Ep 161: Mackenzie Eaglen on China’s Military Spending and Ours

School of War · Dec 3, 2024 · 49m

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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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

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