On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, a Textron company, our guests are:
segment 1: Lt. Gen. David Deptula, USAF Ret., Dean of Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, and Todd Harrison, Aerospace Security Project and defense budget analysis director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies;
Segment 2: John Tirpak of Air Force Magazine;
Segment 3: Evelyn Farkas, PhD, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine, Eurasia in the Obama administration who is now with the German Marshall Fund, Ilan Berman of the American Foreign Policy Council and Teri Schultz, a Brussels-based reporter for National Public Radio and Deutsche Welle.
Topics include:
— Pros and cons of President Trump’s Space Policy Directive 4 to establish a space force
— A look ahead to the Air Force Association’s Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando
— Analysis of last weekend’s Munich Security Conference including major themes and the rift between the United States and its closest allies
