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• • Podcast
  • February 19, 2020
  The Overseas Basing Debate, Part 2

  Host Kathleen Hicks continues a discussion with Susanna Blume, Zack Cooper, and Dave Ochmanek on the major debates surrounding U.S. overseas military forces. Listen to the fu...

  By Susanna V. Blume

• • Podcast
  • February 7, 2020
  The Overseas Basing Debate, Part 1

  Host Kathleen Hicks moderates a discussion on the major debates surrounding U.S. overseas military forces with CNAS Defense program director, Susanna Blume, as well as&nb...

  By Susanna V. Blume

• Podcast
  • January 28, 2020
  Building the World’s Biggest Budget

  What do the Pentagon's decisions about military spending say about our priorities as a nation? What goes into the DoD's $700 billion budget each year? Former Pentagon official...

  By Ilan Goldenberg & Susanna V. Blume

• Podcast
  • January 24, 2020
  Armed services continuously make procurement reforms

  There has been years of continuous procurement reform for the Defense Department. Tinkering by Congress has rendered procurement into a sort of laboratory. And each of the arm...

  By Susanna V. Blume

• Podcast
  • January 17, 2020
  Stories from the Backchannel: Season Two Trailer

  Now more than ever, Americans are interested in the people working behind the scenes on consequential national security decisions. In Season Two of Stories from the Backchanne...

  By Ilan Goldenberg, Richard Fontaine, Susanna V. Blume, Kayla M. Williams, Price B. Floyd, Kurt Campbell & Kara Frederick

• • Podcast
  • November 16, 2018
  Susanna V. Blume on Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast

  On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, a Textron company, our guests include Bob Hale,(who now advises Booz Allen Hamilton &m...

  By Susanna V. Blume

• Podcast
  • November 9, 2018
  Susanna V. Blume on Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast

  On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, a Textron company, our guests include Byron Callan of the independent equity research ...

  By Susanna V. Blume

• • Podcast
  • September 28, 2018
  Susanna V. Blume on Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast

  On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, our guests include Byron Callan of the independent equity research firm Capital Alpa Partners, Ilan Berma...

  By Susanna V. Blume

• Podcast
  • May 3, 2018
  Fair Winds and Following Seas to Dr. Jerry Hendrix

  On the latest episode, the team chats topics ranging from acquisition to Zumwalts. In addition to special guest Frank Kendall, former Under Secretary of Defense for ...

  By Susanna V. Blume, Jerry Hendrix, Adam Routh, Lauren Fish & Frank Kendall

• Podcast
  • April 12, 2018
  It's a Space Renaissance!

  This week the team discusses forward basing ships in the Baltic and Black seas and the MQ-25 acquisition. And Former Secretary of the Air Force, The Honorable Deborah Lee Jame...

  By Susanna V. Blume, Jerry Hendrix, Adam Routh, Lauren Fish & Deborah Lee James

• Podcast
  • March 29, 2018
  Readiness? Ready for what?

  This week, the team chats the new National Security Advisor, the 2018 Omnibus, and the White House's National Space Strategy. Also, Susanna discusses military readin...

  By Susanna V. Blume, Jerry Hendrix, Lauren Fish, Adam Routh, Laura Junor & Lacey Raymond

• Podcast
  • March 19, 2018
  Defense & Aerospace Business Report Podcast

  CNAS expert Susanna V. Blume joined in on this week’s episode of the Defense & Aerospace Business Report podcast to discuss ongoing congressional budget deliberations, NATO de...

  By Susanna V. Blume

• Podcast
  • March 15, 2018
  Full Metal Podcast: Are those live nukes?

  This week on Full Metal Podcast the defense team discusses Trump's purposed meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, and Jerry speaks with Congressman Jim Banks (IN-03) o...

  By Jerry Hendrix, Susanna V. Blume, Lauren Fish, Adam Routh & Jim Banks

• • Podcast
  • November 20, 2017
  Eric Fanning and Susanna V. Blume talk NDAA, DoD Budget

  Eric Fanning, former Secretary of the Army, and CNAS fellow Susanna Blume talk about the NDAA, DoD budget, and acquisition reform....

  By Eric Fanning & Susanna V. Blume

• Podcast
  • September 21, 2017
  David Norquist and Bob Hale discuss the Defense Budget

  By David Norquist, Robert F. Hale & Susanna V. Blume

• Podcast
  • September 15, 2017
  A New Push for Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC)

  Susanna Blume, fellow with the CNAS Defense Strategies and Assessments Program, discusses the new push for Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC). Hosted by Neal Urwitz....

  By Neal Urwitz & Susanna V. Blume