Defense & Aerospace Podcast [Friday Roundtable Jun 07, 2019]

On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, a Textron company, segment one guests include Gordon Adams, PhD, American University professor emeritus and Stimson Center distinguished fellow, Byron Callan of the independent equity research firm Capital Alpa Partners, Susanna Blume of the Center for a New American Security and Bill Greenwalt,  former Pentagon industrial policy chief, now the Atlantic Council.
Our segment two guest include Dov Zakheim, a former Pentagon Comptroller, now on the board of the Atlantic Council think tank, Ilan Berman of the American Foreign Policy Council and Teri Schultz, a Brussels-based reporter for National Public Radio and Deutsche Welle.
Topics:
— House Appropriations and Armed Services’ marks
— Border Wall finding, possible Mexico tariffs and defense 
— Spending caps
— Administration’s “mines to magnets” rare earths strategy 
— Trump’s UK visit
— Drifting Iraq focus
— Shifting Iran Strategy 
— White House Mideast peacemakers proposal