On the C-SPAN Networks: Benjamin H. Friedman is a Director for Policy in the Defense Priorities with eight videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2009 Forum as a Research ...

A recent Pew Research poll finds that historically high numbers of Americans want their government to do less abroad. That worries many foreign-policy elites, who fear that bad wars and growing debt ...

The $54 billion defense spending boost that the Trump administration wants for next year is strategically misguided and legislatively doomed, though not for the same reason. It is misguided because ...

Benjamin H. Friedman is a research fellow in defense and homeland security studies at the Cato Institute Image: The Pentagon, looking northeast with the Potomac River and Washington Monument in the ...

Benjamin H. Friedman (@BH_Friedman) is the policy director at Defense Priorities. He was previously a research fellow in defense and homeland security studies at the Cato Institute and a doctoral ...