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Jorge Benitez, director of the Atlantic Council think tank’s NATOSource blog and a senior fellow in its Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, discusses what to expect from the 2018 NATO Summit in Brussels, what President Donald Trump’s’ strategic goals should be both there and at his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin later in July, how Trump’s diplomatic language may threaten the alliance and aide Putin’s efforts to disempower it, US Defense Secretary James Mattis’ role in American foreign policy, Norwegian Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Søreide’s June 26 remarks at the think tank and more in an interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian taped immediately after her speech in Washington.

In advance of next month’s NATO Summit, Ine Eriksen Søreide, Norway’s minister of foreign affairs, stresses the vital importance of alliance unity, says NATO should highlight its adaptability to an evolving security environment at the Brussels meeting, highlights her nation’s recent defense investments — including 52 Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fighter jets (six of which have been delivered), five Boeing P-8 Poseidon military aircraft and four submarines — and much more during a wide-ranging, June 26, 2018, address and subsequent Q&A with Damon Wilson, executive vice president of the Atlantic Council think tank, at its offices in Washington.

Damon Wilson, executive vice president of the Atlantic Council think tank, says that President Donald Trump should use the 2018 NATO Summit in July as an opportunity to rally allies’ support ahead of his meeting with Russian President Putin later that month, makes recommendations for US strategy at the summit, and discusses how Trump should approach Russia, the possibility of Russian aggression after the summit and the World Cup, and more in a June 26, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian in Washington.

Randy Walden, director and program executive officer at the US Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office, as well as a member of the Senior Executive Service, shares an update on the Boeing X-37 Orbital Test Vehicle and other programs, discusses his office’s work on open architectures and more during an address at the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies’ “Mitchell Hour: Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office Brief” event on June 25, 2018, in northern Virginia.

Ryan Ehinger, V-280 Valor program manager at Bell, discusses the tiltrotor aircraft’s June 18, 2018, flight demonstration, its technical achievements, the myriad of tests that happen beyond the flight line and more during an interview with the Defense & Aerospace Report. The interview was conducted immediately after the demonstration, which was held at the company’s Amarillo Assembly Center in Texas. Bell, a Textron company, sponsors the Defense & Aerospace Business Report podcast.

Richard Fontaine, president of the Center for a New American Security, discusses how the US should strategically compete with China and Russia, the think tank’s “Across the Pond, In the Field” joint initiative with the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin, Germany — which examines the local implications of US foreign policy issues — and more during a June 21, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was held during “Strategic Competition: Maintaining the Edge,” the 2018 edition of CNAS’ annual conference.

Bob Work, former deputy defense secretary who is now defense counselor at the Center for a New American Security, discusses China’s three-pronged strategy to offset US military advantages that includes espionage to shrink the time needed to develop new systems, employing a “system-destruction” approach to warfare, and attacking first to overwhelm defenses, Beijing’s capabilities and ways Washington can respond during a wide-ranging, June 22, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian in Washington. The interview was conducted on the sidelines of CNAS’ annual conference, this year titled, “Strategic Competition: Maintaining the Edge.”