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# Benjamin H. Friedman 

Former Research Fellow in Defense and Homeland Security Studies 

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Benjamin H. Friedman was a research fellow in defense and homeland security studies. He writes about U.S. defense politics, focusing on strategy, budgeting, and war. He has co-edited two books and has published in *International Security*, *Political Science Quarterly*, *Foreign Affairs*, the *New York Times*, the *Los Angeles Times*, the *Atlantic*, the *Philadelphia Inquirer*, *USA Today*, the *Hill*, *Politico*, the *Christian Science Monitor*, and various other journals. Ben is a graduate of Dartmouth College, a PhD candidate in political science at the MIT, and an adjunct lecturer at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs.

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