Ted Galen Carpenter

Ted Galen Carpenter is a former senior fellow for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute. Carpenter served as Cato’s director of foreign policy studies from 1986 to 1995 and as vice president for defense and foreign policy studies from 1995 to 2011.

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The Cato Institute’s Belated, Squishy Stance on the Latest Middle East Crisis

10/25/2023 Mises Wire Ted Galen Carpenter

The alarming events taking place in the Middle East are growing worse and have more than a small potential to entangle the United States in another foreign war. Hamas’s well-coordinated, surprise...

The Liberty Movement’s Pro-War Fifth Column

09/27/2023 Ted Galen Carpenter

Recorded in Nashville, Tennessee, on September 23, 2023.

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