Defense Showstoppers: National Security Challenges for the Obama Administration

At What Cost? (Procurement/Defense Budget)

February 12, 2009

This panel discussion featured Frank Hoffman, Research Fellow at the Center for Emerging Threats and Opportunities, Marine Corps Combat Development Command, and Senior Fellow of FPRI; Mackenzie Eaglen, Senior Policy Analyst for National Security, Heritage Foundation; and Christopher Preble, CATO Institute. It was moderated by Michael P. Noonan, Director of FPRI’s National Security Program.

The panel was part of the “Defense Showstoppers” conference sponsored by FPRI’s Program on National Security and the Reserve Officers Association. FPRI thanks its trustees W. W. Keen Butcher, Bruce H. Hooper, John M. Templeton, Jr. for funding the Program on National Security.

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On November 15th at the FPRI annual dinner Fouad Ajami was presented with the Seventh Annual Benjamin Franklin Public Service Award. The event was attended by over 360 people.
Dr. John M. Templeton, Jr. was dinner chairman.

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