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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A US Marine Corps VXE30 Stalker unmanned aerial system is staged during a maritime domain awareness training exercise in southern Finland on July 31, 2025. (DVIDS)