A National Security Briefing for the President-Elect

With Mark Helprin

MARK HELPRIN, Novelist, journalist and conservative commentator, Member of the Council on Foreign Relations:

• Putin: partner, adversary or something in between?
• Did Russia want to bring Donald Trump to power?
• The danger from the modernized Russian nuclear program

(PART TWO):

• How a weakening NATO has emboldened Putin
• Potential for miscalculation and conventional conflict tin Europe
• The success of China establishing hegemony in Asia
• Is Beijing preparing for conflict?

(PART THREE):

• What the Chinese demographic crisis means for potential conflict
• Implications of call between President-elect Trump and Taiwan
• Might Japan and South Korea decide to arm themselves with nuclear weapons?
• Threat from nuclear North Korea

(PART FOUR):

• Pyongyang’s ballistic missile program
• What President Trump should do with the Iran deal
• Should President Trump designate the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization?

(PART FIVE):

• A return to peace through strength
• Social engineering in the military