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Arctic security, with U.S. Coast Guard Adm. Karl Schultz
June 04, 2020 21:47 - 1 hour - 41.3 MBU.S. Coast Guard Adm. Karl Schultz explains how his service is responding to growing access to the arctic, which is quickly becoming a place for great powers like Russia, China and the U.S. to compete and try to outmaneuver one another. Then we'll hear from arctic policy wonks David Auerswald of the National War College and Abbie Tingstad of the RAND Corporation. This episode is sponsored by Booz Allen Hamilton.
Robotics, Esports and the future of national security
May 22, 2020 03:23 - 42 minutes - 29.3 MBThis episode we'll hear from Peter W. Singer and August Cole, the authors of “Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution.” The title comes from the term for deliberately pushing technology to the breaking point, in order to learn from it. Then we'll pivot to military recruiting and the world of competitive video gaming when we speak to Sergeant First Class Chris Jones, the NCO-in-charge of the U.S. Army's Esports team. // Music by Gareth Johnson, Kes Loy and Gavin Harrison, as well a...
“The World: A Brief Introduction,” with Richard Haass
May 12, 2020 21:59 - 45 minutes - 31.6 MBRichard Haass is president of the Council on Foreign Relations. His book “The World: A Brief Introduction” is available for purchase online today. This episode is sponsored by Booz Allen Hamilton.
How Americans view the U.S. role in the world, with Ivo Daalder
May 08, 2020 16:43 - 29 minutes - 20.2 MBToday we’re going to look at America’s changing place in a rapidly-changing world. It’s part of a broader series of reporting, commentaries and discussions Defense One and the Center for a New American Security are hosting throughout the year. They’re all inspired by the theme of military readiness in 2020. And we’re calling it the American Readiness Project. The guiding question is this: Are Americans ready, willing, and able to be the global security leaders of this century? This episod...
Gen. Martin Dempsey with Defense One’s Kevin Baron
April 23, 2020 17:59 - 1 hour - 42.3 MBRetired U.S. Army Gen. Martin Dempsey has a new book coming out in May called “No Time For Spectators: The Lessons That Mattered Most From West Point To The West Wing.” Dempsey talks about politics and leadership during a pandemic; why the U.S. didn't do more in Syria sooner, and more. This episode is sponsored by Booz Allen Hamilton.
Gen. Martin Dempsey
April 23, 2020 17:59 - 1 hour - 42.3 MBRetired U.S. Army Gen. Martin Dempsey has a new book coming out in May called “No Time For Spectators: The Lessons That Mattered Most From West Point To The West Wing.” Dempsey talks about politics and leadership during a pandemic; why the U.S. didn't do more in Syria sooner, and more. This episode is sponsored by Booz Allen Hamilton.
The 1918 flu and the U.S. military
April 11, 2020 01:50 - 27 minutes - 19.3 MBMore American soldiers died from the flu in 1918 than died from combat in World War I. And more Americans died from that 1918 flu pandemic than died from all the wars in the last century. That's why we’re gonna learn a bit more about what the Influenza of 1918 did to the U.S. military. Special Guest: Angry Staff Officer Part One: The First Wave (at the 1:35 mark); Part Two: The Second Wave (11:40); Part Three: The Show Must Go On (22:38). Find a transcript of this episode here. F...
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Preparing for the next coronavirus: COVID-19 lessons learned
March 28, 2020 03:25 - 39 minutes - 27.4 MBPart One: The costs of acknowledging a pandemic, with Annie Lowrey of The Atlantic (at the 3:29 mark); find her report, "Quantifying the Coming Recession," here. Part Two: On China's initiative and trustworthiness, with Peter W. Singer of New America (at 12:34); find Singer's two pieces on China here and here; Part Three: The downside of ‘America First’ and the upside of America, with Kori Schake of the American Enterprise Institute (at 27:56); find her op-ed, "'America First' Is Ma...
Coronavirus and national security
March 13, 2020 05:41 - 41 minutes - 28.6 MBWe decided to take stock of how the coronavirus and the disease it causes, Covid-19, are affecting the U.S. government and the national security establishment. So we’re try to figure out what maybe to expect next. Guests include Defense One Global Business Editor Marcus Weisgerber (at the 3:10 mark), Defense One National Security Correspondent Katie Bo Williams (11:27), Ross Gianfortune of the podcast "GovExec Daily" (at 20:26), and Defense One's Tech Editor Patrick Tucker (at the 30:31 ma...
