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.

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.

Bruce Klingner, senior research fellow for northeast Asia at the Heritage Foundation’s Asian Studies Center, says North Korea’s Aug. 28, 2017, missile launch was “technically” necessary to test the weapon’s “full range,” but calls the decision to launch it over Japan a “really brazen component” during an Aug. 29, 2017, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the think tank’s Washington headquarters.

Daniel Kliman, PhD, senior fellow in the Center for a New American Security’s Asia-Pacific Security Program, lieutenant junior grade in the US Navy Reserve, and former senior advisor for Asia integration in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, says the United States’ “China policy” is broken, shares post-Trans-Pacific Partnership policy recommendations for the Trump administration in Asia, discusses his goals at CNAS, and more during a wide-ranging interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted on August 21, 2017, at CNAS headquarters in Washington.

Capt. Jan van Tol, USN Ret., senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments who commanded a minesweeper, a destroyer and an amphibious assault ship during his career, says the USS John McCain’s capabilities as a destroyer should have allowed it to avoid its Aug. 21, 2017, collision “even at the last moment” and discusses how to break the US Navy’s pattern of accidents during an interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted at CSBA’s Washington headquarters.

Paul Scharre, senior fellow and director of the Center for a New American Security’s Technology and National Security Program, discusses a recent letter from tech industry CEOs to the United Nations calling for a ban on autonomous weapons, CNAS’ new Artificial Intelligence and Global Security Initiative, and his forthcoming book, “Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War,” during an Aug. 24, 2017 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted at the think tank’s Washington offices.

Christopher Balcik, vice president for federal government business at Samsung Electronics America, discusses how smartphones can improve military readiness, the growing demand for “dual-use” mobile devices that can be used both personally and professionally, the company’s new Galaxy Note8 and smartphone trends during an Aug. 23, 2017, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted during the product’s Washington rollout at the Booz Allen Hamilton Innovation Center.