On ChinaTalk, Bryan Clark co-hosts a discussion on the defense industrial base that considers the challenges and threats from Iran. He highlights critiques to United States defense procurement and innovation, arguing that bureaucratic incentives, acquisition politics, and tensions between the Pentagon and tech firms continue to slow the fielding of new military capabilities.
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Migrants storm a barbed-wire fence as they attempt to cross the land border with Spain's African enclave of Ceuta near Fnideq in northern Morocco on September 15, 2024. (Getty Images)