War in space
March 06, 2020 20:27 - 36 minutes - 25.3 MBThe United States Space Force is now officially a thing, complete with a commander and plans to put about 16,000 members of the military to work defending U.S. interests in space. But what exactly does it mean for the U.S. military to “deter aggression” in space? How could a war in space happen? And what are American interests in space, anyway? This episode, we’re going to answer those questions as best we can with the help of four experts on space weapons and policy and strategy: Jeffrey Le...
Wagner and Russian private military contractors
January 15, 2020 02:04 - 38 minutes - 26.6 MBWe’re going to take a closer look at Russian private military contractors. How much do we understand about what these groups are up to? And how much should the U.S. and its allies be concerned? It’s a phenomenon with a history; and it’s something that doesn’t seem to be going away anytime soon. The episode is broken into four parts: • Behind the Battle of Khasham (at the 1:53 mark) • Prigozhin's Path (8:09) • An Ignominious Invasion (23:16) • Into Africa (27:47) Guests include Kimberly Marte...
The future of influence operations
December 16, 2019 23:13 - 51 minutes - 70.4 MBWith less than a year until the next U.S. election, we’ve got a few experts to help break down what they think is ahead in U.S.-directed influence operations. They include Alina Polyakova of the Brookings Institution; Clint Watts of the Foreign Policy Research Institute and the Alliance for Securing Democracy; retired CIA agent John Sipher; and (briefly) Mark Galeotti of the Royal United Services Institute. // Music is by Paul Mottram; Bob Bradley; David O'Brien; Lincoln Grounds; and Matt Hil...
Influence operations in 2020
December 16, 2019 23:13 - 51 minutes - 70.2 MBWith less than a year until the next U.S. election, we’ve got a few experts to help break down what they think is ahead in U.S.-directed influence operations. They include Alina Polyakova of the Brookings Institution; Clint Watts of the Foreign Policy Research Institute and the Alliance for Securing Democracy; retired CIA agent John Sipher; and (briefly) Mark Galeotti of the Royal United Services Institute. // Music is by Paul Mottram; Bob Bradley; David O'Brien; Lincoln Grounds; and Matt Hi...
A conversation with Pakistan’s Ambassador to the U.S., Dr. Asad Majeed Khan
November 27, 2019 19:59 - 34 minutes - 47.3 MBDefense One's Patrick Tucker sat down with Pakistan’s top diplomat in Washington to discuss the U.S. troop pullout in Afghanistan, the worsening situation in Kashmir, and efforts to fight extremism.
The future of European security
November 13, 2019 21:12 - 40 minutes - 56.3 MBThis episode we'll discuss the NATO alliance and how some military tactics are changing in the face of strategic threats from Russia. We’ll also assess some of the more recent responses to wider global trends like populism and how, in some parts of Europe, Chinese soft power is already influencing culture, politics and security. // Music this week from Igor Dvorkin, Duncan Pittock, Ellie Kidd; Joe Henson and Alexis Smith; David O'Brien and Chris Egan; Philip Guyler; Terry Devine-King; Paul C...
Some notes on the future of European security
November 13, 2019 21:12 - 40 minutes - 56.3 MBThis episode we'll discuss the NATO alliance and how some military tactics are changing in the face of strategic threats from Russia. We’ll also assess some of the more recent responses to wider global trends like populism and how, in some parts of Europe, Chinese soft power is already influencing culture, politics and security. // Music this week from Igor Dvorkin, Duncan Pittock, Ellie Kidd; Joe Henson and Alexis Smith; David O'Brien and Chris Egan; Philip Guyler; Terry Devine-King; Paul Cl...
Wargames
October 29, 2019 20:03 - 49 minutes - 67.6 MBThis episode we'll learn why the Pentagon and the U.S. defense establishment are increasingly turning to wargames and simulations; what famous games of the past got right, and wrong; and why we still need experts who strategize almost exclusively in the analog world of plastic chips and toy soldiers and hexagon maps. Guests include Becca Wasser, Stacie Pettyjohn, Ellie Bartels, Christopher Rice and Mark Herman. // Music by Terry Devine-King, Nathan Feddo, Henry White, Ben Watson, Joe Henson ...
