Kori Schake

Washington, D.C., United States

Director of Foreign at American Enterprise Institute

Director of foreign/defense @AEI, author of Safe Passage, contributing writer at The Atlantic and War on the Rocks. Californian. RT = said better than I could.

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Defense strategy Archives

2 days ago | aei.org | Kori Schake |Yvonne Chiu |John Ferrari |Mara E. Karlin

Article A New Conservative Foreign Policy Book Beginning the End Podcast The Inheritance: America’s Military After Two Decades of War Op-Ed How Pete Hegseth Is Streamlining the Pentagon Op-Ed Russia and China’s Military Production Surge: Why the U.S. Military Is Alarmed Podcast The State of U.S. Military Readiness: Eaglen on Breaking Battlegrounds Podcast Post The Wrong Signals: The Proper Role of a Defense Secretary Post The Ladder of AI Escalation Multimedia Trump’s Transactional Foreign...
Defense and national security Archives

3 days ago | aei.org | Todd Harrison |Kori Schake |John Ferrari

Working Paper Space Force Personnel Reform: Costs, Impact, and Implementation Multimedia What’s America Without Allies? With Kori Schake Working Paper Decentralizing the Department of Defense: Reorganizing to Empower the Warfighters Op-Ed Signalgate Is Bad.
Tag Archive: Defense Policy

1 week ago | aei.org | John Ferrari |Colin Dueck |Kori Schake

Post Reconciliation: A Consequential Attempt to Rebuild Our Military Event Canadian Election Recap: Results and Foreign Policy Implications Multimedia What’s America Without Allies?
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Archives

1 week ago | aei.org | Jim Harper |Kori Schake |John Fortier |Donald E. Palmer

Press Discussing REAL ID implementation: Harper on WBUR’s ‘On Point’ Post Which is in Collapse? Administrative Law or REAL ID?
In Brief: Foreign Policy Surprises in Trump’s First 100 Days

2 weeks ago | warontherocks.com | Kori Schake |Patricia M. Kim |Max Bergmann |Alex Vatanka

Today marks the 100th day of Donald Trump’s second presidential administration. We asked five foreign policy and national security experts: What has surprised you most about Trump’s first 100 days? Read more below. Kori Schake Senior Fellow and Director of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies American Enterprise Institute The biggest surprise of Trump’s second term is the administration’s over-estimation of American power.
Discussing new Signalgate revelations: Schake on PBS’ ‘PBS News Hour’

3 weeks ago | aei.org | Kori Schake

Senior Fellow and Director of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies Kori Schake discusses new Signalgate revelations on PBS’ ‘PBS News Hour.’
General Caine Acquitted Himself

1 month ago | aei.org | Kori Schake |Tanner Nalley

Today the Senate Armed Services Committee held a confirmation hearing for Lieutenant General Dan Caine, President Trump’s underqualified nominee to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Trump has publicly extolled that when they met, General Caine donned a MAGA hat and effused that he would give his life for Donald Trump. The only question that was going to matter for Caine’s confirmation was “Did you wear it and did you say it?” Senator Wicker asked it in the first round of questioning.
The Wrong Signals: The Proper Role of a Defense Secretary

1 month ago | aei.org | Kori Schake |Julia Cataneo

As the furor over the Atlantic story boiled, Secretary Hegseth stepped off the plane and flat denied that he had done anything wrong. He impugned the integrity of the journalist even after the White House had acknowledged the veracity of the story. A day later, Secretary Hegseth defended his use of the unclassified commercial platform for real-time operational information by saying “My job, as it said, on top of that, everybody’s seen it now.
WTH? A European Supreme Allied Commander of NATO? Kori Schake Explains

1 month ago | aei.org | Danielle Pletka |Marc Thiessen |Kori Schake

President Trump is reportedly considering abandoning America’s longstanding role commanding NATO forces as Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), changing the U.S. combatant command structure, and canceling modernization plans for U.S. Forces Japan. While it’s true that Europe needs to step up to the plate on its own defense needs, abandoning the SACEUR position would place U.S. troops under foreign command, give Washington less leverage over our allies, and weaken deterrence.
Will Trump Reshape the American Military

2 months ago | aei.org | Kori Schake

Last month, the Trump administration carried out a large-scale firing of senior military leaders, including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the chief of Naval operations, the vice chief of staff of the Air Force, and the top military lawyers from the Army, Navy, and Air Force.