Behind the rise in global defense spending, Part 2: China and the Indo-Pacific
Release Date: 05/17/2024
Defense innovation with Shield AI’s Brandon Tseng
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The Marine Corps in the Pacific littorals
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The Army’s updated fitness test
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Guests: Command Sergeant Major , Command Senior Enlisted Leader of Army Special Operations Command, in conversation with Defense One's and Ben Watson. Related reading: "," published April 21, 2025; "," via RAND researchers, published Dec 20, 2024; And "," also via RAND, published Mar 23, 2022.
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Sea-Air-Space 2025, in review
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Army chief Gen. Randy George
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Guest: U.S. Army chief of staff Gen. Randy George, interviewed by Defense One’s Patrick Tucker. Catch our full State of Defense agenda and future events, .
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Space Force Gen. Chance Saltzman
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Guest: U.S. Space Force commander Gen. Chance Saltzman, interviewed by Defense One’s Audrey Decker. Catch our full State of Defense agenda and future events, running through the end of March, .
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Air Force chief Gen. David Allvin
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Marine Corps. Gen. Eric Smith
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Our annual State of Defense interview series begins with a commandant working to balance crisis response and modernization. Learn more about that series .
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Testing the Army’s new fighting strategy on Ukraine's doorstep
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Guest: U.S. Army Col. Joshua Glonek, commander 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division. Related reading: "," from Sam Skove reporting in October; "," also via Skove, reporting from Louisiana's Fort Johnson in September; And in reruns there is "," featuring Skove speaking about his trip to Louisiana.
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- Mackenzie Eaglen, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where she works on defense strategy, defense budgets, and military readiness;
- And Ankit Panda, Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Sources:
- “Global military spending surges amid war, rising tensions and insecurity,” published April 2024 by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute;
- “Back in Stock? The State of Russia's Defense Industry after Two Years of the War,” by Maria Snegovaya, Max Bergmann, Tina Dolbaia, Nick Fenton, and Samuel Bendett, published April 2024 by the Center for Strategic and International Studies;
- “Keeping Up with the Pacing Threat: Unveiling the True Size of Beijing’s Military Spending,” by Mackenzie Eaglen, published April 2024 by the American Enterprise Institute;
- “Indo-Pacific Missile Arsenals: Avoiding Spirals and Mitigating Escalation Risks,” by Ankit Panda, published October 2023 by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace;
- “Missile Proliferation and Control in the Asia-Pacific Region,” from Jeffrey Lewis and Kolja Brockmann, published April 2024 by the International Institute for Strategic Studies;
- And “Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace,” from Chris Blattman, published April 2022 by Penguin Random House.