Under current law, the U.S. Department of Defense automatically faces significant spending cuts over the next 10 years—cuts that america's civilian and military leaders have cadidly described as "devastating" and "very high risk."

With popular revolts toppling long-standing Arab dictatorships, Obama wants to know why the intelligence community was once again taken by surprise.

We are in bad need of intelligence reform, but Dennis Blair, the director of national intelligence, is too far removed from the agencies that might need changing.

When he was director of central intelligence, Leon Panetta earned a reputation as an energetic advocate for his agency. When he replaced Robert Gates at the Pentagon, it was reasonable to hope that Panetta would continue to play the role of a senior statesman.

The 9/11 Commission's legacy when it comes to intelligence analysis may be much different from what the Commission intends.

For Barack Obama’s supporters on the left, to say his policy choices have been a disappointment would be an understatement. Explaining how this came about is Jack Goldsmith’s provocative new book.

In Safety, Liberty, and Islamist Terrorism: American and European Approaches to Domestic Counterterrorism, AEI national security policy scholar Gary J. Schmitt leads a team of security and intelligence experts in a comparison of counterterrorism strategies used by the United Kingdom, France, Spain and Germany.

The “strategic guidance” announced this week from the commander in chief to the Department of Defense is, make no mistake about it, an order to retreat.