What the Hell Is Going On: WTH Is Going On With Civilian Control of the Military? Kori Schake Explains.

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🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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While we celebrate the remarkable achievement of 250 years of the US military being a bulwark of democracy, it is important to understand the intentionally laid foundations on which America’s civil military relations tradition rests. Military deference to civilian authority and the legislature is a principle pioneered and championed by General George Washington, setting a […]

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute.
0:03.1	If you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, review, and share.
0:07.1	Thanks for listening. Here's our show.
0:08.7	What the hell is going on?
0:10.5	What's really going on?
0:12.0	We said, what the hell happened?
0:13.5	You don't have to know what the hell is on it.
0:15.6	They see what's going on.
0:16.7	I don't know what's going on.
0:18.0	What is going on?
0:20.0	We must find out what's going on. What is going on? We must find out what is going on.
0:30.0	Hi, I'm Danielle Pletka.
0:32.1	And I'm Mark Tiesin.
0:33.3	Welcome to our podcast.
0:34.9	What the hell is going on, Mark?
0:37.3	What the hell is going on is we are talking about civil military relations.
0:42.0	And we are about to celebrate the semi-Quincennial, a new word that I am enjoying saying, of the American founding.
0:50.5	And we are talking with Corey Shaki, our boss, our leader at the Foreign and Defense Policy Department at AI, who's written a wonderful book on the history of civil military relations and all the traditions of the civilian-run military, where the military defers to the civilian authority, and its roots really go in the just unbelievable character
1:14.0	of a single man, George Washington, and how he just, you know, what's fascinating about George
1:20.8	Washington is we don't, he wasn't a fabulous writer like Jefferson or Matt or a Hamilton,
1:26.4	but his example of his decisions echoes down
1:31.1	through history and still affects us today. And so Corey unpacks the roots of military deference
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