This week, the AEI Podcast Channel presents the latest episode of https://www.aei.org/tag/aei-banter/ (Banter), AEI's flagship podcast. If you like what you hear, subscribe to Banter on https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/banter-an-aei-podcast/id427915745 (Apple), https://open.spotify.com/show/7kOxlIuNsPbshewASi8tLI?si=60b2d45f7fe14ce9 (Spotify) or wherever you get your podcasts. Kori Schake is a senior fellow and the director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. She joins Phoebe and Robert to discuss US defense spending and how to maintain healthy civil-military relations after the turmoil of the Trump years. Stay tuned until the end, when Phoebe asks Kori about her thoughts on the US’ disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. Learn more from AEI scholars on Afghanistan at https://www.aei.org (aei.org )