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EXCLUSIVE: HASC’s Smith ‘Very Concerned’ About Proposed White House Budget’s Sustainability

Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, says he’s “very concerned” about the proposed White House base budget’s long-term sustainability in the midst of a $21 trillion national debt and a deficit projected to hit $1 trillion in 2018 during an exclusive Feb. 12, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.

2018 WEST Conference
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US Navy’s Swift on Strategy, Innovation, Culture, Learning from Accidents

Adm. Scott Swift, USN, commander, US Pacific Fleet, discusses the US Navy’s role in the National Defense and Security Strategies, manpower, culture, gray-zone warfare, strategic deterrence, learning from accidents, innovation and more during a wide-ranging, February 2018 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the AFCEA International/USNI WEST 2018 conference in San Diego. Our coverage is sponsored by Leonardo DRS.

2018 WEST Conference
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USNI’s Stavridis: ‘Bloody Nose’ Strike on North Korea Would Most Likely Lead to War

Adm. James Stavridis, PhD, USN Ret., chairman of the US Naval Institute, dean of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, calls President Donald Trump’s proposed “bloody nose” strategy “a terrible idea” because it would trigger uncontrollable “impulse escalation” from Pyongyang and the “escalatory response” North Korean attacks would demand of the US would almost definitely lead “to a war that would kill two-to-four million people in the Korean Peninsula” during a wide-ranging, February 2018 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the 2017 AFCEA/USNI WEST Conference in San Diego. Stavridis also advocates for four-party talks between the US, China, North Korea and South Korea, grades the Trump administration’s first year in foreign and defense policy, discusses recent US Navy accidents, and says a Washington military parade isn’t logistically, politically or fiscally advisable. Our WEST conference coverage is sponsored by Leonardo DRS.

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US Army’s McCarthy on Modernization’s Urgency: ‘We Know We Have to Evolve’

Ryan McCarthy, US Army under secretary, says the service must “continue to modernize itself to maintain its position as No. 1 in the world” and shares a status update on modernization efforts — including the Army Futures Command — during his opening remarks at the Brooking Institution’s “Next steps for the Army: A conversation with Under Secretary Ryan McCarthy” event, held Feb. 8, 2018, at its Washington headquarters. He delivered the remarks right before his discussion with Michael O’Hanlon, foreign policy research director, Sydney Stein, Jr. chair and a senior fellow at Brookings.

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US Navy’s Ruiz on USS America ARG Capabilities, Lessons Learned from Deployment

Capt. Rome Ruiz, USN, commodore of the US Navy’s Amphibious Squadron 3 (also known as COMPHIBRON THREE) discusses the distributed nature of the USS America Amphibious Ready Group’s operation, ARG-Marine Expeditionary Unit team and amphibious task force capabilities, forward-operating risks, and lessons learned from the deployment and Navy accidents during a Feb. 2, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian, taped after the ARG’s ships — America, San Diego and Pearl Harbor — and 4,500 sailors and Marines returned to San Diego.

COTC 2017
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aditerna’s Siegfried on Helping NATO Run Simulations Faster, More Efficiently

Robert Siegfried, managing director of aditerna, a German modeling and simulation services company, discusses how it helps clients like NATO and the German Armed Forces prepare, deploy and run simulations faster and more efficiently, as well as its aditerna Simulation Resource Planning (or SRP) tool, during a December 2017 interview with the Defense & Aerospace Report at NATO Allied Command Transformation’s 2017 Chiefs of Transformation Conference in Norfolk, Virginia.

Military & Aerospace History
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Planes of Fame’s Geier on Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket

Harry Geier, director of marketing & development at the Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, California, discusses the Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket test aircraft, which the US Navy used to learn about subsonic and supersonic flight, during a November 2017 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian taped at the museum.

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Planes of Fame’s Geier on Republic RF-84K Thunderflash

Harry Geier, director of marketing and development at the Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, California, discusses the RF-84K Thunderflash that was tested by (and reportedly intimidated) World War II triple ace Col. Bud Anderson, USAF Ret., during a November 2017 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian taped at the museum.

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Get a Close-Up Look at a Missile-Damaged F-100 Super Sabre

Harry Geier, director of marketing and development at the Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, California, gives Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian a close-up look at a missile-damaged F-100 Super Sabre that was being operated “as a drone-target-towing aircraft” near Edwards Air Force Base when it was hit by two rockets (one of which exploded and completely blew off its righthand horizontal stabilizer) during a November 2017 interview at the museum.

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Hudson Institute: ‘Can the United Nations Unite Ukraine?’

“Can the United Nations Unite Ukraine?” a February 2018 report from the Hudson Institute, written by Richard Gowan, non-resident fellow and research director at New York University’s Center on International Cooperation, and a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, proposes ways in which NATO could intervene in Ukraine without launching a formal NATO or EU mission in the country — which the author calls “politically inconceivable” at this point in time. “More credible alternative options include: an operation under U.N. command involving military, police and civilian components; a mission involving an independent military Multinational Force (MNF); and U.N.-led police and civilian elements,” he writes. He adds that the chosen option will have to ensure “a stable and secure environment throughout the Donbas,” enable “elections for representatives to the Ukrainian Rada in eastern Ukraine”   and supervise “public order and the civilian dimensions of reintegration.” 

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