The future of the U.S. military in Syria (for now)
October 18, 2019 06:42 - 56 minutes - 78.1 MBWhat does it mean for the future of international security to almost completely pull the U.S. military out of Syria? This episode, we investigate that and a lot more with Dana Stroul of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Charles Lister of the Middle East Institute, and Melissa Dalton of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
10 trips to Afghanistan, with Kevin Maurer
September 25, 2019 18:43 - 35 minutes - 48.2 MBAmerica’s war in Afghanistan turns 18 in October. And one journalist has been making trips to the country since 2004. North Carolina-based author Kevin Maurer joins us to talk about what’s new from his latest trip in January, what never really changed in 14 years, and how some U.S. soldiers derive meaning from the longest conflict in the nation's history. Find Maurer's essay in the Washington Post Magazine here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/magazine/wp/2019/09/09/feature/the-afghanist...
Doomsday machines, nuclear hurricanes and Russian spies, with Vince Houghton
September 12, 2019 20:28 - 53 minutes - 74 MBVince Houghton, historian and curator of the International Spy Museum, joins us to talk about more than just the U.S. military’s plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon, he also explains a few American efforts to kill Cuba’s Fidel Castro, as well as bold Russian operations today — and one Soviet idea that would have killed everyone decades ago. Vince's new book, "The Nuclear Spies America's Atomic Intelligence Operation against Hitler and Stalin," comes out Sept. 15. Our music this week ...
Defense Intelligence Agency’s Lt. Gen. Robert Ashley
August 21, 2019 20:28 - 23 minutes - 32.1 MBToday we’re going to hear from the U.S. military’s top intelligence official, Lt. Gen. Robert Ashley, who directs the Defense Intelligence Agency. Defense One Tech Editor Patrick Tucker sat down with Lt. Gen. Ashley Monday in Tampa. The general answered 10 questions about the Pentagon’s evolving tech needs in Afghanistan, cloud computing across the services, cyber defense, machine learning, China, North Korea, and quite a bit more.
Civilian casualty reporting and the war on ISIS with Alexa O’Brien and Chris Woods
August 16, 2019 18:19 - 36 minutes - 50.1 MBWe’re joined by journalist Alexa O’Brien and Chris Woods, the founder and director of Airwars. They published a report in July that revealed big gaps in Western media coverage of civilian harm from the U.S.-led airstrike campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Find that report online here: https://airwars.org/report/news-in-brief-us-media-coverage-of-civilian-harm/
Ali Wyne on the U.S., China and "Great Power Competition"
August 05, 2019 21:37 - 1 hour - 103 MBToday we sit down for an extended discussion with Ali Wyne of Rand. Wyne dropped by our studios for an in-depth chat questioning some of the core goals of that American strategy, why it has risen to the top of U.S. national security doctrine, and a lot more.
Magnus Nordenman on Russia, the U.S., and "The New Battle for the Atlantic"
August 02, 2019 21:59 - 24 minutes - 33.4 MBThis episode, we sit down with Magnus Nordenman, who just wrote a book on the evolution of America’s naval competition with Russia in the Far North called "The New Battle for the Atlantic."
Cyberwarfare yesterday
July 27, 2019 15:47 - 43 minutes - 60.2 MBThis episode, we survey the history of cyberwarfare — from the ascent of China-linked hackers this century to the arrest of a Soviet-linked hacker 30 years ago, and a lot in between. Find a transcript of this episode, along with a table of 50 key events in the history of the domain, here: https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2019/07/ep-50-cyberwarfare-yesterday/158750/ Find the full C-Span interview with Cliff Stoll in 1989, here: http://www.booknotes.org/Watch/10122-1/Clifford-Stoll
Cyberwarfare tomorrow
July 20, 2019 00:35 - 49 minutes - 68.6 MBThis episode, we turn to the future world of cyberwarfare — from life after encryption to the 5G debate, from the next election to the next generation of cyber professionals, and a lot more. Our guests include: • Dawn Thomas, Associate Director and Research Analyst on the Safety and Security team of CNA; • Paul Gagliardi, a former U.S. intelligence contractor and current threat intelligence analyst at SecurityScorecard; • Dmitri Alperovitch, co-Founder and CTO at CrowdStrike; • Adam Segal, ...
