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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.
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1 week ago | 
aei.org | Mackenzie Eaglen |Brady Africk |John Ferrari |Todd Harrison
Op-Ed The U.S. Can’t Handle a War Op-Ed Political Leaders Need to Stop Standing in the Way of Defense Innovation Press Defense & Aerospace Daily Podcast [Aug 27, 24] AEI’s Todd Harrison Report American Enterprise Institute Beyond Monopsony: Pentagon Reform in the Information Age Post The Defense Policy Turducken Podcast WTH Is Going on 20 Years After 9/11? An Afghanistan War Veteran Who Lost His Dad in the Twin Towers Remembers Post Presidential Unity and the Afghanistan Disaster Article...
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Todd Harrison |John Ferrari
The Department of Defense was created in the immediate aftermath of World War II to fight and win America’s wars. It has evolved over time through mission creep and congressional action, driven by a philosophy of centralization that has added tangled layers of bureaucracy that negatively impact warfighter readiness. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth appears aware of this — he has directed the bureaucracy to present him with “future-state organization charts” — but he lacks a guiding philosophy.
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1 month ago | 
aei.org | John Ferrari |Todd Harrison
Several forces acting on the Pentagon this year could fundamentally improve its organization, weapons procurement, operational support, and personnel management.
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1 month ago | 
aei.org | Vincent Smith |Barry K. Goodwin |Todd Harrison |Nat Malkus
The recent outbreak of the highly infectious avian flu has disrupted agricultural markets and sent egg prices soaring, raising critical economic and public health concerns. Join AEI’s Barry K. Goodwin and Vincent H. Smith with industry and academic experts for an insightful discussion as they explore potential solutions, policy responses, and strategies to mitigate this and future animal health crises. Submit questions to or on X with #AskAEIEcon.
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1 month ago | 
aei.org | With Nat Malkus |Nat Malkus |Todd Harrison |Scott Winship
In June 2023, an Oklahoma charter school board approved the nation’s first religious charter school, St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School. In spring 2025, the US Supreme Court will consider whether a religious charter school violates the separation of church and state, or if denying a charter application because the school is Catholic constitute illegal religious discrimination. The case raises a host of education policy questions.
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1 month ago | 
thehill.com | Todd Harrison |John Ferrari
In the early 1990s, the Department of Defense made a pivotal decision that has shaped American defense production for decades. Then-Secretary of Defense Les Aspin’s infamous “Last Supper” meeting with defense industry leaders signaled that the end of the Cold War would mean a drastic reduction in military spending and that industry consolidation was required. This move, reminiscent of Britain’s post-war industrial policies, has led to an inefficient and uncompetitive defense sector.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Todd Harrison |John Ferrari
In the early 1990s, the Department of Defense made a pivotal decision that has shaped American defense production for decades. Then-Secretary of Defense Les Aspin’s infamous “Last Supper” meeting with defense industry leaders signaled that the end of the Cold War would mean a drastic reduction in military spending and that industry consolidation was required. This move, reminiscent of Britain’s post-war industrial policies, has led to an inefficient and uncompetitive defense sector.
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2 months ago | 
aei.org | John Ferrari |Todd Harrison
Four forces acting on the Pentagon this year could fundamentally improve its organization, weapons procurement, operational support, and personnel management.
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2 months ago | 
yahoo.com | John Ferrari |Todd Harrison
The Department of Defense is about to undergo a fundamental shift in its organization and how it buys weapons, provides operational support to warfighters and employs its people. The Pentagon has previously been very difficult to change. But now, the pressure from President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency could force needed reform.
