Ep 140: Roger Wicker on Defense Spending and Peace through Strength

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Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi, ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, joins the show to discuss his plan to spend five percent of America’s GDP on defense. Click the link to read more Peace through Strength: A Generational Investment in the U.S. Military

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• 01:31 Introduction

• 01:40 Service years

• 04:39 3% vs 5%

• 9:00 Peace through Strength

• 12:50 More money, more problems?

• 16:40 “Let’s get some more shipyards…”

• 19:37 Modernizing the nuclear arsenal

• 23:14 Force Design 2030

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