Confronting Threats and Building Consensus

Leon Panetta has been there and done that. From joining theArmy in the 1960s, to serving in Congress for more than a decade and a half, to directing the Office of Management and Budget, to serving as the Director of the CIA and Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta has served our country with distinction for decades. He also serves on the board of advisors for the Center on Military and Political Power at FDD. How does Secretary Panetta believe the threats to our country have changed? Why should Americans care about developments overseas? How does he view defense spending? And how do we build and sustain bipartisan consensus around necessary national security policies? Bradley Bowman, senior director of FDD’s Center on Military and Political Power, guest hosts this Foreign Podicy conversation with Secretary Panetta.