Afghan Amb. Hamdullah Mohib; Washington Post's Josh Rogin and Bloomberg's Eli Lake.

07/27/18 • 57 min

This week on the program — from the sidelines of the 2018 Aspen Institute Security Forum: • Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin and Bloomberg's Eli Lake sit down (1:08) with Defense One Executive Editor Kevin Baron to discuss what it's like covering national security in 2018. • Then (30:09) Afghanistan's Ambassador to the U.S., Dr. Hamdullah Mohib, chats with Kevin Baron about the future of that country — where the U.S. military has been fighting for almost 17 consecutive years.

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Charles Lister on the future of Syria; Mara Karlin on fragile states; F-35s and more.

This week on the program: • What’s next for Syria — where militaries from more than half a dozen nations are fighting ISIS and al-Qaeda? We sat down with Charles Lister (1:52) of the Middle East Institute to get his read on Middle East insurgencies, and the internet’s potential to inspire the next generation of terrorists. • Then Mara Karlin of the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies speaks to Brad Peniston (32:21) about three uncomfortable questions Mara says the Pentagon must ask before helping a fragile state. • And we’ll end (59:03) across the pond at the 2018 Farnborough Airshow in the United Kingdom — what the BBC calls the biggest event of the year for the aerospace industry. America’s newest aircraft, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter was there. And so was Defense One’s Global Business Editor Marcus Weisgerber. He takes us beside the airfield where he spoke with Greg Ulmer, Lockheed Martin’s manager for the F-35 program.

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Natasha Bertrand of The Atlantic; Space Force latest; Future of the Iran deal? and more.

This week on the program: • The Atlantic's Natasha Bertrand (1:19) helps us put the Trump-Russia probe into perspective from a national security point of view; • Then (17:42) we'll discuss the latest plans by the Pentagon to march ahead with President Trump's desire for a Space Force — as a combatant command that pulls resources from the various existing services; • And we'll end (22:08) with a discussion on the possible future of the Iran nuclear deal.