American Enterprise Institute,2025),edited by Mackenzie Eaglen. To download this and...
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How Much Is Too Much?
Todd Harrison’s chapter from Affording Defense: Investing in American Strength to Confront a More Dangerous World (American Enterprise Institute,2025),edited by Mackenzie Eaglen. To download this and...
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A Large Fleet Is the Foundation of Readiness
Recently, a top Marine called the service’s amphibious ship shortfall the “single biggest existential threat” to the Marine Corps—and for good reason. Combatant commanders are repeatedly discovering...
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Why the US Military Should Plan for Human-Level AI
My fellow pro-growth Up Wingers, When German physicists split the atom in 1938, the historic event’s military implications were crystal clear to scientists across the Atlantic. That moment of...
View ArticleStopping the Federal Waste from Temporary Funding
The American tax payer is losing up to $103 million per day in defense buying power—meaning the funding that should be available for defense priorities is not. The clock on this loss started on...
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Embracing Space Force Exceptionalism
Todd Harrison’s chapter from Affording Defense: Investing in American Strength to Confront a More Dangerous World (American Enterprise Institute, 2025), edited by Mackenzie Eaglen. To download this...
View ArticleDiscussing American civil-military relations: Schake at Carnegie Mellon...
As political leaders strive to implement new policies affecting the armed forces, they must carefully navigate the balance of power that underlines this crucial relationship. Dr. Kori Schake explores...
View ArticleLess Paperwork, More Firepower: Fixing the Pentagon’s HR Overload
As DOGE chainsaws its way through Washington bureaucracy, good ideas that have been on the shelf awaiting action deserve a re-look. As my AEI colleague Todd Harrison and I said previously, the...
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