On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guests are Patrick Cronin, PhD, the chair for Asia-Pacific Security at the Hudson Institute and Jonathan Ward, PhD, founder of Atlas Organization, a Washington D.C. and New York based consultancy focused on Chinese and Indian national strategy, on the latest events on the China-India border, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper’s recent opinion piece in The Straits Times and broader Chinese global and regional behavior.

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guest is is Thomas Mahnken, PhD, the president and CEO of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments on his new book “Net Assessment and Military Strategy: Retrospective and Prospective Essays.”

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guest is Matthew Kroenig, a professor of government and foreign service at Georgetown University, and the deputy director of the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council on his new book The Return of Great Power Rivalry: Democracy Versus Autocracy From the Ancient World to the U.S. and China.

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guest in segment one is Bryan Clark, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute on Navy force structure and his recent testimony to the House Armed Service Committee on future technology and operational concepts. In segment two we get a program update from Steve Wiggins, Senior Director Special Operations Solutions at Elbit Systems of America during the recent vSOFIC. Our naval coverage is sponsored by Fincantieri Marinette Marine and our vSOFIC coverage is sponsored by Bell, Elbit Systems of America and Leonardo DRS.

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guest is Chris Brose, Head of Strategy for Anduril Industries and author of The Kill Chain, on competition with China, defense investments and national security initiatives needed to stem the United States’ sliding military superiority to Chinese technology and military capability. 

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guest in segment one is Chris Servello, a founder of Provision Advisors (and Defense and Aerospace team member) where we review the key news and commentary from the past week. In segment two we are joined by Kevin Billings, former assistant secretary of the US Air Force for installations, environment & logistics, president & CEO of Legation Strategies and president of the Billy Fiske Foundation on what can be learned from WWII hero Billy Fiske on taking a stand and making sacrifices.

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guests are “Rocket Ron” Epstein, PhD, of Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Richard Aboulafia of the Teal Group consultancy on the Trump Administrations decision to ban all commercial passenger flights by Chinese carriers beginning later this month, as well as Darrell Bricker, PhD, the CEO of Ipsos Public Affairs on global trends and polling associated with COVID-19.

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guests are Kori Schake, PhD, director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and Chris Servello, a founder of Provision Advisors (and Defense and Aerospace team member) on the civil military implications of comments and deployments decisions by President Trump and Defense Department leaders in response to recent protests in Washington, DC and around the country.

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guest is…