Patrick Cronin appears on the Defense and Aerospace Podcast to discuss takeaways from the Chinese Communist Party’s Twentieth Party Congress, and the US Air Force’s proposal to cycle out two F-15C squadrons from their current station on Okinawa (clip begins at 20:43).
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Bucket-wheel excavators mine rare earth materials on Ukrainian soil on February 25, 2025, in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine. (Kostiantyn Liberov via Getty Images)