Cyberwarfare today
July 12, 2019 21:38 - 48 minutes - 67 MBIn the first of a three-part podcast series, we're going to look at the contemporary risks of cyber warfare, from ransomware and extortion to online banking and culture wars. Our guests include: • Dawn Thomas, associate director and research analyst on the Safety and Security team of CNA; • Paul Gagliardi, a former U.S. intelligence contractor and current threat intelligence analyst at SecurityScorecard; • information security researcher the Grugq; • Adam Segal, who directs the Digital and C...
Mosul, revisited (part two) with Mike Giglio and Dan Gabriel
July 05, 2019 02:12 - 34 minutes - 47.8 MBWe continue our remembrance of the Iraqi and coalition forces pushing the Islamic State group out of Mosul two years ago this week. This week we’ll hear from Mike Giglio, national security correspondent for The Atlantic. He was embedded with Iraqi special forces when the Mosul offensive kicked off in late 2016. And he’s got a book coming out on it this autumn. Then we’ll hear from former CIA man Dan Gabriel, who just produced a documentary called “Mosul.” Read more about the film online here...
Mosul, revisited (part one) with Omar Mohammed of Mosul Eye
June 27, 2019 17:10 - 58 minutes - 79.8 MBThis episode, we travel to Paris to meet a historian from Mosul named Omar Mohammed. He's the man behind the secretive blog and Twitter account "Mosul Eye" (@mosuleye). He’ll tell us all about his life, his family, his love of Mosul’s history, and his concerns for the future of Mosul, Iraq and the greater Middle East. Read more about the 2016-17 Mosul offensive in our special report here https://www.defenseone.com/feature/mosul-largest-battle-decade-future-of-war/ Next week we’ll be back wit...
Former Defense Secretary Ash Carter
June 20, 2019 14:02 - 34 minutes - 47.2 MBThis episode, we’re joined by Dr. Ash Carter, who just published "Inside the Five-Sided Box: Lessons from a Lifetime of Leadership in the Pentagon." He first started working at the Pentagon in 1981, and wound up playing an unlikely role in the so-called “Star Wars” missile defense program during the Reagan administration. Nowadays, he works at Harvard where he directs the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School. Carter sat down with Defense One to talk about...
Global Business Brief: Interview with UK Minister Counsellor Defence Edward Ferguson
June 05, 2019 16:36 - 22 minutes - 30.3 MBGlobal Business Editor Marcus Weisgerber and Ben Watson talked with the UK’s Minister Counsellor Defence Edward Ferguson about F-35s, aircraft carriers, NATO, Russia, the South China Sea, deterrence, the defence secretary, arms sales, and more.
Under Secretary Andrea Thompson and Kori Schake, live from the Shangri-La Defense Dialogue
June 04, 2019 17:50 - 51 minutes - 71.3 MBThis episode we bring you two conversations with Defense One Executive Editor Kevin Baron from the Shangri-La Defense dialogues — which happened this past weekend in Singapore. Kevin sat down with the State Department’s Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Affairs, Andrea Thompson, at the 26:34 mark. But first, Baron spoke with Dr. Kori Schake, the Deputy Director-General of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, at the 0:49 mark.
Nuclear weapons awareness in the 20th and 21st centuries
April 30, 2019 20:09 - 1 hour - 86.6 MBNuclear weapons have taken on growing importance during the Trump presidency. Today we’re going to speak with a couple of researchers and analysts — Erin Connolly of the Center for Arms Control, and Jamie Withorne of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies — who have been thinking about nukes and the cultural and political issues surrounding them throughout the country. (That begins at the 3:41 mark.) And we’ll end (25:34) with a retrospective looking back at the dangerous days ...
Escalating in Somalia
April 09, 2019 19:31 - 49 minutes - 45.5 MBThis episode we’re going to look into why the U.S. military is escalating its air campaign in Somalia (at the 2:19 mark). We'll look into the larger strategy to which this is aimed (10:44). And (22:46) we'll ask if there are 21st-century lessons the U.S. military is learning from the same war-torn country that gave it “Blackhawk Down” almost 30 years ago. We’ll hear from a professor who has been studying the Somali National Army for quite a while now (Dr. Paul Williams of George Washington U...
