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This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Monday, December 11th, 2017. I'm Caleb Brown. The Pentagon will

undergo an audit. That may seem routine, but consider this. It's never

happened before. Not once. But does an audit of the Pentagon mean we'll see a change in military strategy?

Chris Preble, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies at the Cato Institute,

discusses what that audit might mean.

It seems very surprising that the Pentagon... discusses what that audit might mean.

It seems very surprising that the Pentagon would engage in a full-scale audit,

and that's because it's unlike every other department in the federal government, it's never happened before, despite

the huge budgets that the Pentagon has.

That's right.

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