The Pentagon is asking Congress for tens of billions of dollars more in defense spending, even as a new kind of threat — cheap, long-range Iranian drones — is turning America’s forward-deployed…
Joseph Votel — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
Joseph Votel has appeared on 3 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including NPR News Now, Up First from NPR. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
What Joseph said
“Our strength for the last several decades has been our forward deployment and our positioning across the Gulf. Now we are seeing that that same advantage has turned into a little bit of a disadvantage.”
— General Joseph Votel
Episode appearances
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The Houthis—a Yemeni Shiite militant group aligned with Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah—have announced a blockade of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a narrow waterway connecting the Red Sea to the Gulf of…
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. President Trump says the U.S. will work with Iran to remove what he calls "nuclear dust." Pentagon Chief Pete Hegseth says the U.S. military…
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