The Eisenhower Media Network (EMN)
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.
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 We Do
EMN hones and focuses the existing energy and talent of experts who have been there, done that, and taken the time learn and apply lessons “from the inside” of generational war and the military-industrial complex that feeds it.
Our experts offer alternative analyses untainted by Pentagon or defense industry ties. They counter Washington’s establishment narrative on most national security issues of the day.
They oppose systemic corruption, nepotism, and the undue influence that the military-industrial-congressional complex — through its money and army of “revolving door” lobbyists — has on the policymaking process.
More About Our Experts
Today we have become what Eisenhower's worst nightmare predicted in his farewell address... We are the merchants of death for seven billion people.
The “volunteer” system is propped up by unprecedented enlistment bonuses that are disproportionately attractive to the poor and irrelevant to the wealthy. [This] affects not only national security but also the social fabric of our democracy.
Every one of Bush's and Obama's military forays has sowed further chaos, startling body counts, and increased rates of terrorism. It's those policies, those results, and the military toolbox that went with them that Donald J. Trump inherited in January 2017.
