By all accounts, General Welsh is perhaps the most respected leader in the Air Force today.

General David H. Petraeus will receive the 2010 Irving Kristol Award.

General David H. Petraeus received the 2010 Irving Kristol Award at AEI's Annual Dinner.

Everyone knows presidents have larger-than-life size egos. It goes with the job. But changes on the official White House website reveal that we've never had a self-regarding narcissist quite like the oval Office's current occupant.

The Obama administration refused to defend me against the lawsuit filed for José Padilla. Now even the liberal Ninth Circuit agrees the suit was frivolous.

Perhaps the most eventful news of the Obama administration’s shuffling of its national security deck chairs is the fact that General David Petraeus--commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, architect of the Iraq surge, and the driving force behind the Army’s willingness to adapt to the persistent irregular wars it’s been asked to fight rather than wait for the conventional conflict it would prefer to fight--will not become the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but be asked to run the CIA.

Thomas Donnelly, Director of AEI's Center for Defense Studies, is available to comment on Gen. David Petraeus's assessment of the situation in Afghanistan.

Along with replacing Secretary Gates, choosing a new chairman-the president's senior military adviser-will be among the most important decisions Obama will make. He needs the best advice, not his favorite advice.