Is the Military Equipped to Defend Against Future Threats?

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With Michael Bastasch, Diana West, Tom Donnelly and Bruce Klinger

MICHAEL BASTASCH, Investigative Reporter at The Daily Caller:

• Supreme Court puts a hold on Obama’s Clean Power Plan
• Administration demanding military give priority to climate change
• Implications of the fracking tax

DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, author of “American Betrayal” and “Death of the Grownup”:

• Donald Trump’s plans for national security
• The Democratic Party’s embrace of socialism
• PEGIDA protest shut down in France

TOM DONNELLY, Co-director of the Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies at the American Enterprise Institute:

• Adequacies and deficiencies of Obama’s budget proposal regarding defense
• Obama’s harm to the military
• Shrinking US Naval Fleet

(PART TWO):

• Which Presidential candidate can secure a mandate to rebuild the military?
• Disconnect between the military and the civilian population
• Implications for the military if they are required to factor in their carbon footprint during times of war

BRUCE KLINGNER, Senior Research Fellow for Northeast Asia at the Heritage Foundation’s Asian Studies Center:

• North Korea’s recent ballistic missile tests
• Current officials in Pyongyang reneging on prior international arms agreements
• Allying with China against the Kim Regime
• US reassurances to South Korea regarding the THAAD Missile Defense System