Dov S. Zakheim

And news reports the Pentagon is working on a new intelligence agency to better wage economic warfare against China and other U.S. rivals and rumors that North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un had died.

Joining us today to discuss all this and more are Dr. Patrick Cronin, the Asia Pacific Security Chair at the Hudson Institute Think Tank, former Pentagon Europe Chief Jim Townsend, who is now with the Center for a New American Security, and a co-host of the Brussels Sprouts podcast, A Must for Anybody Interested in the Transatlantic Alliance, and former Pentagon Comptroller Dr. Dov Zakheim, who counts the Center for Strategic and International Studies among his many affiliations.

And Michael Herson, the president of American Defense International, is off this week.

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or w- the George W. Bush, what I would call the PNAC Zionists.

Dov Zakheim, uh, and all those a- a- assholes who were running, who were in the B- Bush W. administration, who were running the war.

You know, all the, the, the, the Project for a New American Century, neocon Zionist component, right? So that, that's one group there.

Um, they, they were part of-