Episode 1: Recruitment, Retention, and Personnel Issues

For our first installment of “How to Win,” we are joined by tenth U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie of the America First Policy Institute and retired U.S. Army Lt. General Thomas Spoehr of the Center for Strategic and International Studies to discuss the cornerstone of America’s military strength: its people. Both are also distinguished members of the Vandenberg Coalition’s Advisory Board. This episode outlines the severity of the recruitment crisis, how new American leadership can fix it, and how to undo the Biden administration’s politicization of the armed forces.