September 13, 2019

Friday Roundtable Podcast: Sep. 13, 2019

On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, our guests include Bob Hale, former Pentagon comptroller and senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, Todd Harrison, the director of defense budget analysis and the Aerospace Security Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Teri Schultz, a Brussels-based reporter for National Public Radio and Deutsche Welle and Evelyn Farkas, PhD, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine, Eurasia in the Obama administration who is now with the German Marshall Fund and John Tirpak of Air Force Magazine.

Listen to the full conversation on the Defense & Aerospace Report podcast.

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