{"podcast":{"title":"The President’s Inbox","slug":"the-president-s-inbox-1112599","podcast_index_feed_id":1112599,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/thepresidentsinbox/feed.xml","website_url":"https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/presidents-inbox","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/7700361/The-Presidents-Inbox_update_1_9dxd3.jpg","author":"Council on Foreign Relations","episode_count":100,"summary":"A rising China. War in Europe. A warming planet. The United States faces a complex and rapidly changing world. With more than four million downloads, The President’s Inbox goes beyond the headlines as host James M. Lindsay speaks with leading experts about how the United States should respond to global challenges and opportunities that are shaping the future.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-25T08:19:46.287127+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-president-s-inbox-1112599"},"episode":{"title":"Are We Ready? | America’s Crumbling Defense Industrial Base, With Kathleen Hicks","slug":"are-we-ready-america-s-crumbling-defense-industrial-base-with-kathleen-hicks","published_at":"2025-12-17T21:31:14+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-president-s-inbox-1112599/are-we-ready-america-s-crumbling-defense-industrial-base-with-kathleen-hicks","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-president-s-inbox-1112599","url":"https://thepresidentsinbox.podbean.com/e/are-we-ready-america-s-crumbling-defense-industrial-base-with-kathleen-hicks/","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/uyh2c68yuix54fk5/251217_TPI-MASTER.mp3","summary":"Kathleen Hicks, former Deputy Secretary of Defense and a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center, the Johns Hopkins University’s Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how the U.S. defense industrial base has struggled to keep pace with the demands of renewed great power competition. This is the ninth episode in a special series from The President’s Inbox, bringing you conversations with Washington insiders to assess whether the United States is ready for a new, more dangerous world. Mentioned on the Episode: Mark Bowden, \"The Crumbling Foundations of America's Military,\" The Atlantic For an episode transcript and show notes, visit The President’s Inbox at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/tpi/are-we-ready-americas-crumbling-defense-industrial-base-kathleen-hicks","meta_description":"Kathleen Hicks, former Deputy Secretary of Defense and a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center, the Johns Hopkins University’s Kissi…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2079,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-president-s-inbox-1112599/episodes/are-we-ready-america-s-crumbling-defense-industrial-base-with-kathleen-hicks/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-president-s-inbox-1112599/are-we-ready-america-s-crumbling-defense-industrial-base-with-kathleen-hicks.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}