The Cato Institute’s Chris Preble writes, “The military is the most popular institution in America, and the men and women serving in the military are almost universally revered. Cutting the troops’ pay is about as popular as kicking Santa Claus on Christmas — but the opprobrium lasts 365 days of the year.” America needs to […]
Greetings from Spectacular Water Color
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Weekend Reading from Niskanen Center
If you couldn’t keep up with the many happenings in world defense policy this week, Niskanen Center has compiled an essential reading list to help you catch up. Here are a couple of Niskanen Center’s highlights: – Apropos of the Pentagon’s budget request being submitted this week, Politico Magazine ran a story this week on the […]
Deep Cuts in the Army?
Niskanen Center’s Matthew Fay looks at the prospects for letting the National Guard and the Army reserves play a bigger part in America’s defense structure. It’s an idea that makes sense. Fay writes: [T]he Guard and reserves have proven themselves capable of handling combat duty during over a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, […]
Let the Sunnis Deal with ISIS
Originally posted February 6, 2015. Pat Buchanan looks at the position Turkey and the Sunni’s should take in defeating ISIS. Critics argue that after making his commitment to “degrade and defeat” the Islamic State, President Obama has provided neither a war strategy nor the military resources to carry it out. And they are right. But […]
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Tucker Carlson at Cato/Naples
The Daily Caller’s editor and chief was the featured speaker at the Cato Institute’s annual Naples, Florida policy conclave. A packed house of 450 Libertarians listened with great interest as Tucker Carlson explained how the demographics in America had radically shifted since the financial crisis. The striking shift, he believes, will have a significant bearing […]
In Defense of Pete Carroll
Game Theory may shed some light on the startling call made by Seattle’s Pete Carroll in the stunning closing seconds of Seattle’s Super Bowl loss to the New England Patriots. Justin Wolfers of the Peterson Institute for International Economics explains here. Whenever I have taught economics students the idea of playing a mixed strategy, they respond […]
Cato Institute Dan Mitchell’s First Theorem of Government
“Above all else, the public sector is a racket for the enrichment of insiders, cronies, bureaucrats, and interest groups.” Dan adds his First Theorem in historical support of French economist Frederic Bastiat, who wrote, “Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.”
America and the Ukraine
Should the U.S. get militarily involved in conflict with Russia over two provinces in southeastern Ukraine? The administration should look to the wisdom of the original Weinberger Powell Doctrine for guidance. The essential elements boil down to five elements. There is not a single one that would get a yes response when applied to today’s crisis […]
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