#82 - Chris Preble
Vice president defense and foreign policy studies, Cato Institute
When some think tanks are arguing for a larger defense budget, Preble brings his classically libertarian message to the debate: Defense cuts, he argues, will actually make America’s defense stronger. Now that thinking is gaining traction with the likes of Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla,, arguing in his report, “The Department of Everything,” that the Pentagon budget is so larded with special-interest pork that it easily can be cut by more than $60 billion if all those nondefense add-ons are eliminated. CATO doesn’t have the sway of a CNAS, but Preble, a former Navy surface warfare officer, might be onto something.
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Vice president defense and foreign policy studies, Cato Institute
When some think tanks are arguing for a larger defense budget, Preble brings his classically libertarian message to the debate: Defense cuts, he argues, will actually make America’s defense stronger. Now that thinking is gaining traction with the likes of Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla,, arguing in his report, “The Department of Everything,” that the Pentagon budget is so larded with special-interest pork that it easily can be cut by more than $60 billion if all those nondefense add-ons are eliminated. CATO doesn’t have the sway of a CNAS, but Preble, a former Navy surface warfare officer, might be onto something.
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