Ted Harshberger, PhD, the vice president and director of the RAND Corporation think tank’s Project Air Force, discusses the future of air power in an era of great power competition, US Air Force modernization, long-range strike and nuclear thinking with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian on the sidelines of the West Coast Aerospace Forum. The forum is sponsored by RAND, the Aerospace Corporation, the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies and the Center four Strategic and International Studies, and held at RAND’s headquarters in Santa Monica, Calif.