Defense One Radio
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Episodes
Panelists:
- Derek M. Tournear, Ph.D., Director, Space Development Agency;
- Bill Vass, CTO, Booz Allen;
- And Frank Konkel, Editor-in-Chief, Government Executive.
View more of this year's Tech Summit discussions on YouTube here.
Speakers:
- Christian Brose, President and Chief Strategy Officer, Anduril Industries;
- And Patrick Tucker, Defense One’s science and technology editor.
View more of this year's Tech Summit discussions (registration required) here.
Panelists:
- Air Force Maj. Gen. Mark Piper, Deputy Director of Operations at North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD);
- Masao Dahlgren, fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Missile Defense Project;
- Doug Loverro, president of Loverro Consulting;
- And Patrick T...
Guests:
- Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov in conversation with Defense One’s Patrick Tucker on the sidelines of the GLOBSEC 2025 conference in Prague.
Defense One is media partner for this year's 20th edition of the GLOBSEC Forum in Prague.
Guests:
- Philippe Lavigne, a retired French general, was Chief of Staff of the French Air and Space Force from 2018 to 2021, then NATO's transformation chief for three years.
As media partner for this year's 20th edition of the GLOBSEC Forum in Prague, Defense One is sharing a series of special pre-conference interviews exploring th...
Guests:
- Brandon Tseng, co-founder and president of Shield AI, in conversation with Defense One's Patrick Tucker.
As media partner for this year's 20th edition of the GLOBSEC Forum in Prague, Defense One is sharing a series of special pre-conference interviews exploring the future of defense, technological innovation, the changing b...
Guests:
- Marine Lt. Gen. Roger B. Turner of the III Marine Expeditionary Force, and the 3D Marine Division's Maj. Gen. Christian F. Wortman, in conversation with Defense One's Jennifer Hlad.
You can view our other 2025 State of Defense interviews here.
Guests:
- Command Sergeant Major JoAnn Nauman, Command Senior Enlisted Leader of Army Special Operations Command, in conversation with Defense One's Meghann Myers and Ben Watson.
Related reading:
- "Army establishes new fitness test of record to strengthen readiness and lethality," published April 21, 2025;
- "Setting Higher Close C...
Guest:
- U.S. Army chief of staff Gen. Randy George, interviewed by Defense One’s Patrick Tucker.
Catch our full State of Defense agenda and future events, here.
Guest:
- U.S. Space Force commander Gen. Chance Saltzman, interviewed by Defense One’s Audrey Decker.
Catch our full State of Defense agenda and future events, running through the end of March, here.
Guest:
- U.S. Air Force commander Gen. David Allvin, interviewed by Defense One’s Audrey Decker.
Catch our full State of Defense agenda and future events, running through the end of March, here.
Our annual State of Defense interview series begins with a commandant working to balance crisis response and modernization. Learn more about that series here.
Guest:
- U.S. Army Col. Joshua Glonek, commander 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division.
Related reading:
- "How two units are learning from each other as the Army moves to modernize," from Sam Skove reporting in October;
- "Army embraces Ukraine-style warfar...
Maj. Gen. Joseph Kunkel discusses his how his service's modernization strategy will shape the future of air combat in an increasingly complex security landscape.
Guest:
- Air Force Maj. Gen. Joseph Kunkel, director of Force Design, Integration and Wargaming at Air Force Futures; he's interviewed by Defense One air warfare reporter Audrey Decker. ...
Patrick Tucker describes a Defense Department in transition as Russia's Ukraine invasion approaches the four-year mark.
Related reading:
- "Ukraine military-aid donors aim to set Kyiv up through 2027, Pentagon says," Tucker reported on January 7;
- And "Kyiv’s donors set production goals to regularize arms donations to Ukraine," he reported two days later.
We listen back on more than a dozen guests from conversations across 2024.
Guests (in order):
- Fabian Hinz, research fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies;
- Bruce Hoffman, senior fellow for counterterrorism and homeland security at the Council on Foreign Relations, and co-author of "God, Guns, and Sediti...
Guests:
- Audrey Decker, aerospace reporter for Defense One;
- Patrick Tucker, science and technology editor at Defense One.
Related reading:
Guests:
- Brian Potter, Senior Infrastructure Fellow at the Institute for Progress and author of "Why Can't the U.S. Build Ships?" from September 2024;
- And Nicole Foy, ProPublica’s Ancil Payne Fellow, writing on immigration and labor; her report "An Immigrant Died Building a Ship for the U.S. Government. His Family Got Nothing"...
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