Episode 275: We won the Cold War and lost the peace : A Tour de Force with Erik Prince and Stephen Bryen

Former Navy U.S. Seal and founder of the private military company Blackwater Erik Prince says that "We are fighting wars the wrong way." Stephen Bryen is known as the "Yoda" of the Arms Trade. Time Magazine comments, "He knows every sinkhole in the regulatory swamp. Ignore him at your peril." He is also a former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense and founder of the Defense Technology Security Administration. This week, we are discussing Erik's new paper "Too Big to Win: How the Military and Industrial Complex and the Neocons Keep America Losing." One of the central questions posed by Prince – How has America transitioned from a post-Cold War era of dominance to its current state of disarray?

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Episode 275: We won the Cold War and lost the peace : A Tour de Force with Erik Prince and Stephen Bryen is an episode from The Bill Walton Show by The Bill Walton Show.

This episode is 01:06:55 long.

This episode was published on May 22, 2024.

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