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Ep 161: Mackenzie Eaglen on China’s Military Spending and Ours
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Mackenzie Eaglen, senior fellow at AEI and author of Keeping Up with the Pacing Threat: Unveiling the True Size of Beijing’s Military Spending, joins the show to discuss the dire situation the U.S. defense budget is in.
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• 01:22 Introduction
• 02:48 Keeping up
• 05:26 China’s spending
• 10:01 Equipment costs
• 13:46 “Stealing our stuff”
• 18:25 5 alarm fire
• 20:32 U.S. budget truths
• 24:50 BCA 101
• 31:32 Today or tomorrow
• 39:23 Defense is cheaper, not better
• 43:21 Solutions
Follow along on Instagram or YouTube @SchoolofWarPodcast
Find a transcript of today’s episode on our School of War Substack
211 episodes
Manage episode 453421765 series 2998419
Mackenzie Eaglen, senior fellow at AEI and author of Keeping Up with the Pacing Threat: Unveiling the True Size of Beijing’s Military Spending, joins the show to discuss the dire situation the U.S. defense budget is in.
▪️
Times
• 01:22 Introduction
• 02:48 Keeping up
• 05:26 China’s spending
• 10:01 Equipment costs
• 13:46 “Stealing our stuff”
• 18:25 5 alarm fire
• 20:32 U.S. budget truths
• 24:50 BCA 101
• 31:32 Today or tomorrow
• 39:23 Defense is cheaper, not better
• 43:21 Solutions
Follow along on Instagram or YouTube @SchoolofWarPodcast
Find a transcript of today’s episode on our School of War Substack
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