Lawfare Daily: John Bridgeland on National Service and Civil Defense Amid Geopolitical Uncertainty
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🗓️ 27 December 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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John Bridgeland, Executive Chair & CEO of More Perfect & former Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council & National Service Czar, joins Kevin Frazier, Senior Research Fellow in the Constitutional Studies Program at the University of Texas at Austin and a Tarbell Fellow at Lawfare, to examine America’s general preparedness for a large-scale conflict and its culture of service (or lack thereof). The two also discuss ongoing efforts to reform and expand military, national, and public service opportunities.
National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service Report: https://docs.house.gov/meetings/AS/AS00/20210519/112680/HHRG-117-AS00-Wstate-HeckJ-20210519-SD001.pdf
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| 1:02.0 | It starts in November. Christmas catch up. Let's do diaries. Oh, that clashes with my work do. That's the day of the |
| 1:09.0 | nativity. We're booked to see Santa. We're out picking a tree. |
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| 1:26.2 | Get together this Christmas around the festive nutcracker range at Costa. Costa Coffee. |
| 1:36.1 | And so the spirit of service and sacrifice, in some senses, is more important than ever. |
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| 2:04.2 | Studies Program at the University of Texas at Austin, and a Tarbell fellow at Lawfare, |
| 2:08.8 | joined by John Bridgeland, Executive Chair and CEO of More Perfect, and former director of the |
| 2:14.3 | White House Domestic Policy Council and National Service Tsar after 9-11. |
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