Arsenal of Democracy

Neil Keegan, co-managing partner and CEO of Marlinspike, a DC-based venture capital firm, joins Marshall Kosloff to give a glimpse into the private sector side of defense innovation and marketplace challenges. Keegan explains how companies like Space X are creating a new blueprint for private-public partnerships on defense innovation that are cost-effective and impactful. Such efforts can ultimate...

Following first-hand trips to Taiwan, Israel and Ukraine, Hudson Institute President and CEO joins host Marshall Kosloff to recap what he saw and heard, as well as the role that America should be playing in each theater. Walters notes that US leaders need to begin calling out Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping for the despots they are and show that the US military is prepared to use soft and hard power...

Jonathan Ward, senior fellow at Hudson Institute, joins Marshall Kosloff to discuss the economic threats of the Chinese Communist Party, arguing that now is the time to build up America’s industrial base, and that private industry and US political leaders needs to unite to defeat the CCP economically—or risk losing the decade to China and presaging future conflict.

It's no revelation that America is behind when it comes to manufacturing. But the reality that we stand alone as the world's leading software creators should headline discussions around today's Arsenal of Democracy. Guest Shyam Sankar, CTO at Palantir, argues that a new marriage of software and American manufacturing can and should spark innovation across industries, including defense. In conversa...

Amid ongoing war in Ukraine and the Middle East, as well as China’s looming threat over Taiwan, the United States faces the possibility of wars on three fronts. Can America's modern Arsenal of Democracy sustain such engagement? Will US allies join the efforts? Foreign Policy's Jack Detsch joins host Marshall Kosloff to answer these questions and more.  Read Jack's piece: The Pentagon is Trying to...

Hudson Senior Fellow Riley Walters joins Marshall Kosloff to recap the recent elections in Taiwan, which saw new coalitions forming inside the strategic island nation. Additionally, they discuss why Taiwan is, and will be, at the center of global technological supply chains for a long time thanks to its leadership in chip and superconductor development. 

The U.S. defense industry has found itself straddling the line of simultaneous developments challenges. On one hand the innovation is lurching forward with technology like AI and hypersonics leading a new weapons revolution, while on the other hand we need a defense industry capable of supplying enough 1980s Stinger Missiles to support allies fighting right now. Host Marshall Kosloff is joined by...

The Arsenal of Democracy team was invited last week to the Tenth Annual Reagan National Defense Forum in Simi Valley, California, to record conversations reckoning with the intersection of technology, innovation, and defense. Hudson Senior Fellow Nadia Schadlow joined Marshall Kosloff in person to discuss why accountability and follow-through are necessary to procuring and acting on technology tha...

There have always been skeptics of China's continued rise, and yet the Chinese Communist Party-led economy stills carries on. However, in a new report titled, "China’s Economic Weakness and Challenge to the Bretton Woods System: How Should the US Respond?" Hudson Senior Fellow Tom Duesterberg explains why the Chinese economy is now, more than ever, standing on fragile foundations and could be head...

China is bankrolling its own “Arsenal of Autocracy” through forces like Russia and North Korea. At the same time, the conversation around TikTok and its roll in undermining American culture and unity is coming to a head. Jacob Helberg, a commissioner at the United States–China Economic and Security Review Commission, joins the show to review the full spectrum of actions the US can take to counter...

Senior Fellow Michael Roberts joins the show to reveal exactly how far ahead China is of the rest of the world when it comes to shipping and why its a national security threat flying under the radar. The U.S. is falling behind and increasingly reliant on Chinese-connected supply chains that could be weaponized against us at a moment's notice if China had the desire. Roberts lays out how we got her...

Hudson Institute Japan Chair Kenneth Weinstein joins the show to discuss why Japan is the United States’ key ally in Asia. Ken reviews Japan's political history, influential leaders, and regional realities to explain why the island nation is primed to step up to face the China challenge and to fulfill the vision first articulated by the late Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of a free and open Indo-Pacifi...

Miles Yu, Senior Fellow and host of Hudson's China Insider podcast, joins Marshall Kosloff to pull back the curtain on the Chinese Communist Party's authoritative system of governance, and its undeniable aims at global dominance.  Check out the China Insider podcast: https://www.hudson.org/foreign-policy/welcome-china-insider

Arthur Herman, Hudson Institute senior fellow and author of  Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II , joins the show to compare the Arsenal of Democracy of World War II to what is needed today. Herman argues that to counter China, Russia, and other autocracies, the United States needs to lead an "Arsenal of Democracies," working with our allies, and we need to star...

Michael Doran, Hudson Institute senior fellow and co-host of the Counterbalance podcast, joins the show following Hamas’ brutal attack on Israel to discuss what we can expect in a war between Israel and Hamas and the forces behind this conflict: Iran, Russia and China, working together to sow chaos globally and directly challenge the US and its allies.

Senior Fellow Luke Coffey joins the show to break down Ukraine funding, the state of the counter-offensive and how politics plays out in great power conflicts. Additionally, Coffey illustrates why the outcome in Ukraine is directly related to America's role and reputation around the globe.

Hudson Senior Fellow's Bryan Clark and Dan Patt join host Marshall Kosloff to introduce the Center for Defense Concepts and Technology and explain how defense innovation, tactics and strategies must adapt to keep America's great power adversaries guessing. 

Rebeccah Heinrichs joins Arsenal of Democracy to discuss the key elements of strategic deterrence, how the US can deter China and Russia, and the resources and political policies needed to execute such a strategy. Heinrichs is a senior fellow at Hudson Institute and the director of its Keystone Defense Initiative. She specializes in US national defense policy with a focus on strategic deterrence....

Nadia Schadlow joins Arsenal of Democracy to discuss the intersection of national security, supply chains, and critical technologies. The principal author of the Trump administration’s 2017 National Security Strategy, Nadia discusses key considerations in formulating strategy, the United States’ technological competition with China, how the US government can solve problems, and specific technologi...

What does success in the struggle against the People's Republic of China look like? Senior Fellow John Lee joins Arsenal of Democracy to deep dive on his report on the topic, co-authored with Lavina Lee, available here:  https://www.hudson.org/foreign-policy/success-struggle-against-people-republic-china-john-lavina-lee John Lee is a senior fellow at Hudson Institute. He is also a senior fellow (n...

Former US Attorney General and Hudson Institute Distinguished Fellow Bill Barr joins Arsenal of Democracy to discuss the drug crisis in the United States, the role of Mexico’s drug cartels, and what the US can do about it. Read AG Barr’s op-ed, “The US Must Defeat Mexico’s Drug Cartels” here . William P. Barr is a distinguished fellow at Hudson Institute. He served as US attorney general from 1991...

With the first Republican presidential primary debate set to kick off the 2024 presidential election, Peter Rough joins Arsenal of Democracy to preview the key foreign policy issues that will be front and center for candidates. Peter and Marshall Kosloff discuss what has changed for the GOP since then-candidate Donald Trump burst onto the scene, how political leaders should think about and approac...

Walter Russell Mead joins host Marshall Kosloff to review what an American “arsenal of democracy” really means and what it would take to build one for the twenty-first century. Walter and Marshall also survey the shifting world order, from the war in Ukraine to the China challenge, to identify what American leadership can do against increasingly influential great power rivals. Watch the show on Hu...

A weekly podcast hosted by Marshall Kosloff, and produced by Hudson Institute, that believes that the “Arsenal of Democracy” is not merely a state of military, industrial, and societal readiness, but a conception of America’s role as the world reckons with a shifting geopolitical order, revanchist Great Power rivals, and global debates about the prospects for liberal democracy. Join us each week b...