How Important Are They in US Defense Poiicy. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Carl Baker. Carl Baker, senior advisor to Pacific Forum, helps us understand the current and changing security connections with Australia and New Zealand and how that changes the calculus for us in the Western Pacific and […]
Is the US Safe from Middle Eastern Terrorism (Global Connections)
Is it Likely, and Could it be Inevitable. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Roopmati Khandekar. Dr. Roopmati Khandekar, geopolitical strategist, helps us understand why and how radical Islam has such animosity against the United States, and how likely they are to organize a terror attack here to demonstrate how […]
The Philippines v. China in the South China Sea (Global Connections)
How will this National. Security Game Play Out. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Karla Cruz. Karla Cruz, Senior Security Analyst in the Philippines, helps us understand the current contention between the Philippines and China in the South China Sea, how and why it came about, and how it is […]
Another Embarrassing Leak of Classified Data (American Issues Take Two)
Why Can’t we Protect our National Secrets. The hosts for this show are Jay Fidell and Tim Apicella. The guests are Stephanie Dalton and Jeff Portnoy. Our panel discusses what was leaked, who leaked it, how it was leaked, why it was leaked, and what it means to our national security and our diplomatic relations […]
How Do the Biden Documents Change Things (American Issues Take One)
How will the Case Against Trump Play Out. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guests are Cynthia Lee Sinclair and Manfred Henningsen. They keep telling us an indictment is coming soon, but the days tick by and it hasn’t happened. The facts against Trump in the classified documents case seem clear enough. […]
Trump’s Ongoing War Against Law Enforcement (American Issues Take One)
Imagine if He Gets into Office Again. The hosts for this show are Tim Apicella and Jay Fidell. The guests are Cynthia Lee Sinclair and Chuck Crumpton. Our panel discusses Trump’s continuing efforts to attack, corrupt and undermine the law enforcement and intelligence communities, the reasons for that war, how successful it is, the effects […]
US Energy and Electric Power Policy (Perspectives on Energy)
Energy in National Security Policy. The host for this show is Guillermo Sabatier. The guest is David Gattie. The United States has entered an era of long-term competition with revisionist powers. A key aspect of this competition will revolve around a contest for technological superiority waged between the national innovation bases of the respective competitors. […]
Imagining a Clear View of China (Figments: The Power of Imagination)
Dual-Role Scholar Dr. Oriana Skylar Mastro. The host for this show is Dan ‘Fig’ Leaf. The guest is Oriana Skylar Mastro. Fig interviews Dr. Oriana Skylar Mastro, nonresident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and Center Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University focused on focuses on Chinese military […]
China, Taiwan and the U.S. (Figments: On Reality)
What You Should Know. The host for this show is Dan ‘Fig’ Leaf. Dan “Fig” Leaf’s expertise and experience bring clarity to the complex issues between China, Taiwan and the United States. When the U.S. and the Peoples’ Republic of China normalized relations in 1979, both sides accepted the notion that Taiwan would eventually “reunify” […]
National Security: the Washington Problem (Figments: On Reality)
Washington DC is the Heart of the Problem. The host for this show is Dan ‘Fig’ Leaf. The failed 20-year war in Afghanistan is emblematic of repeated U.S. national security failures? What is the problem? Host, Lt Gen (Ret) Dan “Fig” Leaf gives his hypothesis in this episode. He cites the lack of diversity – […]