2023 Index of Military Strength: How Ready is the U.S.?
27 October 2022
Dakota Wood, Senior Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation's Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy, discusses Heritage's recently released "2023 Index of Military Strength", how the United States compares to China, Iran and Russia, where our nation is least ready today from a military perspective, and why young adults need to discover the nobility of serving their country.
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