Defense Writers Group
June 29, 2021
Moderator: Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the Defense Writers Group. I’m Thom Shanker, the Director of the Project for Media and National Security at George Washington University, and we’re extremely honored to have as our guest today Representative Adam Smith, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee who’s joining us at just a really dynamic time in national security policy. Mr. Chairman, again, thank you for joining us today.
Representative Smith: Thank you, Thom. I appreciate the chance.
Defense Writers Group
June 15, 2021
Moderator: Mr. Secretary General, good morning.
Secretary General Stoltenberg: Good morning, good to see you.
Moderator: Thank you, sir. Well, we welcome you and all of the reporters to this Defense Writers Group discussion hosted by the Project for Media and National Security which is part of George Washington University’s School of Media and public Affairs.
We’re honored to have the Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, as our guest. This is just one day after he convened an extremely important summit of the 30 NATO member nations in Brussels. So Mr. Secretary General, thank you for this opportunity to engage directly with Washington’s premier national security reporters.
Defense Writers Group
June 4, 2021
DWG: Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the Defense Writers Group session for Friday, June 4th. We’re honored today to have as our guest General Arnold W. Bunch, Jr. who is the Commanding General of U.S. Air Force Materiel Command. And you're a returning guest, General Bunch. Thank you for doing this. It’s nice to have you with us.
General Bunch: David, it’s an honor and a privilege to be here on behalf and representing the 89,000 plus uniform and non-uniform airmen of Air Force Materiel Command.
Supporting federal, state and local government responses to major cyber incidents.
Cyber Media Forum
Thursday, May 13, 2021
Mr. Ensor: Good morning everybody. I’m David Ensor, the Director of the Project for Media and National Security and on behalf of the George Washington University project and also on behalf of the Howard Baker Forum, welcome to our conversation today on cyber media related issues. I’m going to introduce our moderator today who is my friend and colleague Frank Sesno. Many of you know him from television days but he’s also been until recently the Director of the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University. Frank is going to ask a few questions of Mr. Wales and introduce him, and then he’ll open the floor for questions from all of you.
Confronting Nation State Hackers and Cyberspies.
Cyber Media Forum
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Moderator: Let me welcome all of the journalists and others who are on the call with us today. I’m David Ensor, Director of the Project for Media and National Security at the George Washington University. This is a session of something we’re calling the Cyber Media Forum. The Project also runs something called the Defense Writers Group which has existed for 40 years and what we try to do is bring journalists together with knowledgeable officials and experts. Basically these are sort of beat reporter discussions with journalists who actually focus in on an area. This obviously we’re focusing on cyber and cybersecurity and we’re honored today to have the Assistant Attorney General for National Security of the United States Mr. John Demers as our guest. I’m going to chat with him for the first portion of this session and then we’re going to open it to and I will recognize one by one journalists who are on the call to ask questions and you’ll get a chance to ask a question and maybe a short follow-up.
Defense Writers Group
Friday, April 16, 2021
DWG: General, I just noticed like literally two minutes ago the Army put out a press release about the Fort Hood Independent Review Committee recommendations and their implementation. It’s sort of in your street. Were you aware this was going to happen just before we went on here?
General Garrett: Actually, no. But my staff picked up on it as well. And there were a couple of things. Of course I know exactly what we’re doing inside of Forces Command and what III Corps’ doing.
Defense Writers Group
Monday 5, 2021
DWG: Our guest is Admiral Mike Gilday, Chief of Naval Operations of the United States Navy. Thank you for joining us.
Gilday: Thanks for having me today.
DWG: Admiral, why don’t I start by asking you to tell us kind of what you’re working on. How things look from your seat right now. In particular, as you try to make sure that you have a Navy that’s ready for potential future conflicts.
Defense Writers Group
March 31, 2021
DWG: Good afternoon, General. Thank you for joining us.
Gen. VanHerck: Thank you. I look forward to our discussion.
DWG: We’ve got a good group of journalists on-line ready to talk with you and I as the moderator will ask the first question. We may have more people than are going to be able to have time to ask questions, but I’m going to see how many we can get to.
Defense Writers Group
March 22, 2021
DWG: Members of the Defense Writers Group I would like to welcome our honored guest today, the new Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Committee, Congressman Nike Rogers, a Republican of Alabama. Sir, thank you very much for joining us.
Defense Writers Group
March 11, 2021
DWG: We’re honored today to have as our special guest for the Defense Writers Group session this afternoon General James C. McConville who’s Chief of Staff, as you know, of the United States Army. General, it’s very good of you to join us. Thank you for taking the time.
General McConville: It’s great to be here, David.
