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Power Problems • August 20, 2024 

# The Pentagon’s Budgetary Time Bomb 

The Stimson Center’s Senior Fellow Dan Grazier and Research Associate Julia Gledhill analyze U.S. defense spending and explain how the Pentagon is creating “a budgetary time bomb set to explode in the next twenty years.” They discuss several examples of failed over-budget weapons acquisition programs and warn that future such fiascos are now in the making, with unsustainable budgetary implications, unless crucial reforms to U.S. defense and foreign policy are made.

**Show Notes**

- Dan Grazier, Julia Gledhill, Geoff Wilson, “[Current Defense Plans Require Unsustainable Future Spending](https://www.stimson.org/2024/current-defense-plans-require-unsustainable-future-spending/)”, Stimson Center Issue Brief, July 16, 2024.

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##### Dan Grazier 

Senior Fellow, Stimson Center

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##### Julia Gledhill 

Research Fellow, Stimson Center

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##### John Glaser 

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