Kori Schake
Before joining AEI, Schake was the deputy director general of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. She has worked at the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Department of Defense, and the National Security Council at the White House. She has also taught at Stanford, West Point, Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, National Defense University, and the University of Maryland. Schake is the author of five books, among them America vs. the West: Can the Liberal World Order Be Preserved? and Safe Passage: The Transition From British to American Hegemony.
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Getty / The Atlantic Biden’s Loose Lips Make the Nuclear Threat Worse
The president’s rhetoric will encourage Putin to test American resolve.
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Alessio Mamo / Guardian / eyevin / Redux Ukrainian Success Will Not Be Catastrophic
We’re the strong ones in this conflict, and we deter more effectively when we act with confidence on that knowledge.
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The Atlantic The White House Is Getting Defense Wrong
The Biden administration’s latest budget request has overshot the target, in the wrong way.
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Sean Gallup / Getty Putin Accidentally Revitalized the West’s Liberal Order
The Russian president thought he sensed an opportunity to take advantage of a disunited West. He has been proved wrong.
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Sergei Supinsky / AFP / Getty Russia’s Aggression Against Ukraine Is Backfiring
Putin’s military moves are rallying Ukrainians and unifying NATO.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP What Working for Colin Powell Taught Me
The former general and ex–secretary of state made hard work fun.
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Shah Marai / AFP / Getty Why the Afghan Army Folded
America has historically struggled to train foreign militaries.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic Why Isn’t the Military Mandating COVID-19 Vaccines?
Service members need to be protected against the coronavirus. This isn’t a close call.
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Al Drago / Bloomberg / Getty What Is Happening to Our Apolitical Military?
Remarks by America’s most senior military officer mark the latest step in the continued erosion of relations between the armed forces and their civilian leaders.
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The Atlantic / Chip Somodevilla / Getty Biden Brings More Class Warfare to Foreign Policy
The president’s version of “America First” echoes Trump’s misunderstanding of how the modern economy works.
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Carsten Koall / Getty The U.S. Doesn’t Know How to Treat Its Allies
If Biden wants to counter China, the U.S. needs to make some sacrifices.
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Adam Maida The U.S. Puts Its Greatest Vulnerability on Display
Runaway partisanship endangers the United States more than foreign enemies do.
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WANA / REUTERS The Disastrous Idea That Won’t Go Away
Trump might be tempted to order a military attack on Iran, because his “maximum pressure” campaign failed to thwart that country’s nuclear program.
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Mark Wilson / Getty Trump’s Pettiness Is the Simplest Explanation
The postelection shake-up at the Pentagon has raised alarms in the national-security world, but Trump’s likeliest motive is plain old spite.
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Getty / Paul Spella / The Atlantic The Military Doesn’t Want to Get Involved
Political partisans are trying to benefit from the armed forces’ popularity. But America’s most trusted institution got that way by staying out of civilian affairs.
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Eric Lee This Upheaval Is How America Gets Better
What’s happening right now is the way the U.S. corrects its own wrongs.
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Getty / The Atlantic Biden’s Bad Foreign-Policy Ideas
The former vice president lacks a consistent philosophy of when and how to use military force.
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John Moore / Getty America’s Built-in Protection Against Bad Leadership
For all its failures, the U.S. has structural advantages over rival powers—and will come out of the pandemic even stronger.
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Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty The Imperial Presidency Comes to a Sudden Halt
Trump’s hands-off approach to the coronavirus is in keeping with the Founders’ original vision—and is occurring at precisely the wrong time.
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Gary Hershorn / Getty The Damage That ‘America First’ Has Done
A self-interested strategy will not help the U.S. fight the coronavirus outbreak.
