Duncan Reid, event director for the 2017 Defence and Security Equipment International trade show and exhibition director at Clarion Events, previews this year’s event in a Sept. 10, 2017, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at ExCeL London. Defense & Aerospace Report is covering the event in partnership with DSEI and Clarion Events.
In Part 2 of a Sept. 8, 2017, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report, Brig. Gen. Glenn Hagler, US Army, the US National Guard Bureau’s vice director of domestic operations and force development, discusses lessons learned from responding to catastrophic storms like Hurricanes Andrew, Katrina and Irma. The interview was conducted at the bureau’s national headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. Check out Defense & Aerospace Report’s special coverage of the US military’s response to Hurricane Irma at https://defaeroreport.com/category/special-report-hurricane-irma/.
In Part 3 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, says Pakistan “won’t give up the Taliban” because it needs a “militant proxy” in Afghanistan to keep its influence there and discusses regional politics.
Camille Grand, NATO assistant secretary general for defence investment, says the United Kingdom’s relationship with the European Union needs to be reinvented, and discusses European security challenges and opportunities presented by Brexit during a Sept. 6, 2017, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the 2017 ComDef conference, held at the National Press Club in Washington.
In Part 1 of a Sept. 8, 2017, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report, Brig. Gen. Glenn Hagler, US Army, the US National Guard Bureau’s vice director of domestic operations and force development, explains how the Guard is preparing for and responding to Hurricane Irma and how it plans for disasters. The interview was conducted at the bureau’s national headquarters in Arlington, Virginia.
In Part 1 of his interview with Defense & Aerospace Report, Maj. Gen. Ed Jackson, Jr., US Army, deputy commanding general for civil and emergency operations at the US Army Corps of Engineers, discusses USACE’s role in disaster preparedness, its post-Hurricane-Irma damage-assessment and recovery efforts in US Caribbean territories, and steps it’s taking to prepare for the storm’s imminent landfall in the continental US. The interview was conducted on Sept. 7, 2017, in USACE’s command center, located at its national headquarters in Washington.
In Part 1 of a multi-part interview with Defense & Aerospace Report, Camille Grand, NATO assistant secretary general for defence investment, identifies priorities for NATO’s planned 2018 ministerial meeting in Brussels, Belgium — including revamping its “command structure” and procurement so that it can “act at the speed of relevance.” The interview was conducted on Sept. 6, 2017, during the 2017 ComDef conference at the National Press Club in Washington.
A Sept. 6, 2017, report assembled by a 10-person team of Atlantic Council experts and entitled the “State Department Reform Report,” examines the institution’s “structure and process, personnel, budget, congressional relations, and USAID,” according to a press release, and offers reform recommendations in each of these areas. “The report serves as a foundation for reform efforts that will lead to the empowerment of the State Department at a time when a rapidly evolving global environment consistently poses new challenges and threats,” the release reads. “The department’s role is indeed unique and vital in the US national security apparatus; diplomacy based in continued and robust support for US interests and values is critical to favorable long-term outcomes, including a more secure and stable global environment.”
Maj. Gen. Larry Martin, Jr., USAF, deputy under secretary of the US Air Force, international affairs, says the service is committed to supporting the defense capabilities of Japan and South Korea and emphasizes the strength of US international security partnerships in a Sept. 6, 2017, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian during the 2017 ComDef conference, held at the National Press Club in Washington.
Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Alabama, House Strategic Forces Subcommittee chairman, says the formation of a “Space Corps” within the US Air Force would make space dominance an equal priority to air dominance and speed up acquisitions, identifies goals for the proposed service and more during an interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted during the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ “How to Organize Military Space” symposium on Sept. 6, 2017, in Washington.