Defense & Aerospace Daily Podcast [Oct 07, 2021] Radakin Named as UK CDS; China as Declining Power

Defense & Aerospace Report

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Adm. Sir George Zambellas, Royal Navy Ret., the former UK First Sea Lord, discusses the appointment of Royal Navy First Sea Lord Adm. Sir Tony Radakin as the next UK Chief of Defence Staff to succeed British Army Gen. Sir Nick Carter on Nov. 30, priorities for the force, driving innovation, the AUKUS deal and how to best equip the Royal Australian Navy with nuclear-powered submarines; and Dr. Hal Brands of Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies and the American Enterprise Institute, discusses the article he co-authored with Dr. Michael Beckley of Tufts University and AEI — “China is a declining power — and that’s the problem: The United States needs to prepare for a major war, not because its rival is rising but because of the opposite“ with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.