On this Washington Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guests are Dov Zakheim, PhD, former DoD comptroller, now with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Dr. Patrick Cronin of the Hudson Institute, Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, USN Ret., the executive director of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission as well as a fellow with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and Michael Herson of American Defense International.

Topics:

— Congress averts a government shutdown, but NDAA, full-year Continuing Resolution and debt limit increase loom

— Analysis of what we know about the Biden administration’s Global Posture Review that was embraced by President Biden but remains classified

— Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s warning to China that it faces economic devastating if it miscalculates over Taiwan

— Administration efforts to bring region together to better deter Beijing

— Russia’s continued massing of forces on the Ukraine border

— Israel’s call that Washington end a new round of nuclear negotiations with Iran

— What our roundtable expects to hear from participants in this year’s Reagan National Defense Forum

— Results of latest RNDF national security poll that shows declining American public support for the US military