Tag: Kathleen Hicks
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Ex-Pentagon Deputy: US ‘Arsenal of Democracy’ Has Atrophied
Decades of deindustrialization, budget instability, and a complacency born of the post-Cold War “peace dividend” have left the United States’ defense industrial base in a fragile state, struggling to meet the demands of modern great power competition. In a candid assessment of American military readiness, Kathleen Hicks, the former Deputy Secretary of Defense, warned that…