Climate change versus the U.S. military
March 30, 2019 22:04 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MBHow has climate change cost the United States military already? And what sort of costs can the Defense Department expect to pay in the future? In this episode, we’re going to investigate matters of "resilience" and base design as part of a broader look at how climate change will likely affect the U.S. military in the years ahead. • Chapter 1: The damage (at the 2:03 mark) • Chapter 2: A turning point. (22:23) • Chapter 3: Adaptations (32:40) We’ll hear from a man who was the Navy’s chief oce...
Missile defense and hybrid war
March 07, 2019 20:57 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBWe’re going to extend a few of the conversations we began last week when we dug into the future of U.S.-Russian relations. • Professor Mark Galeotti returns (at the 1:38 mark) to tell us a bit more about Vladimir Putin and why corruption is a much bigger problem for Europe than disinformation. • Then (7:00) we’ll pivot to all things missile-related with a conversation between our very own Marcus Weisgerber and Tom Karako, director of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic an...
What comes after Putin? Assessing the future of US-Russian relations
March 01, 2019 18:18 - 46 minutes - 43.1 MBThis week we’re going to take a look at Russia and the future of the U.S.-Russian relationship, in three chapters: • After Putin (at the 1:30 mark); • Before Putin (17:14); • Now what (28:16). We'll revisit a battle against the Mongols 639 years ago, move ahead to Putin’s “zoo” of scary long-range weapons unveiled last year, and all the way forward to the challenges that come well after the Department of Justice’s Trump-Russia probe here in 2019. Our guests this week are Michael Carpenter, S...
The CCP vision and the future of Chinese history
February 19, 2019 14:31 - 44 minutes - 41.4 MBChapter one: Staying in power (at the 1:24 mark); Chapter two: Revising history (19:57); Chapter three: Some thoughts about how to move forward (37:53). Like last week, our guests include Samantha Hoffman of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute; Elsa Kania of the Center for a New American Security; Greg Poling of the Center for Strategic and International Studies; Andrew Wilson of the U.S. Naval War College (not speaking on behalf of the Navy or the Defense Department); and Pamel...
Beyond South China Sea tensions, part two: The CCP vision and the future of Chinese history
February 19, 2019 14:31 - 44 minutes - 41.4 MBWe’re going to continue our exploration of the U.S.-China relationship, which we began last week with our investigation into the history of tensions between the U.S. and Chinese navies in and around the South China Sea. This week we turn our attention to the future. Specifically the how the Chinese Communist Party views its future. Because the more we spoke with analysts and observers about the South China Sea, the more we heard we ought to look not only at that troubled body of water you can...
Beyond South China Sea tensions, part one: The Tinderbox
February 08, 2019 21:47 - 43 minutes - 40 MBThis week on the program, we’re going to explore the U.S.-China relationship beginning with tensions in and around the South China Sea. It's broken up into three parts: 1. How did all this begin? (at the 2:58 mark) 2. What's in it for Beijing? (11:16) 3. Where to go and what to know from here (24:28) Our guests include Samantha Hoffman of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute; Elsa Kania of the Center for a New American Security; Greg Poling of the Center for Strategic and International S...
Beyond South China Sea tensions: The Tinderbox
February 08, 2019 21:47 - 43 minutes - 40 MBThis week on the program, we’re going to explore the U.S.-China relationship beginning with tensions in and around the South China Sea. It's broken up into three parts: 1. How did all this begin? (at the 2:58 mark) 2. What's in it for Beijing? (11:16) 3. Where to go and what to know from here (24:28) Our guests include Samantha Hoffman of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute; Elsa Kania of the Center for a New American Security; Greg Poling of the Center for Strategic and International ...
British defense strategy with UK MoD’s Will Jessett
January 17, 2019 14:02 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MBThis week on the program, we turn our ear to America’s ally across the pond, the United Kingdom. Our guest is Will Jessett — the current Director for Strategic Planning at the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence in London. Our Global Business Editor Marcus Weisgerber sat down with Will to talk though the UK’s new defense modernization review, released in December, and how the British defense world is planning for an uncertain future of Russian revanchism and possibly expanded integration with ...
After Mattis + Shutdown’s effect on national security
January 11, 2019 06:42 - 34 minutes - 32 MBThis week on the program: • It's a new year, and we have a new defense secretary — an acting one anyway, for now. Parts of the U.S. government are shut down over the border wall President Trump promised in his election campaign. • The bottom line up front: This does not appear to be a time of order or coherence in the White House. There are lots of posts filled by folks in acting roles, including the Pentagon’s top job. • We'll go over the new SecDef (beginning at the 2:43 mark), the shutdown...
Averting war with North Korea
December 29, 2018 23:17 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MBFor the first time ever in 2018, a president of the United States spoke face to face with the leader of North Korea. Yet six months later, the Korean peninsula remains one of the world’s three most dangerous flash points. • On this, our final episode of the year, we’re going to revisit what we learned about the two Koreas, President Trump and the future of the peninsula. We’ll be joined by about a half-dozen guests, including Melissa Hanham, Joshua Pollack, Joe Cirincione, Uri Friedman and Je...
What's ahead for Syria + why ISIS is not defeated yet
December 21, 2018 19:18 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBPresident Trump stunned many across the world this week when he declared ISIS had been defeated. Now he wants America’s roughly 2,000 troops out of northeastern Syria, where they’ve been fighting alongside local Arab and mostly Kurdish forces since October 2015. It’s a demand that wasn’t necessarily without warning. And it’s a decision so controversial Defense Secretary Jim Mattis became the first defense secretary in U.S. history to resign in protest of a sitting U.S. president’s policies. •...
The $750 billion military; USAF’s Kessel Run; Happy Birthday to the Guard, and more.
December 14, 2018 17:02 - 41 minutes - 37.9 MBThis week on the program: • President Trump abruptly reversed course and now wants $750 billion for the U.S. military in fiscal year 2020 — a sudden $50 billion increase over his old plans. We’ll ask why the change might have happened, and what’s $50 billion really in the big picture? Global Business Editor Marcus Weisgerber posed those questions and more to Todd Harrison of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (beginning at the 2:25 mark). • Then (22:10) we’ll mark the birthday...
The true origins of ISIS and the future of counterterrorism with Hassan Hassan
December 07, 2018 14:15 - 48 minutes - 44.3 MBThis week on the program: • The true origins of the Islamic State terrorist group. Hassan Hassan, a Syrian-born scholar of the Middle East, recently found a 93-page document from ISIS chronicling the jihadi landscape of pre-9/11 Iraq. New details show that the man originally thought to have created ISIS — Abu Musab al-Zarqawi — was not at all the group’s creator. Hassan tells us all about a man named Abu Ali al-Anbari and this new, revised history of al-Qaeda in Iraq. • Then in our second hal...
Ukraine-Russia tensions w/ Ben Hodges; Space Force!?; Nuclear anthropology and US folklore
November 30, 2018 21:58 - 41 minutes - 38.1 MBThis week on the program: • Crisis in the Sea of Azov. We’ll talk about the latest in Ukraine-Russia tensions (at the 1:58 mark) with some input from retired Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, the former commander of U.S. Army Europe, and Defense One’s Patrick Tucker. • We’ve got some news on President Trump’s push for a Space Force. Our own Marcus Weisgerber will fill us in on that (11:23). • And we’ll end today (22:43) with a visit to the crossroads of anthropology and nuclear weapons. Martin Pfeiffer,...
Ambassador James Jeffrey on Syria; Plus Sue Mi Terry of CSIS and Evan Medeiros
November 16, 2018 18:04 - 1 hour - 57.1 MBThis week on the program: • How does the conflict in Syria end? Ambassador James Jeffrey, the U.S. State Department's Special Representative for Syria Engagement, sat down (at the 1:56 mark) with CNN’s Elise Labott for our 2018 Defense One Summit this Thursday in Washington. We’ll bring you that discussion with the often blunt ambassador. • Then (33:39) we’ll turn to a discussion about conflict, competition and the future of security in Asia. NBC’s Dan DeLuce sat down with Sue Mi Terry of the...