Atlantic Council’s Benitez on 2018 NATO Summit, Trump-Putin Meeting, Søreide Speech

Defense & Aerospace Report Interviews Podcast

Jorge Benitez, director of the Atlantic Council think tank’s NATOSource blog and a senior fellow in its Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, discusses what to expect from the 2018 NATO Summit in Brussels, what President Donald Trump’s’ strategic goals should be both there and at his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin later in July, how Trump’s diplomatic language may threaten the alliance and aide Putin’s efforts to disempower it, US Defense Secretary James Mattis’ role in American foreign policy, Norwegian Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Søreide’s June 26 remarks at the think tank and more in an interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian taped immediately after her speech in Washington.