by Burning Issues Video | May 3, 2016 | Burning Issues, Defense/Foreign Policy
[fve]https://youtu.be/uPzFqfa4UQY[/fve] Danielle Brian, the executive director of the Project on Government Oversight, highlights the reasons why our Pentagon budget is so bloated in this Burning Issues segment. One simple answer: It's politics. The way the Pentagon...
by Lindsay Koshgarian | Apr 27, 2016 | Defense/Foreign Policy, Economy
Senator John McCain has had enough of government secrecy and bloated Pentagon projects. The Arizona senator made headlines Wednesday by calling for more transparency around defense contractor Northrop Grumman's winning contract to build the B-21 bomber. The Air Force...
by Burning Issues Video | Apr 26, 2016 | Burning Issues, Defense/Foreign Policy
[fve]ttps://youtu.be/tki-nuTUCko[/fve] Emira Woods, associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, says in this Burning Issues video that the next U.S. president needs to think of Africa differently and ally with the forces of change seeking to improve the...
by Burning Issues Video | Apr 25, 2016 | Burning Issues, Defense/Foreign Policy
[fve]https://youtu.be/2A8YD-yMo-I[/fve] The principle of a civilian-run military – a military answerable to a democratically elected president and Congress – has proven vital to the health of American democracy. But retired Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of...
by Burning Issues Video | Apr 22, 2016 | Burning Issues, Defense/Foreign Policy
[fve]https://youtu.be/WEXE6YK0SDg[/fve] The next president should heed the wisdom of an electorate that is "fed up" with the follies of military adventurism because of the fiascos in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, says Emira Woods, a foreign policy fellow at the...
by Burning Issues Video | Apr 13, 2016 | Burning Issues, Defense/Foreign Policy
[fve]https://youtu.be/FkVh3IlnMTU[/fve] The U.S. has "become, in essence, the new Rome," says Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell in the George W. Bush administration, in this Burning Issues video segment. Wilkerson, who...
