On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guests are Byron Callan of the independent equity research firm Capital Alpa Partners, Dov Zakheim, PhD, former DoD comptroller, now with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Gordon Adams, PhD, Non-Resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute and Michael Herson, President and CEO, American Defense International.
Topics:
— Update on status of fourth stimulus package, debate on US Postal Service funding as well as government and defense budget measures
— Key political and national security takeaways from the Democratic National Convention
— How mounting national debt will impact future defense spending
— Last week’s letter signed by Republican national security veterans endorsing former Vice President Joe Biden as America’s next chief executive
— Disconnect between Trump administration’s backing of the sale of F-35 fighters to UAE in the wake of diplomatic recognition between Jerusalem and Abu Dhabi and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s call to block the sale of the 5th generation fighter to the Gulf Arab kingdom
