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Reagan National Defense Forum 2018
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Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., the current ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee who will become chairman in January, discusses defense spending outlook, nuclear modernization, Afghanistan strategy and more with Defense & Aerospace Editor Vago Muradian during the Reagan National Defense Forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif. Our coverage was sponsored by L3 Technologies and Leonardo DRS

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Dr. Steven H. Walker director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA) discusses the sixty-year history of the organization, game changing technology introduced to defense and the world, and how the organization will continue to win key tech races into the future during a September 06, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at National Harbor, MD.

THINK TANK CENTRAL
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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.

AWS 2017
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Lt. Gen. David Deptula, USAF Ret., the dean of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, discusses US Air Force priorities, strategies to counter ISIS, and President Trump’s top national security team with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted at the Air Force Association’s 33rd annual Air Warfare Symposium March 1-3, 2017 in Orlando, Florida. The Defense & Aerospace Report’s coverage of the symposium was sponsored by DRS Technologies.

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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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Lewis “Bob” Sorley, military historian and author of “A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America’s Last Years in Vietnam,” discusses the legacy of the late Gen. Andrew Goodpaster, USA Ret., a top advisor to President Dwight Eisenhower who also served as NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander, with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted recently at the Atlantic Council after a panel discussion on Goodpaster’s legacy. Goodpaster served as the Council’s Chairman between 1985 and 1997.

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Brig. Ben Barry, British Army Ret., senior fellow for land warfare at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, discusses global land power trends with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

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Lt. Cmdr. Mica “Taz” Foster, USN, and Aircrewman 1st Class Cory Hedges of Naval Air Station Whidbey Island Search and Rescue discuss lifesaving mission in the Pacific Northwest with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The Interview was conducted in December 2016.