War is fundamentally a human activity, and attempts to remove humans from its center--as recent trends and current programs do--are likely to lead to disaster.

Over the next two to three decades, India’s demographic composition will have a significant impact on the country’s economic and strategic capabilities. NBR spoke with expert demographer Nicholas Eberstadt about what India’s population profile will likely look like and how it compares to another major state in the region, China.

In many of today's important "emerging markets," demographic pressures may constrain economic growth more significantly than people may think.

In a recent working paper, World Population Prospects and the Global Economic Outlook, AEI political economist and demographer Nicholas Eberstadt examines global demographic prospects up to 2030 and assesses the impact that these population trends will have on the world's economic performance.

How can the nation achieve "welfare reform for men"?

Despite increasingly tough talk about the importance of Asia, the Obama administration’s preview of its fiscal year 2013 defense budget proves that it is a “pivot” in name only. 

President Obama today unveiled a new national defense strategy  creating a "leaner"  force that Secretary of Defense Panetta allows will create "some level of additional but acceptable risk."  Moving away from the traditional two war strategy, and hinting at substantial reductions in Europe, the President presented a dramatic shift in global posture for the United States.