Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, US Army, commanding general of US Army Europe, discusses lessons learned from Russia’s Zapad 2017 exercise and conducting more demanding exercises for US and allied troops in Part 1 of an Oct. 11, 2017, interview at the Association of the United States Army’s 2017 AUSA Annual Meeting and Exposition in Washington. The Defense & Aerospace Report’s coverage is sponsored by AM General, Elbit Systems of America, General Motors HydroTec, L3 Technologies and Leonardo DRS.