The Depleting Power of the U.S. Military

With Dakota Wood

DAKOTA WOOD,Senior Research Fellow for Defense Programs in the Heritage Foundation’s Center for National Defense, Editor of the 2018 Index of U.S. Military Strength, Former Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments:

• The condition of U.S. military strength at the moment
• How the end of the Cold War marked the beginning of U.S. Military decline
• What happens when the peace dividend goes away?

(PART TWO):

• How to measure capabilities of U.S. Military’s ground forces
• What the American public needs to know about the 2018 Index of U.S. Military Strength 

(PART THREE):

• The size and modernity of U.S. Naval forces

(PART FOUR):

• Current status of the U.S. Air Force
• Drastic reduction in Air Force resources in the past decade
• State of U.S. nuclear forces, space and cyber-warfare capabilities

(PART FIVE):

• Is the U.S. industrial base effective and efficient?
• How perceived weakness emboldens opportunism