Are We Ready? America’s Crumbling Defense Industrial Base, With Kathleen Hicks

Kathleen Hicks, former Deputy Secretary of Defense and a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center, the Johns Hopkins University’s Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how the U.S. defense industrial base has struggled to keep pace with the demands of renewed great power competition. This is the ninth episode in a special series from The President’s Inbox, bringing you conversations with Washington insiders to assess whether the United States is ready for a new, more dangerous world. Mentioned on the Episode: Mark Bowden, " The Crumbling Foundations of America's Military ," The Atlantic For an episode transcript and show notes, visit The President’s Inbox at:

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Are We Ready? America’s Crumbling Defense Industrial Base, With Kathleen Hicks is an episode from The President's Inbox by Council on Foreign Relations.

This episode is 34:39 long.

This episode was published on Dec 17, 2025.

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