Patrick Cronin appears on the Defense and Aerospace Podcast to discuss takeaways from the Chinese Communist Party鈥檚 Twentieth Party Congress, and the US Air Force鈥檚 proposal to cycle out two F-15C squadrons from their current station on Okinawa (clip begins at 20:43).

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth greets Supreme Allied Commander Europe General Christopher Cavoli before the North Atlantic Council meeting of defense ministers on February 13, 2025, in Brussels, Belgium. (Omar Havana via Getty Images)