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Pentagon Labyrinth

Pentagon Labyrinth

Center for Defense Information

The Pentagon Labyrinth is a podcast by the Center for Defense Information at the Project On Government Oversight to discuss key issues and current challenges for military and Pentagon reform.

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  • 28 - Is The F - 35 Program At A Crossroads

    On this episode of The Pentagon Labyrinth, we analyze the most recent F-35 testing report in depth and place the issues raised in the proper context.

    Mon, 08 Mar 2021 - 29min
  • 27 - Telling The Truth About Afghanistan with Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis

    Retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Danny Davis talks about the official lies told about the Afghanistan War, revealing the truth, and how America can forge a new foreign policy path moving forward.

    Thu, 10 Dec 2020 - 45min
  • 26 - What’s the Military’s Role in a Contested Election with Mark Nevitt

    Retired Navy JAG and Syracuse Law professor Mark Nevitt talks about the laws governing the president’s authority to deploy the military within the United States.

    Tue, 27 Oct 2020 - 33min
  • 25 - Military Health Care Challenges with Dr. Robert Adams

    Retired Army doctor Robert Adams talks about the consequences of the efforts to outsource the military’s health system over the past decade, despite repeated warnings from medical professionals.

    Thu, 21 May 2020 - 38min
  • 24 - Citizen-Soldiers Versus Soldier-Citizens with Dr. Steele Brand

    The relationship between the military and the society it serves has a significant impact on policy decisions and even budgets. The veneration of service members in the United States today manifests benignly in the refrain, “Thank you for your service,” and the much appreciated discounts at the local home improvement center, but this reverence can also have less benign effects. The number of retired flag officers serving in high government positions, sitting on the boards of defense contractors, and appearing as talking heads on television shapes policy, which in turn drives Pentagon budgets. Dr. Steele Brand, a professor of history at The King’s College in New York City, explored the differences between the citizen-soldier and the soldier-citizen in his recent book, “Killing for the Republic.”Republican Rome produced highly adaptive armies with farmers who would moonlight as effective soldiers during the campaigning season and then return to their families and plows—a practice that helped to remove the barriers between the military and the society it served, according to Brand. He says Rome’s part-time soldiers faced an uphill battle against enemy professionals, but that their ability to adapt meant they usually prevailed in the end. In this interview, Dr. Brand explains the differences between the Roman and American models of training soldiers and how those differences contribute to the civilian-military divide.

    Tue, 05 May 2020 - 33min
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