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, Todd Harrison of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Dr. Evelyn Farkas, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia who is now the president of Farkas Global Strategies and Chris Servello, a founder of Provision Advisors public relations firm (and Defense and Aerospace team member).

Topics:

— Congressional budget update as House and Senate appropriators hone in on 2022 Pentagon plus up

— Sifting the fact and fiction from China’s hypersonic missile tests earlier this summer

— North Korea’s test firing of its first submarine-launched ballistic missile

— Ensuring Washington retains focus on Russia as it turns greater attention to China

— Importance of the first ever meeting between Josep Burrell, the EU’s foreign affairs and security policy high representative, and Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks

— President Biden’s statement that US has a commitment to support Taiwan in the event of an attack by China

— Analysis of the US Navy’s investigation into the fire that devastated the amphibious assault ship Bonhomme Richard