On the In Depth show blog, you can listen to the interviews, find more information about the guests on the show each day and links to additional resources.
This is the In Depth show blog. Here you can listen to the interviews, find more information about the guests on the show each day and links to additional resources.
Today’s guests:
Alan Chvotkin — Executive vice president and counsel, Professional Services Council
Alan Chvotkin and Bill Bransford count down the top federal news stories of the week on Federal News Countdown. From a contracting pay cap and the Senate postal bill to the Secret Service scandal, listen for a discussion of the most important issues and news in the world of the federal government.
Michael O’Hanlon — Director of Research and Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
The Defense Department’s new defense strategy, released earlier this year, “envisions a smaller, leaner Army that is agile, flexible, rapidly deployable and technologically advanced,” according to a Congressional Research Service report, released by the Federation of American Scientists’ Secrecy News.
But there are still questions about what the Army will look like after this reconfiguration.
Michael O’Hanlon, the director of research and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, discusses lessons learned from previous Army drawdowns.
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