, Director, 21st Century Defense Initiative
A recent article in Politico “Playing Defense— At A Price?” explored the media phenomenon of Loren Thompson, the COO of the Lexington Institute, a relative machine when it comes to delivering pithy quotes on defense issues, but also a controversial figure in thinktankdom (A Harper’s Magazine article entitled, "Mad Men: Introducing the defense industry's pay-to-play ad agency" last April took Thompson to task for promoting his private defense clients in the public domain).
