Restore the Military
Restore the Military podcast explains exactly what is broken in our military—and how Congress can actually fix it.
Displaying 3 items of Restore the Military with the tag "military policy".
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Episode 6: America’s Military Readiness Crisis
July 21st, 2026 | 18 mins 46 secs
National Security, combat veterans, goldwater nichols, joint staff, military life, military pay, military policy, military reform, ndaa, ndaa defense policy, pentagon reform, restore the military, veterans affairs, warrior culture
Can the United States actually fight one war right now — let alone two? Hosts Doug Truax and Will Thibeau dig into the Strategic Equipment Reserve, the state of the American defense industrial base, and why the numbers behind U.S. munitions stockpiles should worry every voter.
In this episode:
• What CSIS's 2023 Taiwan invasion wargames revealed about how fast key precision munitions run out
• How U.S. aid to Ukraine drained Javelin, Stinger, and artillery stocks with no fast replacement plan in place
• Why China's grip on rare earths and critical components is a vulnerability an adversary could exploit early in any future conflict
• The Strategic Equipment Reserve provision: a two-war stockpile, dedicated training stocks, a five-year domestic sourcing mandate, and new restrictions on diverting reserves abroad
• Why this is the rare defense reform with bipartisan support — and the lowest conference risk in the entire package
• The real cost of rebuilding the arsenal, and why it's dramatically cheaper than the cost of losing -
Episode 5: The Battle for Control of America's Military
July 14th, 2026 | 19 mins 29 secs
National Security, combat veterans, goldwater nichols, joint staff, military life, military pay, military policy, military reform, ndaa, ndaa defense policy, pentagon reform, restore the military, veterans affairs, warrior culture
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Episode 2: The Truth About Women in Combat Units
June 25th, 2026 | 19 mins 54 secs
defense bill, defense policy, doug truax, military policy, military readiness, military reform, ndaa, will thibeau, women in combat
In 2015, the Marine Corps conducted a landmark nine-month study on gender-integrated combat units and found that all-male squads outperformed integrated squads on 69 percent of tasks — yet the Obama administration opened all combat positions to women anyway. A decade later, Congress is finally attempting to legislate sex-neutral fitness standards into permanent law, and this episode breaks down the data, the political decisions that overrode it, and what's at stake in the current fight.