The recent deadly skirmish between China and India in a disputed border area has fueled a necessary debate over how best to respond to an increasingly belligerent Beijing. As the only pressure that moves Beijing is when the world unites against it, it’s imperative the international community quickly organize to compel Chinese leaders to change course before they do something we all will regret.
The urgent coronavirus crisis has not eclipsed pre-existing strategic conundrums like Russian threats to Europe and NATO and the urgency of adapting the alliance to meet them. Moscow shows no sign of negotiating on Ukraine or reducing its information warfare and other threats to European security, quite the opposite.
Wil Van Gemert, Europol’s deputy director general who leads the organization’s operations directorate, discusses terrorism, organized and cyber crime trends with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the EU’s annual defense and security conference in Washington, sponsored by the EU and Foreign Policy.
Col. Alex Crowther, PhD, US Army Ret., senior research fellow for NATO-Europe and cyber policy at the National Defense University’s Center for Strategic Research, discusses the implications of the recent Baltimore cyber ransomware attack and German defense spending outlook with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the European Union’s annual defense and security conference in Washington, sponsored by the EU and Foreign Policy.
Pedro Serrano, the deputy director general for Common Security and Defence Policy and crisis response a the European External Action Service, discusses US concerns with European Union’s Permanent Structured Cooperation and the European Defence Fund, more quickly spotting and stabilizing security challenges before they require military action, preserving the Iran nuclear deal, China and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the EU’s annual defense and security conference in Washington, sponsored by the EU and Foreign Policy.
Amb. Jorge Domecq, the chief executive of the European Defence Agency, discusses improving European Union defense capabilities to bolster NATO, investment priorities and cooperation with the United States with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian one the sidelines of the EU’s annual defense and security conference in Washington that was sponsored by the EU and Foreign Policy.
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.
Mark Fox, global defense programs chief at Amazon Web Services, discusses the company’s scalable facial recognition system, data security and data cost trends with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Supreme Allied Command Transformation’s 2016 Chiefs of Transformation Conference in Norfolk, Virginia, Dec. 13-15, 2016.
James Appathurai, NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy, and NATO Special Representative to the Caucasus and Central Asia, discusses US President-elect Donald Trump, Russia, defense spending, the EU and more to Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian during the 2016 Halifax International Security Forum.