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Full Coverage: Atlantic Council's Herbst on Ukraine, Afghanistan
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Atlantic Council’s Herbst: With Afghanistan Plan, Trump Repeating Predecessors’ Mistake

Amb. John Herbst, director of the Atlantic Council’s Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center and former US ambassador to Ukraine and Uzbekistan, says President Donald Trump’s proposed troop surge won’t turn the tide in Afghanistan and that self-imposed limitations on manpower and funding make a US victory there impossible during an Aug. 29, 2017, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the organization’s offices in Washington.

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Defense & Aerospace Business Report [September 5, 2017]

On this week’s episode of the Defense & Aerospace Business Report podcast, sponsored by Bell Helicopter, a Textron company, we discuss United Technologies’ acquisition of Rockwell Collins, North Korea’s latest suspected nuclear test, the impact of a weakening US dollar on the defense industry, the potential defense impacts of Tropical Storm Harvey and more. This week’s guests include Nora Bensahel of American University’s School of International Service and the Atlantic Council, Byron Callan of Capital Alpha Partners, Ron Epstein of Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Sash Tusa of Agency Partners.

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Bloomfield on Statecraft Under President Trump

In a wide-ranging, multi-part interview with Defense & Aerospace Report, Amb. Lincoln Bloomfield, distinguished fellow and chairman emeritus at the Stimson Center, discusses statecraft under President Donald Trump, the outlook for the US State Department under his administration, the proposed US strategy shift in Afghanistan and more. The interview was conducted on Aug. 25, 2017, at Bloomfield’s northern Virginia home.

Full Coverage: AEI's Kagan on US Strategy in Afghanistan
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AEI’s Kagan: US Troops in Afghanistan Should Help ANSDF Become Self-Sufficient

In Part 2 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, said the US military’s presence in Afghanistan should be a “long term support and train advise-and-assist mission” focused on empowering Afghan National Security and Defense Forces to become self-sufficient, but that current troop levels are too low. The interview was conducted at AEI’s Washington headquarters on Aug. 31, 2017.

Full Coverage: AEI's Kagan on US Strategy in Afghanistan
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AEI’s Kagan: Trump ‘Outlined a Framework,’ But Offered No Actual Afghanistan Strategy

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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Stimson Center’s Bloomfield: ‘Justice Is the Most Powerful Concept in World Affairs’

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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‘Game of Thrones’ Meets Missile Defense: Where Would North Korea Fit In Westeros?

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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Former NASA Astronaut Stafford on Gemini VI Mission, First Space Rendezvous

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.

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