Robert Kagan | December 28, 2010 3:13pm

Cutting Defense for Deficit Reduction Is Risky

At a recent Brookings event on the U.S. defense budget and American power, Robert Kagan asks, "What does the liberal world order cost and what is it worth to us?" He says that saving $55-60 billion per year so that the defense budget can contribute its "fair share" of deficit reduction is too risky and that we're taking grave risks if we try to solve the budget deficit crisis by cutting the defense budget.

Robert Kagan

Senior Fellow

Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe

Robert Kagan is a senior fellow in Foreign Policy at Brookings. His most recent book isThe World America Made. Dr. Kagan also serves as a member of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board and is co-chairman of the bipartisan Working Group on Egypt. He writes a monthly column on world affairs for the Washington Post, and is a contributing editor at both the Weekly Standard and The New Republic.

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