In "Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II," Pulitzer Prize finalist Arthur Herman describes how the U.S. won history’s greatest conflict by harnessing free market principles and private-sector creativity and innovation to increase war production.

This bookexplores a problem that has been building quietly for years: the military has been expending without expanding or even replacing what has been spent.

Press release/summary for the book Of Men and Materiel, editedby Gary J. Schmitt and Thomas Donnelly.

Our military commitments demand substantial increases in defense spending.

More than three decades after the Revolution of 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran Army and the IRGC remain entangled in a rivalry which the Army — should the hitherto trend continue — is bound to lose.

Merely monitoring Iran's foray into Latin America is the very least the United States must now do to frustrate Teheran's plans to threaten U.S. security and interests close to home.

The British surrender of Singapore to the Japanese in 1942 should be instructive to U.S. policymakers eyeing China’s rise. War isn’t inevitable, but history is full of surprises.

The following AEI scholars are available to discuss the budget announcement and its policy implications.