Project Category: 2021

Defense Writers Group

February 24, 2021

DWG:  Ladies and gentlemen, it’s just past 8:45 so let’s get things rolling. 

Senator Reed, congratulations on your elevation to Chairman.  I think I’m congratulating you.

Chairman Reed:  Thank you.

Defense Writers Group

February 17, 2021

DWG:  This is a Defense Writer’s Group conversation with General Charles Q. Brown, Jr. who is the Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force.  Sir, it’s really an honor to have you with us.  I’m going to recognize people to ask you questions basically in the order in which they signed up.  We were just joking about how quickly people do that, knowing that that’s the system.  But I’m going to ask one first question.

When you started as Chief, you wrote a sort of strategic view that the Air Force needs to accelerate change or lose.  And you said if it didn’t, it would not remain competitive and that the consequences could be profound. 

Defense Writers Group

February 3, 2021

DWG:  -- other programs.  Our biggest one is the Defense Writers Group, now 40 years old.  And we do so thanks mainly to a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York.

We’re honored today to have General Jay Raymond, Chief of Space Operations of the United States Space Force as our guest to talk to us.  General, thank you so much for being available today.

I’m going to start as I often wo with kind of a softball question.  How are things going?  It must be about two years now, is it not?  That --

General Raymond:  No, sir.  It’s just over a year.  We had our first birthday --

Defense Writers Group

February 1, 2021

DWG:  Welcome to this session of the Defense Writers Group.  We’re honored today to have as our guest General Jacqueline Van Ovost, the Commander of Air Mobility Command.  Ma’am, it’s great to have you with us today.  Thank you for taking an hour of your time to talk with reporters.

General Van Ovost:  That’s, David.  Thanks for your time, for inviting me, and it’s always a great day to talk about [Iraq] and global mobility and talk about the speed and flexibility and range that we bring to the Joint Force every day.

Project for Media and National Security

January 12, 2021

DWG: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to this conversation on the cybersecurity challenges faced by the incoming Biden administration and how it should tackle them. This session is cosponsored by the George Washington University Project for Media and National Security and the Howard Baker Forum. I’m David Ensor, Director of the GW project which is part of the GW School of Media and Public Affairs.