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Svein Efjestad, the policy director at Norway’s defense ministry, discusses lessons from NATO’s Trident Juncture 2018 exercise the country hosted, balancing the Atlantic alliance and Nordic Defense Cooperation, emerging threats like China, cyber and 5G, and the Trump administration’s Cost Plus 50 proposal with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview, conducted at the residence of Sweden’s ambassador to the United States, followed an Atlantic Council event in Washington marking 10th anniversary of the Nordic Defense Cooperation agreement improve collaboration among Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.

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Johan Lagerlöf, the deputy director general and head of strategy and security policy at Sweden’s Defense Ministry, and Maj. Gen. Michael Claesson, Swedish Army, the Swedish Armed Forces’ head of plans and policy who also serves as chairman of the Nordic Defense Cooperation Military Coordination Committee, discuss NORDEFCO’s closer cooperation among Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, the organization’s 2025 plan, Russia, China, cyber and disinformation threats, climate change and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview, conducted at the residence of Sweden’s ambassador to the United States, followed an Atlantic Council event in Washington marking NORDEFCO’s 10th anniversary and what’s next.

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Brig. Gen. Michael Schmidt, USAF, the service’s program executive officer for command, control, communications, intelligence and networks, discusses cyber threats and defenses during an era of great power competition, better cyber hygiene and improving IT networks with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Air Force Association’s 2019 Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando. Our coverage was sponsored by Leonardo DRS and L3 Technologies.

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Tom Modly, the under secretary of the US Navy, discusses the service’s new Educating for Seapower or E4S plan to improve officer and enlisted education to grow more strategic, thoughtful leaders as the critical advantage in great power competition and fields questions about the reported retirement of the USS Harry S. Truman with 30 more years of service life remaining and the rational for shifting resources from purchasing two more San Antonio-class amphibious ships toward more survivable platforms like submarines with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian in his office at the Pentagon.