The American Defense Council is a national nonprofit lobbying and educational organization that advocates a simple message: peace through strength.

The single greatest strength of the United States of America is our Constitution. Specifically, the Bill of Rights and the Separation of Powers doctrine that the Founders designed to keep the three branches of government -- the Executive, the Judicial and the Legislative -- separate but equal are the real twin pillars of American power.

The American Defense Council takes a very dim view of any efforts to weaken the separation of powers doctrine or with any efforts to dilute any single part of the Bill of Rights. It is these principles that millions of Americans have fought, bled, and died for -- and these are principles that American Defense Council will fiercely defend.

To this end we conduct independent research vital to the military, intelligence, political, economic and sovereign interests of the United States and disseminate this information to policymakers and the American people with the goal of improving our national security.

We encourage citizens to be informed about our security interests as well as where our elected officials stand, and to communicate with them regularly on these issues.

With 91,735 members, American Defense Council is one of the fastest growing citizens organizations in America. Dan Perrin, its president, was formerly the John East Memorial Fellow at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and is widely quoted in the media.

American Defense Council has delivered hundreds of thousands of petitions to Congress and has published six research papers that have received national attention.

On September 7, 2001, just 4 days before the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the American Defense Council delivered a major research paper to Congress warning about extremist Muslims in Malaysia training with the Taliban.

One of the American Defense Council's other projects involves the monitoring of national legislation on defense and national security issues, posting the findings in its Homeland Security Ratings on this web site, which rank Members of Congress based on their support of the war on terrorism.