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Podcast: Defense & Aerospace Report
Episode: Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast [Washington Roundtable Oct 17, ’25]
Description: On this week’s Defense & Aerospace Report Washington Roundtable, Dr. Patrick Cronin of the Hudson Institute think tank, Michael Herson of American Defense International, former PEntagon Europe chief Jim Townsend of the Center for a New American Security, and Pentagon comptroller Dr. Dov Zakheim of the Center for Strategic and International Studies join Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian to discuss what’s next as the US government shutdown enters its third week; President Trump imposition of new sanctions on China as Beijing increasingly demonstrates that it’s no longer cowed by Washington; as the president weighed sending Tomahawk cruise missil...