AEI’s Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies will host Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter for a timely discussion of U.S. defense budgets, of the changing strategic landscape in the U.S. and the force that this landscape demands.

Though we certainly should not turn away from Haiti in its hour of need, we are deluding ourselves if we believe that we are not "interfering" in Haitian politics.

President Obama's drawdown of American troops opens the door for other NATO members to withdraw troops as well. In this way, the future of the Afghan War may rest with the chancelleries of Europe.

The COIN debate in the US is generally presented as a choice between the two options- either we focus on the population, or on the enemy. But, there is a third way to conduct campaigns against sub-conventional enemies.

The debate in Washington about reducing America's deficit is gathering steam and there are increasing calls to make deep cuts in the defense budget.

If India and the United States are to achieve the level of partnership that defense officials in both countries have pledged to pursue, there may be no better means of doing so than for the Indian Air Force to add 126 U.S. fighters to its arsenal.