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.

The question of what enables some militaries to innovate effectively is of great interest to both scholars and commanders. However, the traditional models of military innovation fail to capture the complex innovation process.

Kenneth P. Green discusses the limits of renewable and alternative fuels for providing energy security, or energy independence.

We are not in a cold war with China. That is too simple a metaphor to describe the state of Sino-American relations.

American Enterprise Institute (AEI) introduces the new Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies, made possible by a generous gift from the former U.S. Ambassador to Finland and AEI trustee, Marilyn Ware. The new center greatly enhances the capacity of AEI to address security and defense issues affecting American interests around the world.

Ukraine has a convincing claim for U.S. support. Ukraine voluntarily gave up what would have been the world"s third-largest nuclear arsenal in 1994. Through fully contested presidential elections in 2004 and the legitimate transfer of power to the winning candidate, Ukraine showed that it belongs to the Euro-Atlantic community.

In short, for all the differences that exist between the United States and the states of Europe, and for all the personal clashes between heads of state and government on both sides of the Atlantic, Europe matters to America, and America to Europe, because converging concerns, compatible values, and overlapping interests make of each the other"s partner of choice.