Raimundas Karoblis, Lithuania’s defense minister, discusses NATO’s Trident Juncture 2018 exercise, Russia and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Reagan National Defense Forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif. Our coverage was sponsored by L3 Technologies and Leonardo DRS.
Carlos Romero, the associate vice president for research at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, discusses Russian disinformation operations during NATO’s recent Trident Juncture 2018 exercise with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted on the sidelines of NATO Allied Command Transformation’s 13th annual Chiefs of Transformation Conference in Norfolk, Va., where our coverage was sponsored by L3 Technologies and Leonardo DRS.
Remy Nathan, the vice president for international affairs at the Aerospace Industries Association, discusses the Trump administration’s new Conventional Arms Transfer Policy with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the association’s Northern Virginia office.
Paul Scharre and Richard Fontaine of the Center for a New American Security discuss Sen. Mark Warner’s, D-Va., call for a national cyber strategy with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the think tank’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. The interview followed an address by Warner calling for a national cyber strategy — https://www.warner.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/blog?id=34CAC7A3-7E87-405D-A38B-D73156C8C907.
Cmdr. George Wallace, USN Ret., author of the best-selling novel “Firing Point” that is now the major motion picture “Hunter Killer” starring Gerard Butler, discusses his work, making a realistic movie about submarine operations with Hollywood star Butler and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Naval Submarine League’s annual symposium. Wallace — who spent a career in submarines culminating in command of USS Houston during which the ship earned a CIA Meritorious Unit Citation — has written or co-written other submarine-themed books including “Final Bearing,” “Operation Golden Dawn,” and “Dangerous Grounds.”
Lt. Gen. Tom Sharpy, USAF, NATO Allied Command Transformation’s deputy chief of staff for capability development, discusses developing new alliance capabilities, exercises, experimentation, wargaming and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at ACT’s 13th annual Chiefs of Transformation Conference in Norfolk, Va. Our coverage is sponsored by L3 Technologies and Leonardo DRS.
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Adm. Manfred Nielson, German Navy, NATO’s Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, discusses capability development, driving innovation, lessons learned from the alliance’s recent Trident Juncture 2018 exercise, great power competition, Russia and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted at the Allied Command Transformation’s 13th annual Chiefs of Transformation Conference in Norfolk, Va. Our coverage was sponsored by L3 Technologies and Leonardo DRS.
Kathleen Hicks, PhD, of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Thomas Mahnken, PhD, of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments — who served on the National Defense Strategy Commission — discuss US defense strategy, making hard tradeoffs and importance of rhetoric in great power competition with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted on the sidelines of the West Coast Aerospace Forum at the Rand Corporation’s headquarters in Santa Monica, Calif. The forum is sponsored by Rand, The Aerospace Corporation, CSIS and the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies.
Tone Skogen, Norway’s deputy defense minister, discusses lessons learned from NATO’s 31-nation Trident Juncture 2018 military exercise simulating an Article V defense of member nation in norther Europe, Russia’s behavior during the exercise and Moscow’s recent seizure of Ukrainian vessels and their crews, and the collision that sank the Norwegian frigate Helge Ingstad with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian during the Reagan National Defense Forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif. Our coverage was sponsored by L3 Technologies and Leonardo DRS.