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Chris Griner, partner at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan’s Washington office, and Christopher Brewster, special counsel in the same office, discusses the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (also known as CFIUS or CIFIUS), a congressional proposal to reform its review process and purview, and more during a Dec. 8, 2017, interview in Washington.

Adm. Paul Zukunft, USCG, commandant of the US Coast Guard, says it “must be funded as a military service,” that the “recurring, five-percent annualized growth in” operating expenditures and “two-billion dollar floor” for acquisition he’s requesting will put the Coast Guard on equal footing with the rest of the US military’s services, and more during a Dec. 14, 2017, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at USCG headquarters in Washington.

Amb. Lincoln Bloomfield, distinguished fellow and chairman emeritus at the Stimson Center, discusses President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, shares recommendations for US strategy in Syria, discusses Iran’s future and more during a Dec. 7, 2017, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the National Press Club in Washington. The interview was conducted after the Turkish Heritage Organization’s “Lessons from the Syria Crisis: Old Rivalries, New Dynamics” panel.

Seyed Hossein Mousavian, PhD, the former Iranian ambassador and who now works as a Middle East security and nuclear policy specialist at Princeton University and serves on Iran’s nuclear negotiation team, discusses Iran’s foreign policy, how its definition of terrorism contrasts with the West’s, the Iran nuclear deal and more during a Dec. 7, 2017 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the National Press Club in Washington. The interview was conducted after the Turkish Heritage Organization’s “Lessons from the Syria Crisis: Old Rivalries, New Dynamics” panel.