{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Episode 275: We won the Cold War and lost the peace : A Tour de Force with Erik Prince and Stephen Bryen","description":"Former Navy U.S. Seal and founder of the private military company Blackwater Erik Prince says that \u201cWe are fighting wars the wrong way.\u201d Stephen Bryen is known as the \u201cYoda\u201d of the Arms Trade. Time Magazine comments, \u201cHe knows every sinkhole in the regulatory swamp. Ignore him at your peril.&quot; He is also a former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense and founder of the Defense Technology Security Administration. This week, we are discussing Erik\u2019s new paper \u201cToo Big to Win: How the Military and Industrial Complex and the Neocons Keep America Losing.\u201d One of the central questions posed by Prince \u2013 How has America transitioned from a post-Cold War era of dominance to its current state of disarray? Follow us: Website: https:\/\/www.thebillwaltonshow.com&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ","author_name":"The Bill Walton Show","author_url":"https:\/\/www.thebillwaltonshow.com","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/31411267\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/item\/31411267"}