On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, French Navy Adm. Pierre Vandier, the chief of staff of the French Navy, discusses global naval trends that are shaping his planning, training and investment decisions, France’s strategic role in the Indo-Pacific, increasing Franco-American naval cooperation and interoperability, tougher and more realistic at-sea training for a new generation of naval leaders, modernization priorities, capabilities for France’s next 80,000-ton nuclear powers aircraft carrier, and case for integrated sea-space-cyber power in future conflict with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Dr. Tom Karako, the director of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, discusses the long-range strike as well as integrated air and missile defenses that Russia would bring to bear against Ukraine in the event of an invariant, how Saudi Arabia and UAE are defending against Houthi, North Koreas missile programs, and the US Army’s progress on hypersonic weapons; and Byron Callan of the independent Washington research firm Capital Alpha Partners discusses recent defense and aerospace industry earnings, whether Russia-Ukraine tensions will drive higher European military spending and a look at the week ahead with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Dr. Evelyn Farkas, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia during the Obama administration who now leads the Farkas Global Strategies consultancy, discusses Russia’s gambit in Ukraine, the menus of steps America and its allies can take to deter Moscow or punish it for again invading its neighbor, how Russia might respond to punitive sanctions, and lessons the administration has learned since Putin’s 2014 invasion of Ukraine with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.