Patty-Jane Geller, Justin Butterfield and Cleo

PATTY-JANE GELLER, Policy Analyst, Center for National Defense, The Heritage Foundation, Former Staff Assistant, Senate Armed Services Committee, @pj_geller

• Should the United State reduce the role that nuclear weapons play in American national security strategy?
• What effect does an aging missile defense system have on U.S. deterance abroad?
• Patty-Jane Geller talks about Vladimir Putin’s “escalate to win” doctrine

JUSTIN BUTTERFIELD, Deputy Counsel, First Liberty, Former Senior Advisor for Conscience and Religious Freedom, U.S. Department of Heath and Human Services

• Justin Butterfield gives an update on a federal lawsuit challenging the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for the U.S. armed forces
• Butterfield talks about how the U.S. military is responding to those members with objections to the Department of Defense’s orders: “Some of our plaintiffs have been assigned to do things like watch walls be painted”

CLEO PASKAL, Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, @CleoPaskal

• Live from CPAC 2022: Is the navy the strongest and most valuable branch within the People’s Liberation Army in China?
• Cleo Paskal talks about U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s recent diplomatic trip to the island nation of Fiji