Is the U.S. feeding a cash cow? Daniel Grazier, senior fellow and director of The National Security Reform Program, Stimson Center, gives his take on current defense spending. Watch this full episode of "Unreported": https://youtu.be/_eTiQkvEKq8 #nationalsecurity #military #USmilitary
Some stories make headlines. Others get ignored. On "Unreported," Meagan Medick takes a deeper look at the unexplained through the eyes and experiences of you, the viewers. You send the mystery ā we investigate. This week, Meagan tackles America's new arms race and a $900-plus-billion defense budget the Pentagon has never once passed an audit on. Dan Grazier, a former U.S. Marine Corps tank officer who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and is now senior fellow and director of the National Security Reform Program at the Stimson Center, joins the show. They discuss why the F-35 program ballooned from $200 billion to nearly $2 trillion while only a quarter of the jets are mission-ready, how defense contractors and lobbyists shape Congress'sā¦