The Cold War is an increasingly distant memory in American military minds, except in the minds of the arms control community, and in particular those who seek the elimination of nuclear weapons. Alas, our president is a member in good standing of this community—indeed, an organizer.So, too, it...

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

We cannot fully appreciate the psychic burden of ordering into harm's way men and women whom you see in front of you.

Both Senators JohnMcCain and Barack Obama have had a chance to test out the job of commander in chief. Who scored the highest?

Rep. Paul Ryan calls his budget plan the “Path to Prosperity,” but it could be termed as well a “Path to Security.” In reclaiming more than $200 billion of the nearly $500 billion in military cuts made in last year’s Budget Control Act (BCA), the House Budget Committee chairman takes national security more seriously than does our commander in chief.

In a new report on the troubling future of the U.S. Air Force, AEI defense scholar Mackenzie Eaglen examines how the defense cuts cripple air power as a component of our defense system and explains why serious investment in the Air Force is crucial to U.S. military strategy.

AEI's Danielle Pletka, vice president of foreign and defense policy studies explains in a new post why these negotiations are destined to fail and a new report by AEI Iran expert Ali Alfoneh on Iranian Brigadier General Gholamreza Baghbani, the current chief of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Quds Force (IRGC QF) office in Zahedan, and a narcotics trafficker.

In a unique collaboration, the American Enterprise Institute, the Center for a New American Security and the New America Foundation are pleased to invite you to the next event in the "Election 2012: The National Security Agenda" series in this presidential campaign season.