AEI resident scholar Mackenzie Eaglen was testifying Wednesday to the U.S. House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, in which she explained that the 2013 long-term shipbuilding plan "does not accurately portray the forces or funding necessary to execute the administration’s strategy."

Testimony before the House Armed Services Committee regarding the future of U.S. armed forces in light of the Pentagon's most recent Quadrennial Defense Review.

A list of scholars available to comment on the Quadrennial Defense Review.

The next Quadrennial Defense Review will reveal what lessons we have learned in the fight against terrorism.

Either the Navy is retiring these ships too early or its lifecycle estimates are hopelessly optimistic. But service leaders cannot have it both ways. Similarly, the administration cannot realistically “pivot” to Asia—a region defined by the “tyranny of distance”—and cut the fleet at the same time.

One of the most remarkable, indeed disturbing, elements of the current debate over how much should be cut from the defense budget is how little connection it has had to the country’s actual national security strategy.

The 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review Report (QDR) and the Fiscal Year 2011 defense budget proposal reveal a critical contradiction at the heart of the Obama administration's national security policy.

Senator Chambliss and others will discuss implications of Secretary Gates' proposed defense budget shifts.