Defense Writers Group
July 7, 2020
DWG: Welcome to the Defense Writers Group conversation with Secretary Wilkie. Sir, thank you very much for joining us. We have a good group of journalists today. As usual, we don’t have any opening statement or anything, we start with questions only I get to ask the first one. Then I’m going to go down the line of folks who have signed up and see if they have questions, and many of them will. Most of them will. Read more.
Defense Writers Group
June 30, 2020
DWG: Welcome to the Defense Writers Group conversation on June 30, 2020 with the Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Congressman Adam Smith.
Congressman, I understand that you’ve just come out of a White House meeting and I think our listeners would probably like me to ask you first about that meeting. Why don’t you just tell us what you feel you can about that.
Chairman Smith: Sure. That’s always difficult to navigate, but yeah, the White House reached out to a group of about 10 Democrats. They briefed some Republicans yesterday. To give their take on the Russia bounty story. Read more.
Defense Writers Group
June 29, 2020
DWG: Congressman Thornberry, thank you so much for joining us this morning.
Mr. Thornberry: Thanks for having me. I appreciate it.
DWG: Obviously the timing is an interesting one. Your committee’s been hard at it recently and there’s a lot to talk about.
Because we’re on a call I don’t have a way to see people putting their hands up. I’m going to down a list of the folks who signed up for this meeting in the order in which they signed up and ask them if they have a question and I think we’ll find many of them do. Read more.
Defense Writers Group
18 June 2020
DWG: Welcome to our session today with our distinguished guest, General Jeffrey L. Harrigian who’s commander of U.S. Air Forces both in Europe and in Africa. We will launch as usual with questions, and as moderator, I will ask the first one.
Let me start, General, if I may. I want to ask you about Agile Combat Employment. But before I do, a lot of us are hunkered over our computers in our basements because of COVID-19 and I think I’d be remiss if I didn’t start by asking you how is your command doing in this pandemic? How is it affecting your work? Read more.
Defense Writers Group
June 11, 2020
DWG: Mr. Secretary, thank you for joining us for this conversation.
A/S McCaffery: I’m happy to be with you day.
DWG: We’re delighted and honored to have you with us. We’re going to do a one hour Q&A conversation on the record. I think it’s timely given your area of work and given, I mean the very fact that we’re having this conversation not face to face but instead remotely speaks to some of the issues that you’re dealing with. Read more.
Defense Writers Group
27 May 2020
DWG: Let me welcome everyone to this Defense Writers Group conversation, a virtual conversation with General Murray of Army Futures Command and Dr. Jette, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology. Thank you so much, gentlemen, for making some time available for the journalists of this organization today. Read more.
Defense Writers Group
May 20, 2020
DWG: Welcome to Defense Writers Group. Today, we have Gen. John W. "Jay" Raymond who is the Chief of Space Operations. Let’s make the best use of our time, so let me walk right in, General. Traditionally I ask a first question and then I’m going to go down the list in roughly the order I read it out to folks earlier, so you know. We’ll see how we do in terms of getting to questions because we probably won’t be able to get to everybody. Read more.
Defense Writers Group
April 29, 2020
DWG: Chairman Smith, thank you so much for making time for the Defense Writers Group this morning, for a conversation with us. We’ve got a lot of interest. There are over 30 people who should be listening in. Not everybody will get a chance to ask a question, and I think some of you know, we let you know as you signed up that you missed the cut on that. We’ll get to some people, depending on how long or short the answers are and how much time we have, but let’s see how we do and let’s dive straight in. Read more.
Defense Writers Group
April 22, 2020
DWG: Gen Goldfein, Thank you so much for joining us in this Defense Writers Group conversation.
General Goldfein: Thank you.
DWG: I’m the moderator and I will recognize people down the list I have here. That’s the method we’ll use. I’m just going to recognize people in the order in which they accepted the invitations. Read more.
Defense Writers Group
April 9, 2020
DWG: Good morning, General Ray. Thank you so much for doing this in the midst of everything else that we’re all going through. I really appreciate your taking the time and I think there’s a lot of interest in having the conversation with you today. Read more.
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