As we talk about his year's Pentagon budget, remember this: the US spends more on the military services, their arms and equipment than the rest of the world's nations combined. And the spending may well go up, despite cuts in some high-profile programs in what Secretary Robert Gates calls a “reform budget.”
The Wars of the Future and the Wars of the Past
Credits
Guests:
- Spencer Ackerman - national security correspondent and author of “Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump” - @attackerman
- Winslow Wheeler - Center for Defense Information
- Richard Aboulafia - managing director at AeroDynamic Advisory
- John Nagl - President, Center for a New American Security