Kori Schake

Kori Schake is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and the director of foreign- and defense-policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Before joining AEI, Schake was the deputy director general of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. She has worked at the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Department of Defense, and the National Security Council at the White House. She has also taught at Stanford, West Point, Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, National Defense University, and the University of Maryland. Schake is the author of five books, among them America vs. the West: Can the Liberal World Order Be Preserved? and Safe Passage: The Transition From British to American Hegemony.

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  2. The Lecture I Couldn’t Give

    Now more than ever, our armed forces need to understand the history of civil-military relations.

    Kori Schake
    Illustration with black-and-white photos of airplanes flying, Pete Hegseth saluting, and a reimagined version of the painting “Washington Crossing the Delaware”
    Illustration by Lucy Naland. Sources: Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty; Getty.