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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The American Enterprise Institute's Council of Academic Advisers honors General David H. Petraeus, recipient of the Institute's 2010 Irving Kristol Award. The Irving Kristol Award is presented to an individual who has made extraordinary intellectual or practical contributions to improved government policy,...

A pocos iraquíes, y a pocos árabes, les gustan los iraníes. Pero tras la salida de EE UU, los iraníes han pasado a ser la fuerza más poderosa en la región, así que los políticos que quieren sobrevivir se afanan por tejer alianzas con Teherán.