On this episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Strategy Series, sponsored by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Dr. Angela Stent, professor of government and foreign service at Georgetown University and director of its Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies — who also authored the 2019 book “Putin’s World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest” — discusses Russia’s imperial history and nature shapes the country’s outlook and decision-making by leaders like Vladimir Putin, why Putin decided to invade Ukraine when he did, how the Russian leader might be forced from power and his likely successor, the effectiveness of Western sanctions when China as well as India and nations across Africa and Asia continue to trade with Russia, lessons from the Russo-Ukrainian war that can help better deter China from moving against Taiwan, how to the war might end, and what a long-term strategy toward Russia looks like with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

On this episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Strategy Series, sponsored by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Dr. Chris Miller, professor of international history at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, discusses his recent book “Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology,” why chips are so critical to global economic and military power, the global nature of the microchip industry, how America lost its technological lead, China’s strategy to gain chip supremacy, whether the CHIPS Act will return America to its leading position and how Washington should marshal its allies, the impact of the Biden administration’s embargo on ship making technology will delay Beijing’s chip capabilities, how America should balance cooperation and competition with China, the threat from Chinese chips and software in US weapons systems, the feasibility of driving a wedge between China and Russia as the two nations pledge “limitless” partnership, and examples of good and bad strategy with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

On this episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Strategy Series, sponsored by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, John Kirby, a retired US Navy rear admiral and former Pentagon, State Department, and Navy chief spokesman who is now the coordinator for strategic communications at the National Security Council, discusses the changing communications landscape and the increasing need to respond rapidly to emerging news and narratives, the critical importance of story telling when crafting strategic messaging campaigns, why leaders must prioritize communications, how to counter lies and disinformation, reaching audiences in their information silos, bridging the civil-military divide, why a close relationship between a senior leader and their communicator can generate better policy and strategy outcomes, balancing the need for message discipline agains the need to empower subordinates to communicate with agility and speed, and what good messaging strategy looks like with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

Dr. Philip Karber, the president of the Potomac Foundation think tank, discusses the difference between good and bad strategy, the importance of crafting long-term competitive strategies, lessons from Russia’s war on Ukraine, how those lessons apply to China, the need for renewed focus and attention on nuclear warfighting and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. This conversation is sponsored by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems and devoted to the memory of one of the nation’s greatest national security strategists, Andy Marshall, the former director of the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment. The strategy series is not affiliated with the Andrew W. Marshall Foundation.