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Richard Spencer, the 76th US Navy secretary, discusses the Littoral Combat Ship program, the Pentagon’s FY19 budget-request highlights, the service’s upcoming 30-year shipbuilding plan, modernization, balancing efficiency and efficacy, improving training, culture change and much more during an exclusive, wide-ranging Feb. 3, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian in San Diego just before the commissioning of the USS Omaha, the 12th LCS and the sixth Independence-class vessel.

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Col. J.R. Clearfield, USMC, commander of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, discusses highlights of the USS America Amphibious Ready Group’s seven-month deployment (which included the ships San Diego and Pearl Harbor that visited every continent but South America and Antarctica), the capabilities of the ARG-MEU team, and more during a Feb. 2, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian, taped after the ships and 4,500 sailors and Marines returned to San Diego.

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Bruce Bennett, PhD, senior international defense researcher at the RAND Corporation think tank, discusses deterring North Korea, the country’s nuclear program, President Donald Trump’s proposed “bloody nose” strategy, role of information warfare operations, and more during a Feb. 1, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the think tank’s headquarters in Santa Monica, California.

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In a Feb. 2, 2018, report entitled “The Return of Political Warfare,” Seth Jones, PhD, Harold Brown chair, Transnational Threats Project director and International Security Program senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, says that US defense strategy must be take unconventional warfare, and especially political warfare, into consideration “since the costs and risks of conventional and nuclear war may be prohibitively high” for it and the countries it sees itself as competing with. “Recognizing that other powers routinely conduct political warfare, George Kennan encouraged U.S. leaders to disabuse themselves of the ‘handicap’ of the ‘concept of a basic difference between peace and war’ and to wake up to ‘the realities of international relations—the perpetual rhythm of struggle, in and out of war,'”  Jones writes. “Kennan’s advice may be even more relevant today in such a competitive world.”

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READ THE REPORT — In “Keeping A2/AD at Bay: The Imperative for Base Defense in the Western Pacific,” a new report from the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, Lt. Col. Thomas R. McCabe, USAF Ret., argues that the United States must view the Western Pacific as a frontline and prepare its aircraft, assets and bases in the region for conventional attack due to China’s development and deployment of “modern military systems, especially conventional ballistic and cruise missiles.”  Further, he writes, “leaders should consider several countermeasures, including dispersal, passive defense, and active defense” in anticipation of such an attack. Learn more about the report here.

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In the second installment of this week’s special, two-part Defense & Aerospace Report podcast, sponsored by Bell Helicopter, a Textron company, we analyze the defense and foreign policy implications of President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address, delivered Jan. 30, 2018, in Washington. Our guests include Gordon Adams, PhD, American University professor emeritus and Stimson Center distinguished fellow, Byron Callan of Capital Alpha Partners and Steven Grundman of the Atlantic Council.

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Mark Russell, a business development executive for Euro-NATO at Boeing’s Insitu and a retired US Air Force lieutenant colonel, discusses how the company’s ViDAR (Visual Detection and Ranging) wide-area autonomous detection system and analytics technology can help NATO allies identify maritime threats more easily by removing water from drone images during a December 2017 interview with the Defense & Aerospace Report during NATO Allied Command Transformation’s 2017 Chiefs of Transformation Conference in Norfolk, Virginia.

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Antti Kolehmainen, managing director and global defense business service lead at Accenture, discusses how the the IT consulting company is helping defense organizations increase their agility and speed to market while still leveraging existing systems during a December 2017 interview with the Defense & Aerospace Report at NATO Allied Command Transformation’s 2017 Chiefs of Transformation Conference in Norfolk, Virginia.

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Kevin Yin, CEO of northern-Virginia-based software maker SitScape, discusses the company’s User Defined Operating Picture software suite — which lets users gather, display and analyze data in real-time to allow for faster decision-making — and how he thinks it can help NATO allies during a December 2017 interview with the Defense & Aerospace Report at NATO Allied Command Transformation’s Chiefs of Transformation Conference in Norfolk, Virginia.

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