Fred Thompson's Defense Diatribe
Ted Galen CarpenterRepublican presidential candidate Fred Thompson may have set a modern record for the amount of sloppy thinking on defense policy in a single speech. In remarks at the Citadel on...
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Lawrence J. KorbChristopher A. PrebleNot surprisingly, the magnitude of the nation’s fiscal crisis has inevitably evoked warnings that our insolvency threatens our national security. One part of...
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Conservatives for Empire
Doug BandowThe U.S. government is effectively bankrupt. Angry citizens in the Tea Party movement are bypassing traditional politicians. Republican Party apparatchiks are scrambling to turn popular...
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The Incredible Shrinking Militaries of Europe
Doug Bandow Great Britain ceased to be a great power when it emerged from World War II militarily victorious but financially ruined. Nevertheless, it still tried to play the part, punching “above its...
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Cuts, Draconian Cuts, and Indiscriminate Slashing
Christopher A. PrebleAlthough the President's deficit reduction commission failed to assemble the 14 votes necessary to compel a vote by Congress, the debate over spending, and especially over military...
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Rep. Ryan’s Budget Doesn't Touch Military Spending
Christopher A. PrebleFor all the boldness of Rep. Paul Ryan’s proposal to reduce projected federal expenditures by $5 trillion, an initiative that I support, the Pentagon’s budget emerges essentially...
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What's So "Special" about that Relationship, Anyway?
Christopher A. PreblePresident Obama travels to Europe this week, a trip that will include visits to Ireland, France, and Poland. His visit to the United Kingdom, however, holds special importance....
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U.S. Grand Strategy and the Debt Crisis
Christopher A. PrebleThere has been a fair amount of wailing and gnashing of teeth surrounding the debt crisis, most recently about what it might mean for the U.S. military and for U.S. foreign...
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U.S. China Hawks Perpetuate East Asian Free Riding
Ted Galen CarpenterPrinceton University scholar Aaron Friedberg has fired the latest salvo in the campaign to highlight China’s military buildup and the threat it’s likely to pose to U.S. hegemony in...
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Strength vs. Spending
Christopher A. PrebleThe New York Times weighs in this morning with a timely and sensible editorial on military spending. The main focus is on the increasingly outdated pay and benefits system for the...
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Assessing the 2011 Defense Cuts
Michael O'HanlonSome things just seem to come in cycles. Before 2008, some economists speculated that perhaps we’d found a way to soften the magnitude and pain of recessions—and then we got the great...
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Defense Budget Tug-of-War
Frank KlotzA well-known military adage wryly notes that no plan ever survives first contact with the enemy. The same could be said of proposed defense budgets. Though in this case, it’s not an opposing...
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Let Sequestration Happen
Christopher A. PrebleSome members of Congress are anxious to undo sequestration, ignoring the inconvenient fact that they created the process in the first place. Instead of accepting responsibility,...
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James JoynerChuck Hagel recently delivered his first major public-policy address since becoming secretary of defense. While the bulk of his speech at the National Defense University focused on the need...
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Death by Sequestration
Dov S. ZakheimThe defense budget has always been collateral damage in the great budget debate over the relative merits of entitlement reform and tax increases. The current deficit is projected to total...
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