Reason Magazine: Nick Gillespie- Chris Preble: 'Why Expanding America's Military Strength Puts The U.S. at Risk'

Source:Reason Magazine- CATO Institute national security analyst Chris Preble.

"People think that strength is a function of how much you spend," says Christopher Preble, Vice President for Defence and Foreign Policy Studies at The Cato Institute. "We've confused having military strength with having the ability to actually make things happen."

Preble sat down with Reason TV's Nick Gillespie at FreedomFest 2012 to discuss military spending, the Obama administration's handling of Libya, and Preble's 2009 book, The Power Problem: How American Military Dominance Makes Us Less Safe, Less Prosperous and Less Free.

Held each July in Las Vegas, FreedomFest is attended by around 2,000 limited-government enthusiasts and libertarians a year. ReasonTV spoke with over two dozen speakers and attendees and will be releasing interviews over the coming weeks.

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From Reason Magazine

American military strength is not about how much money we spend on our military or how many people we can kill. But how effective we are in influencing the rest of the world, to make it as safe as possible, to make America as safe as possible from foreign threats.