Dec 17th 2011 | from the print edition
Cutting defence spending
SIR – I was grateful to be mentioned inLexington’s column on defence spending (November 26th), though he misread the main argument in my book, “The Wounded Giant”. In fact, I support the idea of roughly $400 billion in defence-spending reductions over ten years. That amount was mandated back in August in the initial tranche of cuts under the Budget Control Act. What I oppose is the additional $500 billion or so in ten-year cuts required under the subsequent “sequestration” of defence spending that was mandated because of the failure in November of the so-called supercommittee.
