This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchel.

The United States Army, the United States military, the Department of Defense, what is to be done in a transition between parties and the return of a previous president of the United States who has a record.

I welcome Bradley Bowman, Senior Director of the Center on Military and Political Power

at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, writing with his colleague, Admiral Mark

Montgomery at FD as well as to what is to be done.

Brad, a very good evening to you.

We're in a moment where the U.S. Department of Defense needs

attention by the U.S. Congress for the outgoing years. On the, you're on measure of the previous

Trump administration, was there proper attention given to the DOD in its needs? And what do you

expect the DOD will ask now of the return presidency?

Good evening to you.

Good evening to you, John.

And thanks for the opportunity to talk about this piece that Rear Admiral Retired Mark

Montgomery and I published in the National Review on Friday.

The essential argument we're making is that there is a mismatch between the threats

we confront and the amount of money we're spending on the Department of Defense. Strategy is

essentially, as you know, the coordination of ends and means. So when you say that there's a mismatch

between threats to our interests and the means we're allocating to address those threats,

that's called a strategic dysfunction or strategic insolvency. So we're allocating to address those threats, that's called a strategic dysfunction

or strategic insolvency. So we're making a fairly serious claim here. And we start the piece

by pointing out to the Commission on National Defense Strategy, something I believe we may have

discussed before. And it's July 2024 report said, quote, the threats the United States faces

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