What's going on with Russia? Seems like the "hawks" are doing some saber rattling and it is rather troubling. Today we talk Dr. Earl Tilford. He worked as Director of Research at the Strategic Studies Institute, the U.S. Army�s strategic research institute charged with looking twenty-five years into the future to approximate the strategic paradigm and then recommending force structures, strategies and weapons systems that might best-fit future national security requirements. From 1969 to 1990, he served as an Air Force intelligence officer with tours in Vietnam and at Headquarters, Strategic Air Command, where he was a nuclear targeting specialist. During his Air Force career, Tilford also served on the faculties at the Air Force Academy and the Air Command and Staff College and was editor of the Air University Review. Participants: Dr. Earl Tilford, Dan Elmendorf