By Christopher A. Preble

Security

Hagel Should Trim Defense

| 01.14.13

After ten years of unconstrained growth, the Pentagon's budget simply must come down.

Politics

The Final Obama-Romney Clash

| 10.23.12

Several TNI regulars assess the campaign's last debate.

Politics

Let Sequestration Happen

| 07.17.12

The most dramatic option for cutting defense spending also may be the only viable one.

Politics

War Is Too Easy, but a Draft Is Not the Solution

| 07.11.12

Conscription won't save money. It will abridge young people's freedom.

Economics

What Sequestration Might Mean for San Diego (and Other Places)

| 07.01.12

Cuts won't devastate the economy. Even defense-heavy localities can adapt to lower levels of defense spending.

Politics

The Critique of Pure Kagan

| 06.28.12

Robert Kagan has issued a cri de coeur urging Americans to reject calls for reduced U.S. military spending, curtailments in the country’s global commitments and restraint on its interventionist impulses. But his prescriptions are shortsighted.

Politics

The Defense Lobby's Greatest Fear

| 06.27.12

Americans for Tax Reform insists that the Pentagon budget should not be preserved through tax increases. The defense industry is portraying cuts as a Texas chainsaw massacre.

Security

About that Pivot to Asia

| 06.11.12

Washington seems unsure of its goals for increased engagement in the Asia-Pacific region.

Security

Rough Seas Ahead for Navy’s Surface Fleet?

| 05.17.12
Security

New Paper Argues for Immediate, Practical Cuts in Military Spending

| 05.15.12
Politics

Romney’s National-Security Problem

| 04.19.12

On Afghanistan and defense spending, Romney refuses to give the people what they want.

Society

On Foreign Policy, Ask the Audience

| 03.26.12

Americans want a "protect America first" policy, not a "send Americans first" one.

Politics

Romney’s 4 Percent Military Spending Still a Fantasy

| 03.19.12

Holes keep popping up in the GOP hopeful's murky, unrealistic defense-spending proposal.

Politics

Recalculating Romney’s 4 Percent Gimmick

| 03.06.12

Romney should be compelled to answer the question on everyone’s mind: Where is he going to get the money to fund his Pentagon spending binge?

Security

Libya Begets Syria?

| 02.07.12

The questions Washington must be able to answer before pondering intervention in Syria.

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