by Benjamin H. Friedman Benjamin H. Friedman is research fellow in defense and homeland security studies at the Cato Institute and a PhD candidate in political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Added to cato.org on February 18, 2009 This article appeared in the World Politics Review on February 18, 2009 http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9987 and They call a slight increase a cut simply because it is less than the pentagon asked for. Talk about slight of hand and word games.