{"id":25349,"date":"2026-01-22T16:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T21:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/?p=25349"},"modified":"2026-01-22T11:15:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T16:15:59","slug":"facing-the-future-is-defense-spending-going-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/?p=25349","title":{"rendered":"Facing the Future | Is Defense Spending Going Up?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week on Facing the Future we examined developments on the national security front with Michael O\u2019Hanlon, senior fellow and director of research in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution and author of a timely new book called \u201cTo Dare Mighty Things: U.S. Defense Strategy Since the Revolution\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/soundcloud%3Atracks%3A2251954850%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-ykDSikPv0CD&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-weight: 100; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"WKXL - NH Talk Radio\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/wkxl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WKXL &#8211; NH Talk Radio<\/a> \u00b7 <a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Facing the Future | Is Defense Spending Going Up?\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/wkxl\/facing-the-future-is-defense-spending-going-up\/s-ykDSikPv0CD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facing the Future | Is Defense Spending Going Up?<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week on Facing the Future we examined developments on the national security front with Michael O\u2019Hanlon, senior fellow and director of research in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution and author of a timely new book called \u201cTo Dare Mighty Things: U.S. Defense Strategy Since the Revolution\u201d WKXL &#8211; NH Talk Radio \u00b7 Facing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":25351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[153],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-facing-the-future"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/qtq80-T8Jl2j.jpeg?fit=2151%2C1440&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25352,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25349\/revisions\/25352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}