On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, a Textron company, our guests include Ilan Berman of the American Foreign Policy Council, Teri Schultz, a Brussels-based reporter for National Public Radio and Deutsche Welle, Defense & Aerospace Report contributing editor Christopher P. Cavas and Tony Capaccio, world renowned defense reporter for Bloomberg News.
Topics:
— NATO’s defense ministerial meeting in the wake of President Trump’s decision to withdraw US forces from northern Syria, clearing way for Turkish invasion
— Agreement between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Russian President Vladimir Putin to jointly patrol region abandoned by US troops
— Shift in US messaging after Washington’s decision
— Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va., a retired nuclear-qualified US Navy commander, questions Hondo Guerts, the assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development and acquisition, and Vice Adm. Tom Moore, the commander of the US Naval Sea Systems Command, about aircraft carrier maintenance problems
— Navy Secretary Richard Spencer’s comments at the Brookings Institution criticizing Luria, Congress and Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding
— USS Gerald R Ford’s elevator, propulsion and electrical problems
— Fixing Ford and subsequent ships of the new class
