Vice Adm. Mat Winter, USN, the program executive officer for the F-35 Lightning II fighter, discusses program accomplishments, next hurdles, improving program performance, production rates and introducing new capabilities with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
Kasper Høeg-Jensen, the head of the security policy and operations department of Denmark’s ministry of defense, discusses closer Nordic cooperation, NATO, Greenland, China, 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 10th anniversary of the Nordic Defense Cooperation agreement to improve collaboration among Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.
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.
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.
Amb. (Ret.) Doug Lute, a retired US Army lieutenant general who served as US ambassador to NATO, and Amb. (Ret.) Nick Burns, one of America’s top former diplomats who also served as US ambassador to NATO — both now affiliated with Harvard University — discuss their new report “NATO at Seventy: An Alliance in Crisis” and the vital importance of the Atlantic Alliance and America’s role in it with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted at the Center for a New American Security where the report by Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs was publicly released.
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.
Tom Karako, the missile defense expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, discusses the Trump administration’s decision to exit the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia and future systems with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The conversation also included a recap of a Feb. 1, 2019, panel discussion on what’s next now that the administration has completed its Missile Defense Review, hosted by Karako at the think tank, that included Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy David Trachtenberg and Lt. Gen. Sam Greaves, USAF, the director of the Missile Defense Agency.
Qualifications, however, will be secondary to personal loyalty when Trump makes a choice that will have major implications for national and international security for many years to come.
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.
Camille Grand, NATO assistant secretary general for defense investment, discusses accelerating alliance acquisition programs and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at NATO Allied Command Transformation’s 13th annual Chiefs of Transformation Conference in Norfolk, Va. Our coverage was sponsored by L3 Technologies and Leonardo DRS.