Special Edition: Parade or Power Play? Politics of Army Celebration
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
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🗓️ 14 June 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
A massive military parade is happening in the nation's capital today to mark the Army’s 250th anniversary — but it’s not without controversy.
From the timing and cost to the political context, we’re unpacking what this spectacle might really signal.
Today’s expert helps us explore the deeper meaning, historical comparisons, and how Americans might think about the military’s role in a democracy.
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Saturday, June 14th. We're taking a closer look at the massive military parade happening in the nation's capital today. It's being held to mark the Army's 250th anniversary. But the timing, the spectacle, and the political implications have sparked controversy. So what's really behind it? Today, we're getting analysis from Yvanchu, a visiting fellow at the think tank |
| 0:21.3 | American Enterprise Institute. She's an expert on authoritarianism, defense strategy, and global |
| 0:26.2 | justice, and has her Ph.D. and master's in political science. She also teaches at the U.S. |
| 0:31.6 | Naval War College and serves on the board of directors for the International Society for Military |
| 0:35.9 | Ethics. Though she has made it |
| 0:37.7 | clear, her views are her own. They do not represent those of the Naval College, Department of Navy, |
| 0:42.4 | or the federal government in any way. Today, she's getting into the cost, the history, and the |
| 0:46.8 | possible impact of today's big parade. Welcome, welcome to The Newsworthy Special Edition Saturday, |
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| 0:54.8 | expert or celebrity every Saturday to talk about something in the news. |
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| 1:06.7 | I'm Erica Mandy. |
| 1:07.6 | It's time for today's special edition Saturday. |
| 1:10.1 | You ready? |
| 1:11.9 | Let's do this. |
| 1:19.3 | Yvanchu, thank you so much for joining us here on the Newsworthy. Thanks for having me. I'm very happy to be here. Can I just get your brief but overall take on this military parade happening on Saturday? I think the parade could be a good opportunity for the |
| 1:30.0 | military in some ways, but it is not the best opportunity. And I think there are a number of things |
| 1:34.6 | about the circumstances that are the little unfortunate and actually don't really serve the |
| 1:39.4 | military's interests, both the parade by itself and then, of course, in conjunction with other |
| 1:43.8 | things that are going on in the country at the same time. |
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