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The US spends more than $700 billion on defense every year, more than healthcare, education, and all the rest of our discretionary spending combined. And yet the coronavirus slipped silently and invisibly across our borders, and even onto our aircraft carriers. You could say we were preparing for World War III, when we got hammered by World War C.
This season we ask, “What else are we missing?”
GUESTS: Alden Wicker, Sustainable Fashion Journalist; Kathleen Hicks, CSIS; John Blocher, Dave Ahern, Mia Herrington, and Larry Rubin, who shared their personal views with us at Defense One 2020.
ADDITIONAL READING:
Getting to Less, Foreign Affairs.
The Lessons of Y2K, 20 Years Later, Washington Post.
Nuclear Spending vs. Healthcare, ICAN.
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The US spends more than $700 billion on defense every year, more than healthcare, education, and all the rest of our discretionary spending combined. And yet the coronavirus slipped silently and invisibly across our borders, and even onto our aircraft carriers. You could say we were preparing for World War III, when we got hammered by World War C.
This season we ask, “What else are we missing?”
GUESTS: Alden Wicker, Sustainable Fashion Journalist; Kathleen Hicks, CSIS; John Blocher, Dave Ahern, Mia Herrington, and Larry Rubin, who shared their personal views with us at Defense One 2020.
ADDITIONAL READING:
Getting to Less, Foreign Affairs.
The Lessons of Y2K, 20 Years Later, Washington Post.
Nuclear Spending vs. Healthcare, ICAN.

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