Ep 146: Eric Edelman and Thomas Mahnken on America’s Defense Strategy Crisis

Update: 2024-09-24

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Eric Edelman and Thomas Mahnken of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments join the show to talk about what our defense establishment has gotten right, and wrong, in planning for the next war.

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Times

• 02:10 Introduction

• 02:43 National Defense Strategy

• 06:58 Continuity between administrations

• 08:55 Multiple theater force construct

• 17:31 “A flawed net assessment”

• 28:30 An imbalance of power

• 34:46 Favoring the defense

• 38:42 Resources and cost

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Ep 146: Eric Edelman and Thomas Mahnken on America’s Defense Strategy Crisis

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