Defense & Foreign Policy

National Defense

Maintaining security in a multipolar world without endless wars or unchecked spending.

The Problem

The U.S. spends more on defense than the next several countries combined, yet faces evolving threats from great power competition, terrorism, cyber warfare, and emerging technologies. Two decades of wars in the Middle East cost trillions and thousands of lives with mixed results. The defense budget faces little serious scrutiny.

Outcomes this issue serves

Why we track this

World-stage leadership
Sustain U.S. leadership in innovation, defense, education, and science — not as a slogan, but on the underlying strengths that actually produce it.

Our Position · Stated · Status: Forming

Where we stand

Audit and reform defense spending, modernize for 21st-century threats, strengthen alliances

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