On today’s program, sponsored by HII, veteran Israeli journalist and analyst Barbara Rome discusses the unprecedented Hamas terror attack on Israel that left more than 700 dead, thousands wounded and more than 100 taken hostage, the intelligence failure and slow response by the Israel Defense Force, how the conflict needs to be resolved, and the assistance Israel needs from Washington and its allies; Sam Bendett of the Center for Naval Analyses discusses the latest on the Ukraine war as well as the lessons Russians are drawing from Hamas attack on Israel; and Byron Callan of the independent Washington research firm Capital Alpha Partners discusses the defense budget outlook under a new House speaker, implications of a world descending into entropy, and the importance of land forces as the Association of the United States Army’s annual convention convenes with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
