On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, a Textron company, our guests include Gordon Adams, PhD, American University professor emeritus and Stimson Center distinguished fellow, Byron Callan of the independent equity research firm Capital Alpa Partners, Bob Hale, former Pentagon comptroller (who now advises Booz Allen Hamilton — his thoughts are his own) and Chris Servello, founder of Provision Advisors (and team member of the Defense & Aerospace Report).
Topics:
— House Armed Services Committee markup of the Trump administration’s 2020 defense budget request
— Prospects for a bipartisan deal to lift Budget Control Act spending caps
— Tensions between White House and House Democrats
— New attacks on tankers in Gulf of Oman
— Rising tensions with Iran as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits Tehran
— Congressional concerns with Trump’s use of emergency powers to clear arms and technology transfer to Saudi Arabia
— Report that Trump is wavering on Pat Shanahan as next US defense secretary
