On this week’s Defense & Aerospace Report Washington Roundtable, Dr. Patrick Cronin of the Hudson Institute, Michael Herson of American Defense International, former Pentagon Europe chief Jim Townsend of the Center for a New American Security, and former Pentagon Comptroller Dr. Dov Zakheim of the Center for Strategic and International Studies join host Vago Muradian to discuss looming government shutdown and Ukraine supplemental, moves to impeach President Biden and continuing transformation of GOP, Ukraine’s offensive and what Kyiv needs from allies and partners including enforcing sanctions on families of sanctioned Russians, China intimidates Philippine coast guard ships, Beijing’s increasing presence around Taiwan and how Chinese leaders will respond to upcoming trip by island nation’s vice president to US and Paraguay, making sense of Biden administration’s new limits on US investment in China, Iran hostages released and Israel’s budget cuts for Arab programs.

On this week’s Defense & Aerospace Report Business Roundtable, sponsored by Bell, Dr. “Rocket” Ron Epstein of Bank of America Securities, Sash Tusa of the independent equity research firm Agency Partners, and Richard Aboulafia of the AeroDynamic Advisory consultancy join Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian to discuss the week on world markets as the Fitch downgrades US credit from AAA to AA+ over concerns that Washington has no plan to deal with burgeoning debt and new job creation was weaker than expected, look at second 2023 quarter earnings as Air Lease, AerCap, BAE Systems, Bombardier, Chemring, Garmin, HII, Howmet, Leidos, Parsons, Rolls-Royce, Spirit AeroSystems, and Triumph report, munitions production as Russia continues to deplete Ukrainian and Western stocks, and US Air Force awards Archer Aviation a contract for six of the company’s Midnight air taxis to test the utility of the concept in military operations.

On this week’s Defense & Aerospace Report Washington Roundtable, Dr. Patrick Cronin of the Hudson Institute, former Pentagon Europe chief Jim Townsend of the Center for a New American Security, and former Pentagon Comptroller Dr. Dov Zakheim of the Center for Strategic and International Studies join host Vago Muradian to discuss implications of the Biden administration’s decision to keep US Space Command in Denver instead of moving it to Alabama as promised by former President Trump as the Alabama delegation that includes the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee Rep., Mike Rogers vows retribution, Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s continuing hold on military promotions, update on Russia’s war on Ukraine as Kyiv gains ground and Russia counterstrikes, what the alliance has to do to step up weapons production as worries most that Ukraine’s allies are already running short, two US sailors accused of spying for China as Chinese malware detected in US military and commercial networks, Beijing sacks top Chinese generals, DoD continues to engage in Indo-Pacific including to defuse tensions with China, and US to put troops on ships to guard against Iranian hijacking, and Israel update.