Europe

AWS 2019
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USAFE’s Wolters on Russia, INF, Hypersonic Threat, Summer Surge Exercises

Gen. Tod “Magoo” Wolters, USAF, the commander of the US AIr Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa, discusses NATO’s Trident Juncture exercise, strategy in the wake of the US withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, monitoring the Russia threat, countering hypersonic weapons, summer surge exercises, alliance defense spending and military construction funding with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted at the Air Force Association’s 2019 Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando where our coverage was sponsored by L3 Technologies and Leonardo DRS.

NATO COTC 2018
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NATO’s Bennett on Driving Innovation, Capability Development

Vice Adm. Paul Bennett, Royal Navy, NATO Allied Command Transformation’s chief of staff, discusses driving innovation, the command’s 13th annual Chiefs of Transformation Conference, capability development and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. Our coverage of the conference was sponsored by L3 Technologies and Leonardo DRS.

Halifax International Security Forum 2018
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Ukraine’s Klimkin on Continuing Crisis with Russia, Moscow’s Provocations

Pavlo Klimkin, Ukraine’s foreign minister, discusses the ongoing crisis with Russia and Moscow’s continuing provocations with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Halifax International Security Forum in Nova Scotia, Canada. The interview was conducted before Russia seized three Ukrainian naval vessels in the Azov Sea off the coast of Crimea that Moscow annexed in 2014. Our coverage is sponsored by L3 Technologies and Leonardo DRS.

THINK TANK CENTRAL
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CNAS: Drone Proliferation and the Use of Force

As more countries acquire drones, will their widespread availability lead to greater military adventurism and conflict? Will countries be more willing to put a drone in harm’s way? If so, how will other nations respond? Would they be more willing to shoot down a drone than a human-inhabited aircraft? And if they did, are those incidents likely to escalate? To help answer these questions, in 2016 the Center for a New American Security conducted a survey experiment to better understand how experts and the general public viewed the use of force with drones.

VIDEOS
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CSBA’s Edelman on US Strategy for a “Europe Whole and Free”

Amb. Eric Edelman, counselor at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, discusses a new report, “US Strategy for Maintaining a Europe Whole and Free,” with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The report, co-authored by Edelman and Whitney Morgan McNamara, is among four reports in a recent CSBA strategy series.

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IISS’ Hackett on 2017 Edition of The Military Balance

James Hackett, senior fellow for defense and military analysis at the International Institute for Strategic Studies who also edits IISS’ Military Balance 2017, discusses global defense trends with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. This year’s Military Balance was released on Feb. 14, 2017, in London and is the first edition since 1989 with an online component, The Military Balance +, with searchable data bases on forces, defense economics and military capabilities found in the report.

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CSIS’ Conley on US Arctic Strategy, Russia and NATO

Heather Conley, senior vice president for Europe, Eurasia and Arctic at the Center for Strategic and International Security, discusses US arctic strategy, Russia and NATO with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted on Jan. 23, 2017, at CSIS following a panel discussion on US acrtic strategy.