No Joy in Munchen

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4.8 • 691 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This week, the Bombshell ladies welcome Lauren Fish of the Center for a New American Security to talk all things FY19 defense budget, including why this big funding increase may not be all that it seems. While finding future employment for Navy SEALs on the skeleton track, we talk North Korea’s charm offensive, how we and maybe everyone else have totally lost the plot in Syria, and why the Munich Security Conference was the party everyone wanted to bail on. We offer everything you wanted to know about security clearances and deployability (and then everything you didn’t know you wanted to know). And oh yeah, Erin’s seen Red Sparrow.

Center for New American Security, “The Bottom Line,” CNAS
David Wharton, "'Peace Village,' a fake city just outside the DMZ, serves as metaphor for North Korean athletes at the Olympics," LA Times
Motoko Rich and Choe Sang-Hun, "Kim Jong-un's Sister Turns On the Charm, Taking Pence's Spotlight," New York Times
Scott Neuman, "'Dozens' Of Russian Mercenaries Reportedly Killed In U.S. Airstrikes In Syria," NPR
Isabel Kershner, Anne Barnard, and Eric Schmitt, "Israel Strikes Iran in Syria and Loses a Jet," New York Times
J. Dana Stuster, "Israel Strikes Iranian Targets in Syria after Drone Incursion," Lawfare
Aaron Mehta, "Mattis: Unclear if Russia directed attack against U.S. allies in Syria," Military Times
Eliot A. Cohen, "Witnessing the Collapse of the Global Elite," The Atlantic
Henry Meyer and Patrick Donahue, "U.S.-Russia TEnsion Flares Over Nuclear Arms Control Now at Risk," Bloomberg
William J. Antholis, "Rob Porter Is a National Security Scandal, Too," Politico
Tara Copp, "It's official: DoD releases new 'deploy or get out' policy," Military Times
Dahlia Lithwick, "Rob Porter's History of Domestic Abuse Wasn't a Secret. It's Just That No One Cared." Slate

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Bombshell. I'm Erin Simpson. I'm Lauren DeYoung-Schelman. And I'm Radda Iingoff. And we are here this week with a fabulous guest to talk about the thing we've been talking about for ages, the defense budget.
0:21.5	The defense budget. I'm so excited. Welcome to Lauren Fish. Hello. Thank you for having me.
0:25.4	Lauren is a research associate at the Center for New American Security working on defense
0:31.0	strategies and assessments team, previously on Senator Tom Cotton's defense team, and knows far more about the budget than any of us have ever forgotten before.
0:40.6	So I think we're in good hands.
0:41.8	But before we get ahead of ourselves, what are we drinking? What are we drinking? What are we drinking?
0:46.1	We are drinking a bottle of turn it around. Let's see. St. George's Green Chili vodka, which we received from a bombshell fan, Lucy Tiven. Thank you.
0:56.9	It is, I confess, a bit early in the day for me to be having vodka in any way, but it is delightful.
1:01.7	And perhaps in later hours, I will enjoy it quite a bit more. And actually, it's just a good time to
1:07.3	note that sending us bottles of booze is an excellent way to support the podcast.
1:11.2	But it's not the only way to support the podcast. You can buy our swag at war on the rocks.com
1:15.9	slash store. We hope many of your process valentines got gifts last week. You can also click
1:22.3	our reading links and that helps at the Amazon store. Just gives us a little bit of chump
1:25.6	change to help support the friends of the podcast around here.
1:29.9	And one last thing before we get going, we have a new friend of the podcast with us today.
1:34.3	Our erstwhile producer, Trey Hester. Hi, Trey.
1:36.7	Hi.
1:37.4	And he is located now in D.C. He's been working remotely with us from the very beginning, but is now here to monitor all of our levels and try to keep us on time, which means I don't have to do it. And so I'm very thrilled for him to be here.
1:50.9	So let's start with a new bombshell questions. Lauren, I know you've been thinking a lot about this. So we're ready to be impressed. What is your entrance music? You know, I have to say this is actually one of the harder questions in preparing for today.
2:02.6	It took me a while to figure it out, but I landed on She's Country by Jason Aldean, which is just, you know, a jammer.
2:09.6	You've got to, you just really get in there.
2:11.6	You want to shake your hips. You want to dance.
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