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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.”

Maj. Gen. Charlie Dunlap, Jr., USAF Ret., professor and executive director of the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security at the Duke University School of Law, says the US and its allies need to incorporate lawfare into defense planning, and discusses how state and non-state actors are moving in this space, how free societies can immunize themselves against lawfare-based offensives and more during a June 22, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian in Washington. The interview was held during “Strategic Competition: Maintaining the Edge,” the 2018 edition of CNAS’ annual conference.

Todd Harrison, Aerospace Security Project and defense-budget analysis director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, says the United States should photograph and distribute images of suspicious satellite-related activity in space to deter adversaries, and discusses the findings from the think tank’s “Space Threat Assessment 2018” report (sponsored by the Aerospace Industries Association), threats to American space assets, deterrence, situational awareness capabilities, Space Force and Space Corps proposals, and much more during a wide-ranging, June 15, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the think tank’s headquarters in Washington.

Watch Defense Secretary James Mattis’ address from the 2018 US Naval War College graduation ceremony in Newport, R.I. This footage is courtesy of the US Defense Department.