Under current law, the U.S. Department of Defense automatically faces significant spending cuts over the next 10 years—cuts that america's civilian and military leaders have cadidly described as "devastating" and "very high risk."

This event discussed the current state of U.S. counterterrorism policy and what can be done to address emerging threats to our security.

AEI's Vice President of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies Danielle Pletka writes that the hype over every detail in the latest leak from WikiLeaks and Julian Assange distracts from the serious implications of the security breach itself.

Holding hostage the debt ceiling--meaning the full faith and credit of the United States to pay obligations incurred in the past by this Congress and its predecessors--threatening to take the risk of creating a depression or at least a serious recession unless all one's demands are met, is simply reckless.

Frenzy over every detail of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange distracts us from the serious implications of this security breach. The Obama administration must ask hard questions about the alleged Bradley Manning leak or Obama's credibility will be at stake.

Obama has managed to do what no Republican president ever could: destroy the War Powers Act. In a riot of irresponsibility and hypocrisy, Republicans are racing to embrace a law they've long reviled just so they can, accurately, charge Obama with irresponsibility and hypocrisy.

Although no country has a perfect record, a new volume from AEI Press shows that strengthening and expanding domestic security policies has not undermined the United States and Europe's shared commitment to democracy and liberty.

The Iranian enrichment deal indicates that efforts by the Obama administration to stop Iran's nuclear program have failed and further emphasizes that the UN Security Council is gridlocked and impotent.