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In this edited volume, Mackenzie Eaglen brings together top foreign and defense policy voices in Washington to address the ever-growing resource-strategic mismatch evident in US defense policy. This project is designed to provide the administration with immediate and realistic solutions to bolster America's military and restore its flagging strategic and conventional deterrents.

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Mackenzie Eaglen is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where she works on defense strategy, defense budgets, and military readiness. She is the cochairman of the National Commission on the Future of the Navy and sits on both the Army Science Board and the Army War College Board of Visitors. Kyle Balzer is a Jeane Kirkpatrick Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on great-power competition, US grand strategy, long-term strategic competition, US nuclear strategy and policy, and arms control. He specializes in Cold War nuclear strategy and the evolution of American deterrence theory. Dan Blumenthal is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the author of The China Nightmare: The Grand Ambitions of a Decaying State (2020). Hal Brands is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he studies US foreign policy and defense strategy. Concurrently, he is the Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He is also a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. James C. Capretta is a senior fellow and holds the Milton Friedman Chair at the American Enterprise Institute, where he studies health care, entitlement programs, and fiscal trends in advanced economies. Zack Cooper is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he studies US defense strategy and allies in Asia. He also teaches at Princeton University and is the author of Tides of Fortune: The Rise and Decline of Great Militaries (2025). Giselle Donnelly is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the author of Empire Imagined: The Personality of American Power (2022) and The Fourth Kingdom (forthcoming), the first two books in a four-volume series on the personality of American power. John G. Ferrari is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where his work focuses on the defense budget, defense reform and acquisition, and the US military. He is a retired major general and former director of program analysis and evaluation for the Army. Rebecca Grant is a national security analyst based in Washington, DC, and vice president of the Lexington Institute. She graduated from Wellesley College and earned a PhD in international relations from the London School of Economics at the University of London. Todd Harrison is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on defense strategy and budgeting, the defense industrial base, and space policy and security. Frederick W. Kagan is a senior fellow and the director of the Critical Threats Project at the American Enterprise Institute. James Mattis is a retired US Marine Corps General and former Secretary of Defense. Elaine McCusker is the former acting under secretary of defense for comptroller. She is now a senior fellow at AEI, where she focuses on defense strategy, budget, and innovation; the United States military; and national security. Her background is in defense planning and budgeting, military campaign assessments, defense data analytics, contingency operations, and science and technology. She has substantial experience in resolving complex strategic and tactical-level challenges, including those with international dimensions. Kori Schake is a senior fellow and the director of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Michael R. Strain is the Arthur F. Burns Scholar in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute. Dustin Walker is a nonresident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. In addition to his private sector work at Anduril Industries, he recently served on the staff of the Commission on the National Defense Strategy. Before joining AEI, he was a professional staff member on the Senate Armed Services Committee and an adviser to Senator John McCain.

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