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Podcast: Implementing a Coherent Foreign Policy, with (Ret.) Admiral Gary Roughead
How are America’s military leaders constrained by the political process and institutional factors? It’s a question we don’t ask very often, but one that’s key to understanding how American foreign policy actually gets implemented.
In a recent conversation for the Hoover Institution, I talked to retired Admiral Gary Roughead — the 29th Chief of Naval Operations and one of only two officers in the Navy’s history to have commanded both the Atlantic and the Pacific fleets — about precisely this set of issues. What he had to say was fascinating. Have a listen:
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Troy, is that a picture of a French jet I see?
Good podcast, though. Although you’re talking mainly about foreign policy, there are closely linked domestic issues to which the Admiral’s comments are also applicable.
As someone who is witnessing first hand the rapid atrophy and decay of our defense and aerospace industries, I appreciate your advocacy on this issue. I’ve seen the havoc that inconsistent funding and lack of a long-term coherent strategy can wreak on important development programs and especially on my friends’ careers.
ROUGHEAD? Awesome last name.
The original last name of the brothers who founded the Lockheed Aircraft Company was Loughead.