Author Archive
Eric Gomez
director, defense policy studies, Cato Institute
Ideas
As Clouds Gather in Eastern Europe, Nuclear Diplomacy is More Important Than Ever
More must be done to keep tensions over Ukraine from deepening nuclear instability.
- Eric Gomez
Ideas
OCO Must Go
Lawmakers should rally behind House appropriators' effort to eliminate a funding vehicle that allows the Pentagon to evade budget caps.
- Lauren Sander, Brandon Valeriano and Eric Gomez
Ideas
The Senate’s Defense Authorization Bill Ignores Our New Reality
The annual policy bill takes almost no notice of a pandemic that has already wrought more destruction than most of our country’s wars.
- Brandon Valeriano, Lauren Sander and Eric Gomez
Ideas
The New Missile-Defense Policy Won’t Make Us Safer
Instead, it will encourage rogue states to nuke first in a conflict, and will increase the risk of escalation in a great-power war.
- Eric Gomez