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Working Paper

February 20, 2025

Getting Specific on DOGE Efficiencies: Opportunities for Defense

AEI Foreign and Defense Policy Working Paper Series

To fully understand the opportunities—particularly the positive pressure—that DOGE can bring, one should keep in mind three other forces in play: money, global leadership, and more players on the field supporting defense technology advancement.

By Elaine McCusker | John G. Ferrari | Todd Harrison

Defense, Foreign and Defense Policy

Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (L to R) listen as US President Donald Trump speaks about a collision involving an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter during a press briefing at the White House in Washington on January 30, 2025. Photo by Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Sipa USA(Sipa via AP Images)

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February 20, 2025

American Enterprise Institute

Innovating Future Power Systems: From Vision to Action

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February 20, 2025

AEIdeas

Trashing America’s Good Name

By Gary J. Schmitt

Op-Ed

February 20, 2025

Project Syndicate

How Trump Can Achieve Sustained Growth

By Michael R. Strain

America at 250

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Economics

Article

February 21, 2025

US District Court for the Northern District of California

Expert Declaration on the Impacts of Ending Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelans

By Stan Veuger | Tara Watson

Op-Ed

February 21, 2025

The Wall Street Journal

Trump’s Myth of the Trade Deficit

By Phil Gramm | Donald J. Boudreaux

Education

Post

February 21, 2025

AEIdeas

Running Down DOGE’s Department of Education Receipts

By Nat Malkus

Podcast

February 19, 2025

American Enterprise Institute

Credit Recovery (with Carolyn J. Heinrich)

By Nat Malkus | Carolyn J. Heinrich

Foreign and Defense Policy

Op-Ed

February 21, 2025

Hellas Journal

Give Greece Carrier-Killer Missiles: The West Should Take Turkey’s Ambitions Seriously

By Michael Rubin

Multimedia

February 21, 2025

Mark Leonard’s World in 30 Minutes

Hot and Cold Wars: How Eurasia Shaped the Modern Geopolitical World

Health Care

Press

February 21, 2025

CNBC

Discussing the new DOJ investigation into UnitedHealth Group’s Medicare billing practices: Gottlieb on CNBC’s ‘Squawk Box’

By Scott Gottlieb

Report

February 18, 2025

American Enterprise Institute

Family-Friendly Policies for the 119th Congress

Politics and Public Opinion

Op-Ed

February 21, 2025

The Washington Free Beacon

Trump’s First Month: Victory at Home, Danger Abroad

By Matthew Continetti

Op-Ed

February 20, 2025

National Review

Finally Regulating the Regulators

By Yuval Levin

Opportunity and Social Mobility

Report

February 21, 2025

Institute for Family Studies

Hope And A Future: Forging Strong And Stable Families In Ohio, 2025

By Brad Wilcox | Nicholas Zill | Amylynn Smith | Connie Huber

Article

February 20, 2025

Civitas

The American Dream Is Not a Coin Flip, and Wages Have Not Stagnated

By Scott Winship

Society and Culture

Op-Ed

February 19, 2025

The New Criterion

The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad “They”

By Joshua T. Katz

Op-Ed

February 19, 2025

The Wall Street Journal

This Is the House That Höss Built

By Tunku Varadarajan

Center for Technology, Science, and Energy

Post

February 21, 2025

AEIdeas

Haste Controls Waste! A Theory of Reform

By Jim Harper

Article

February 19, 2025

Knowledge Problem

Regional Transmission Organizations as Market Platforms IV

By L. Lynne Kiesling

Research Products

Report

February 21, 2025

Institute for Family Studies

Hope And A Future: Forging Strong And Stable Families In Ohio, 2025

By Brad Wilcox | Nicholas Zill | Amylynn Smith | Connie Huber

Report

February 21, 2025

Updated Warshawsky, Mantus, and Pang Model Projections: Analyzing the US Fiscal Outlook

By Mark J. Warshawsky | Giorgi Bokhua

Working Paper

February 20, 2025

AEI Foreign and Defense Policy Working Paper Series

Getting Specific on DOGE Efficiencies: Opportunities for Defense

By Elaine McCusker | John G. Ferrari | Todd Harrison

Report

February 20, 2025

American Enterprise Institute

Innovating Future Power Systems: From Vision to Action

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February 19, 2025

The Project on Workforce

Data and Technology in Action: Community Colleges Advancing Economic Mobility

By Joseph B. Fuller | Kerry McKittrick | Amanda Holloway

Working Paper

February 18, 2025

National Bureau of Economic Research

The (Un)Intended Consequences of Oil Sanctions Through the Dark Shipping of Sanctioned Oil

