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Full Coverage: AEI's Kagan on US Strategy in Afghanistan
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In Part 1 of an extensive interview on Afghanistan with Defense & Aerospace Report, Frederick Kagan, PhD, resident scholar, Christopher DeMuth Chair and Critical Threats Project director at the American Enterprise Institute, praises President Donald Trump for acknowledging Afghanistan’s strategic importance in his Aug. 21, 2017, presidential address, but calls his plan for US presence in the country “a framework” versus an actual strategy. The interview was conducted at AEI’s Washington headquarters on Aug. 31, 2017.

Full Coverage: Bloomfield on Statecraft Under President Trump
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In the second installment of a wide-ranging interview with Defense & Aerospace Report, Amb. Lincoln Bloomfield, distinguished fellow and chairman emeritus at the Stimson Center, discusses how the US needs to diversify and exert its international influence to promote security in the midst of changing global power dynamics, and says the US “will be safer” if it’s perceived “as upholding justice.” The interview was conducted on Aug. 25, 2017, at Bloomfield’s northern Virginia home.

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Bruce Klingner, senior research fellow for northeast Asia at the Heritage Foundation’s Asian Studies Center and self-professed “Game of Thrones” fan, discusses where he thinks North Korea would fall on a map of Westeros and translates strategy suggestions into the context of the show’s seventh season during an Aug. 29, 2017, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the think tank’s Washington headquarters.

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In the second installment of Defense & Aerospace Report’s exclusive, multi-part interview with Lt. Gen. Tom Stafford, USAF Ret., former NASA astronaut and former US Air Force acquisition chief, Stafford discusses why he joined NASA and the significance of the Gemini VI mission, during which the US made the world’s first space rendezvous. The interview was taped at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air & Space Museum in Washington on July 20, 2017, the 48th anniversary of the first lunar landing. Stafford flew two Gemini and two Apollo missions, commanding Apollo 10, the dress rehearsal for Apollo 11 that landed man on the moon.

THINK TANK CENTRAL
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In her August 2017 report from the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, Kate Blakeley, CSBA research fellow, paints a picture of today’s rapidly innovating international defense ecosystem and argues that “the U.S. military’s slow-paced acquisition tempo” is a risk to its “technological” competitiveness, citing congressional testimony by US Defense Secretary James Mattis to drive the point home.  “Research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) funding is the pathway by which the U.S. military explores new technologies and capabilities and develops them into weapons systems and platforms,” Blakeley writes. “Maintaining the U.S. military’s current technological advantages and adapting to future challenges requires RDT&E efforts that are robust, targeted at the correct operational problems, and nimble enough to be responsive to shifts in the technological and security landscapes.”

Full Coverage: Atlantic Council's Herbst on Ukraine, Afghanistan
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Amb. John Herbst, director of the Atlantic Council’s Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center and former US ambassador to Ukraine and Uzbekistan, discusses the significance of the US mission to Ukraine, calls Russian “aggression in the Donbas” disastrous and more during an Aug. 29, 2017, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the organization’s offices in Washington.

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Bruce Klingner, senior research fellow for northeast Asia at the Heritage Foundation’s Asian Studies Center, says North Korea’s Aug. 28, 2017, missile launch was “technically” necessary to test the weapon’s “full range,” but calls the decision to launch it over Japan a “really brazen component” during an Aug. 29, 2017, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the think tank’s Washington headquarters.

Military & Aerospace History
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In the first installment of Defense & Aerospace Report’s exclusive, multi-part interview with Lt. Gen. Tom Stafford, USAF Ret., former NASA astronaut and former US Air Force acquisition chief, Stafford discusses what inspired him to fly, why he went to the United States Naval Academy and why he joined the US Air Force after graduation. The interview was filmed at the Smithsonian’s National Air & Space Museum in Washington on July 20, 2017, the 48th anniversary of the United States’ 1969 lunar landing.

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On this week’s episode of the Defense & Aerospace Business Report, sponsored by Bell Helicopter, a Textron company, we discuss the financial impacts of Tropical Storm Harvey, the impact of President Donald Trump’s border wall on federal budget deliberations, the potential implications of a US debt default, Trump’s decision to reauthorize the distribution of excess military equipment to local police departments, and more. This week’s guests include Gordon Adams of American University’s School of International Service and the Stimson Center, Byron Callan of Capital Alpha Partners and former Pentagon comptroller Bob Hale, who is now with the Center for a New American Security’s Defense Strategies and Assessments Program.

Full Coverage: Bloomfield on Statecraft Under President Trump
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In the first installment of a wide-ranging interview with Defense & Aerospace Report editor Vago Muradian, Amb. Lincoln Bloomfield, distinguished fellow and chairman emeritus of the Stimson Center, discusses a recent think piece he co-authored with Tom Harvey, founder and chairman of the Global Environment and Technology Foundation, for “The National Interest” entitled “Statecraft in the Trump Era.” The interview was conducted on Aug. 25, 2017, at Bloomfield’s home in northern Virginia.

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