Tag: chris preble

Obama at War with Himself?

My friend Chris Preble, Cato Institute vice president for defense and foreign policy studies, writes, “It appears that the president is at war with...

Cut the Army and Marines?

In “Budgetary Savings from Military Restraint,” Cato Institute scholars Benjamin H. Friedman and Christopher Preble offer an initial harvest of restraint cuts. The authors...

Stop Policing the World

The 2016 presidential election offers Americans a chance to get back on the right track regarding how America works with other countries. The Cato Institute’s...

Defenseless in America Part II

There is a better way to make America safer, more prosperous and freer. More here from the Cato Institute policy analysis, Budgetary Savings from Military Restraint...

National Defense Panel (NDP) War Hawks

Niskanen Center’s Matt Fay unmasks the National Defense Panel (NDP).  Matt explains that while the NDP “has a veneer of bipartisanship, it is stacked...

Defenseless in America, Part I

Today’s presidential candidates, in large measure, are trotting out the old failed and forlorn message of the original Defense Planning Guidance (DPG) drafted by...

VIDEO: Millennials and U.S. Foreign Policy

From Cato Institute: The Millennial Generation, those roughly 87 million men and women born between 1980 and 1997, now represent one-quarter of the U.S. population....

VIDEO: War Is the Health of the State

From Cato Institute: The Founding Era was a violent one, and yet the Framers of the Constitution took great pains to constrain the government’s...

Neocon Jive

Writing in the Washington Post, the erudite Charles Krauthammer fires a broadside at the Iran nuclear deal. On many matters of concern for our country,...

Iranian Nuclear Deal—Cato’s Chris Preble is Positive

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton, as Chris notes, would “terminate” the Iranian Nuclear Deal. Preble underscores that the Walker/Cotton opposition...

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