On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guests are 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, Mackenzie Eaglen of the American Enterprise Institute and Michael Herson, President and CEO, American Defense International and Byron Callan of the independent equity research firm Capital Alpa Partners.
Topics:
— Fourth stimulus package and defense budget update
— Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s stance on military spending and China
— Civil-military relations in the wake of reports on private comments by President Trump about veterans and the commander-in-chief’s charge that America’s senior military leaders seek wars specifically to bolster defense contractor earnings
— Reflections on 9/11 on the 19th anniversary of the terror attacks and the legacy of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars
