Trends in U.S. Military Readiness

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With Lt. Col. Dakota Wood, Bill Gertz, Rebeccah Heinrichs, Patrick Robinson

Lt. Col. DAKOTA WOOD (Ret.), Senior Research Fellow for Defense Programs at the Heritage Foundation:

• Current state of the U.S. Military
• In-depth analysis of the various branches’ readiness
• Inability to of the military to operate in multiple theaters

PART TWO:

• Cultural affect on military moral
• Current grade for the US nuclear capability
• Industrial ability to rebuild the military

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor at the Washington Free Beacon:

• Growing tensions between the US and China over South China Sea
• Russian and Chinese provocations to the USS Ronald Reagan
• Terrorist changing communication strategies as a result of disclosures by Edward Snowden

REBECCAH HEINRICHS, Fellow at the Hudson Institute:

• Inadvisability of joining the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
• Russian and Chinese definition of a “nuclear test”
• Historical rejection of the CTBT in Congress

PATRICK ROBINSON, Author of “The Lion of Sabray” and co-author of “Lone Survivor”:

• Insider story of “The Lion of Sabray”
• Attempts from the Taliban on Mohammad Gulab’s life