This week, on the "Heritage Explains" podcast, Lieutenant General Thomas Spoehr, who serves as director of Heritage's Center for National Defense, debunks some of the most timeworn arguments about defense spending used in an attempt to slash the Pentagon's budget.
Show Notes: Spoehr's op-ed, Peterson Foundation chart vs. Heritage Foundation (see chart 3)
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