November 16, 2018

Susanna V. Blume on Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast

On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, a Textron company, our guests include Bob Hale,(who now advises Booz Allen Hamilton — his views are his own), Steven Grundman of the Grundman Advisory and the Atlantic Council, Susanna Blume of the Center for a New American Security, 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.

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