Opposing the monopoly of the state in providing security, he advocated a free market of competing defense providers, saying that "defense is a service like any other service; it is labor both useful and desired, and therefore an economic commodity, subject to the law of supply and demand".
Han motsatte sig det monopol som staten hade på säkerhetsområdet och förespråkade en fri marknad av privat konkurrerande försvarleverantörer: "defense is a service like any other service; ... it is labor both useful and desired, and therefore an economic commodity subject to the law of supply and demand".