--- description: Todd Harrison is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on defense strategy and budgeting, the defense industrial base, and space policy and security. title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Todd Harrison ## Todd Harrison Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Todd Harrison is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on defense strategy and budgeting, the defense industrial base, and space policy and security. ## Todd Harrison Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  Dec 7, 2024 ### [How the U.S. Can Maintain Its Military Edge Over China](https://time.com/7199538/us-military-edge-china/) America is blessed with the world's most capable military and a vast network of allies. Yet Washingt... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/todd-harrison/","name":"Todd Harrison"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/todd-harrison/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/todd-harrison/"},"name":"Todd Harrison","jobTitle":null,"description":"Todd Harrison is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on defense strategy and budgeting, the defense industrial base, and space policy and security.","url":"https://time.com/author/todd-harrison/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```