Mackenzie Eaglen is a defense policy analyst at the American Enterprise Institute, where she focuses on defense strategy, military readiness, and the defense budget. She contributed articles to The Weekly Standard examining U.S. military spending, seapower, and force readiness challenges.
There were plenty of worries that President Trump’s "America First" campaigning signaled a further retreat of American power and leadership abroad—a worry not mitigated either by his Inaugural Address or his speech before Congress, in which foreign and defense policy were given short shrift. Those…
As the sequester sinks in and starts to hit the U.S. military, many have focused on the impact of unpaid furlough days for civilians, air shows grounded, and fireworks foregone.