AEI’s Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies will host Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter for a timely discussion of U.S. defense budgets, of the changing strategic landscape in the U.S. and the force that this landscape demands.

Obama’s decision to block the building of the Keystone pipeline on the grounds that the Congress — in a bipartisan vote — didn’t give the bureaucrats enough time to study the issue is akin to Leslie Groves accepting that he couldn’t have his silver because he failed to ask for it in troy ounces.

If the Obama administration succeeds in its plans to cut defense further, that percentage will drop to 3 percent or lower--the lowest total in the whole of the post-World War II era. But first, members of Congress and the American taxpayer want answers from Leon Panetta.

Will the new Congress challenge the Obama administration's foreign and defense policies? And, if it does, will it do so in the name of strengthening and preserving American global leadership, or not?

AEI's annual compilation of polling data on the environment, key issues and findings

Barack Obama’s presidency has had profoundly negative consequences for our national security. From debilitating cuts in defense budgets, to gutting national missile defense efforts, to his unwillingness to acknowledge a continuing war against terrorism, to his inability to stem the nuclear proliferation threats posed by North Korea and Iran....the picture is bleak.