On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guests are Gordon Adams, PhD, Non-Resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute, Dov Zakheim, PhD, former DoD comptroller, now with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Byron Callan of the independent equity research firm Capital Alpa Partners, and Teri Schultz, a Brussels-based freelance reporter for National Public Radio.
Topics:
— How surging social justice movement could impact defense spending
— The rive to strip names of Confederate generals from US military bases and President Trump’s pledge to stop it
— Under Secretary of Defense Ellen Lord’s testimony before the House Armed Services Committee
— Higher coronavirus costs claimed by leading contractors like Lockheed Martin and lawmaker appetite for covering them
— Trump administration moves against the International Criminal Court and scaling back US troop presence in Germany
— European and NATO reaction to troop move
— Air Force acquisition chief Will Roper’s comments to the Air Force Association
— US presidential election dynamics