By Jesús Fernández-Villaverde | Xiwen Bai | Yiliang Li | Le Xu | Francesco Zanetti

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February 18, 2025

American Enterprise Institute

Family-Friendly Policies for the 119th Congress

Report

February 10, 2025

Hudson Institute

Required to Fail | Beyond Documents: Accelerating Joint Advantage through Direct Resourcing and Experimentation

By William C. Greenwalt | Dan Patt

Report

February 10, 2025

Aspen Institute

Policy Options to Address Consolidation in Healthcare Provider Markets

By Benedic N. Ippolito

Report

February 10, 2025

Institute for Family Studies

For Better: Four Proven Ways to a Strong and Stable Marriage

By Brad Wilcox | Jason S. Carroll | Jeffrey P. Dew

Articles & Op-Eds

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Op-Ed

February 17, 2025

The White House Counsel and the Adams Affair

Executive Functions

The problem revealed by the Adams episode implicates a major fault line running through this administration with the root of the problem not at 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, but rather at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

By Jack Landman Goldsmith | Bob Bauer

Constitution, Executive Branch, Legal and Constitutional, Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies

Op-Ed

February 15, 2025

The Armenian Mirror-Spectator

Will Azerbaijan Teach Somalia the Art of Genocide?

By Michael Rubin

Article

February 08, 2025

Faster, Please!

Up Wing/Down Wing #34

By James Pethokoukis

Article

February 14, 2025

Vox EU

Poverty During the Pandemic and the Role of Government Transfers

By Bruce D. Meyer | Jeehoon Han | James X. Sullivan

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John Adams, the Constitution, and the Constitution of Human Nature

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Are China’s International Test Scores Too Good to Be True?

In this web event, AEI’s Nat Malkus will host Dr. Eberstadt, Harry Patrinos of the University of Arkansas, and AEI’s Mark Schneider and Derek Scissors to discuss what these findings mean for China, the US, and their respective education systems.

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February 20, 2025

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Robert Doar

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Opportunity and Social Mobility

Senior Fellow; Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Public Policy; Director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies; and Editor in Chief, National Affairs

Yuval Levin

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Society and Culture

Arthur F. Burns Scholar in Political Economy
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Michael R. Strain

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Economics

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Kori Schake

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Foreign and Defense Policy

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Patrick and Charlene Neal Chair in American Prosperity

Matthew Continetti

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Politics and Public Opinion

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Yvonne Chiu

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Foreign and Defense Policy

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Thomas Smith

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Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies

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Will Rinehart

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Center for Technology, Science, and Energy

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Roger Pielke Jr.

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Center for Technology, Science, and Energy

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Audrye Wong

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Foreign and Defense Policy

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Kyle Balzer

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Foreign and Defense Policy

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Carole Hooven

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Paul Lettow

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Foreign and Defense Policy

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Opportunity and Social Mobility

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Brian J. Miller

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Health Care

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Robert Cherry

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Opportunity and Social Mobility

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Joshua T. Katz

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Society and Culture

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Dustin Walker

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Foreign and Defense Policy

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Michael Brickman

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Education

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Chris Miller

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Foreign and Defense Policy

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Jeffrey A. Rosen

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Legal and Constitutional

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Dan Slater

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Foreign and Defense Policy

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Legal and Constitutional

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James W. Coleman

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Klon Kitchen

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Foreign and Defense Policy

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Society and Culture

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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Society and Culture

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Center for Technology, Science, and Energy

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Eric Sayers

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Foreign and Defense Policy

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John G. Ferrari

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Foreign and Defense Policy

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Christopher J. Scalia

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Society and Culture

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Opportunity and Social Mobility

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Kevin R. Kosar

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Philip Wallach

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Legal and Constitutional

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Brett D. Schaefer

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Foreign and Defense Policy

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Elaine McCusker

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Foreign and Defense Policy

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Amitabh Chandra

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Health Care

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Robert Kulick

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Robert Pondiscio

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Ian Rowe

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Ross Douthat

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Foreign and Defense Policy

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Kyle Pomerleau

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Economics

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John D. Maurer

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Foreign and Defense Policy

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Kirsten Axelsen

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Economics

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Mason M. Bishop

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Opportunity and Social Mobility

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Hal Brands

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Foreign and Defense Policy

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Daniel A. Cox

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Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies

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Opportunity and Social Mobility

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Giselle Donnelly

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Foreign and Defense Policy

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Foreign and Defense Policy