Don’t Call It a ‘Defense’ Budget

This isn't "defense." The new budget from the White House will push U.S. military spending well above $2 billion a day. Foreclosing the future of our country should not be confused with defending it. "Unless miraculous growth, or miraculous political...

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Hail Christopher Preble

The Power Problem: How American Military Dominance Makes Us Less Safe, Less Prosperous, and Less Free Christopher Preble Cornell University Press, 2009 Although there has always been some animosity between some Antiwar.com and some Cato Institute people, I don't share...

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Seven Days in January

Sometimes it pays to read a news story to the last paragraph where a reporter can slip in that little gem for the news jockeys, or maybe just for the hell of it. You know, the irresistible bit that doesn't fit comfortably into the larger news frame, but that can be...

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Why Freeze Spending on Only Part of the Budget?

The results of the special election for the Massachusetts Senate seat once held by Ted Kennedy reverberated like a "shot heard 'round the world" – or at least one heard 'round Washington. All the spending lately in Washington has apparently alienated the...

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The Forty-Year Drone War

There's something viral about the wondrous new weaponry an industrial war system churns out. In World War I, for instance, when that system was first gearing up to plan and produce new weapons by the generation, such creations – poison gas, the early airplane, the...

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