What Catherine Rampell thinks about war
American economics journalist; economics editor at The Bulwark and an anchor at MS NOW, earlier an opinion columnist at The Washington Post and a reporter at The New York Times.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Catherine Rampell has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordswhen you're optimizing your military for bullshit like this (or Trump-friendlier aesthetics for warships, or higher testosterone levels, or whatever), it presumably means you're not optimizing for things like efficiency or lethality