Ivan Eland is a senior fellow and director of the Center on Peace and Liberty at The Independent Institute, a former director of defense policy studies at the Cato Institute, and a former principal defense analyst with the Congressional Budget Office. He is the author of The Empire Has No Clothes and Recarving Rushmore . His work has been featured in numerous publications, including the Chicago Tribune , Northwestern Journal of International Affairs , and The Washington Post , and on television programs such as ABC's World New Tonight , CNN's Crossfire , and Fox News. He lives in Washington, DC.