AN INDEPENDENT RESOURCE FOR JOURNALISTS
The Eisenhower Media Network (EMN) comprises former military, intelligence and civilian national security officials who offer independent analysis based on decades of real-world experience, study and scholarship. EMN aims to reach broad, cross-partisan audiences in diverse media outlets and among the those American people – who increasingly sense that seeking to offer alternatives to an overly-militarized US foreign policy today is not making that do not make them, or the world, safer.”
WHAT MAKES EMN DIFFERENT?
Unlike most national security commentators, EMN fellows are free of ties to weapons, technology and services corporations that profit from war. Likewise, EMN as an organization receives no funding from the US government, foreign governments or military contractors. This differentiates EMN from the majority of US foreign policy-focused think tanks that receive governmental, military-industrial or dark money funding.
WHO ARE THE EMN FELLOWS?
EMN’s fellows have extensive military, intelligence, diplomatic and national security backgrounds. Almost all EMN fellows held senior positions, had direct combat experience or were posted overseas. Several of EMN’s fellows are current or former professors at national universities, and most have authored books on national security issues.
WHAT DOES EMN STAND FOR?
While diverse in their backgrounds, including political beliefs, EMN fellows agree on the following when it comes to US foreign and national security policy:
- America’s strength is not dependent on overseas military operations, massive Pentagon budgets or foreign weapons sales but on its people, resources, infrastructure, environment and moral authority;
- America’s militarized foreign policy must transition to a diplomatic foreign policy;
- The gargantuan, wasteful and unrivaled Pentagon budget must be substantially reduced;
- Endless wars overseas, whether they be direct or indirect American military actions, must be ended;
- More enlightened American leadership that understands the limits of US military power overseas and the value of working toward more peaceful, diplomatic resolutions to foreign policy problems; and
- The US must be a force for peace in the world.
EMN FELLOWS IN THE NEWS
Fellow Michael Baker joins ten other retired senior military officers in a brief on the downsides of Trump’s National Guard deployment.
Fellow Gregory A. Daddis breaks down the falsehoods and self-promotion featured in David Petraeus’ most recent Foreign Affairs opinion piece.
Lasting peace is in the best interest of our nation. That will happen only when every American has a direct stake—whether monetary or physical—in its execution.
