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China’s Push to Restart Falklands War

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With Dr. Harold Rhode, Diana West, Rick Fisher, Jasvinder Sanghera

Dr. HAROLD RHODE, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute, and former Turkish Desk Officer at the Department of Defense:

  • Weak negotiating tactics that make the Administration’s red lines meaningless
  • How U.S. concessions to Iran are forcing a coalition between Israel and the Sunni Arab Gulf governments
  • Differences between nuclear deterrence tactics used against Iran and the former Soviet Union

DIANA WEST, author of “American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character:

  • A Senate decision to allow the Iran deal to pass through Congress with a simple minority vote
  • The expulsion of cartoonist Lars Vilks from his home by the Swedish government due to his “defamatory” depictions of the Prophet Muhammad
  • Ways in which multiculturalism and an Islamic incursion into Western society is creating drastic demographic changes

RICK FISHER, author of “China’s Military Modernization: Building for Regional and Global Reach”:

  • A new Office of Naval Intelligence study highlighting Chinese maritime forces expanding, modernizing, and increasing their global power projection capability
  • Enhancements within the PLA Navy that suggest China is taking a “wartime footing”
  • Beijing’s adventurism in the South Atlantic in efforts to start a second Falklands War

JASVINDER SANGHERA, forced-marriage survivor, founder of the U.K-based Karma Nirvana, and author of “Shame”:

  • Manifestations of honor based violence and forced marriages
  • Sanghera’s campaign to raise awareness, debunk myths, and discuss why these issues are human rights abuses
  • Methods for ending biases towards honor based violence and forced marriages within Western law enforcement

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USA vs. the Muslim Brotherhood, China & Russia

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With Amb. Robert Joseph, Rick Fisher, Sen. James Lankford, Ilya Feoktistov Amb. ROBERT JOSEPH, former Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security:

  • The “Russian Reset” in the face of Putin’s aggression
  • Consequences of a unilateral START treaty
  • How continued concessions to slash US missile defenses only invite greater demands from Russia
  • Why U.S. nuclear modernization efforts are stuck in the Reagan era

RICHARD FISHER, author of “China’s Military Modernization” and Senior Fellow at the International Assessment and Strategy Center:

  • China’s announcement of a 10% increase in military spending
  • Can China’s economy handle another double-digit defense spending growth?
  • Specific areas of Chinese military technological advancements

Sen. JAMES LANKFORD (OK), member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs:

  • The U.S. approach to bargaining in the “nuclear Persian bazaar”
  • Is the President’s AUMF meant to authorize military force or de-authorize it for his successor?
  • Calling out the Muslim Brotherhood as an Islamist movement, not a legitimate political party
  • Security concerns over the Clinton email scandal
  • The vital importance of infrastructure security and defense against EMPs

ILYA FEOKTISTOV, research director of Americans for Peace and Tolerance:

  • A history of the controversial Islamic Society of Boston
  • Examples of dead, convicted, or on-the-run terrorists who were radicalized in the ISB
  • Hopes that the Tsarnaev trial will provide insight into radical Islam in Boston
  • Saudi funding of North American Wahhabi mosques

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China Sharpens its Sword

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With Bill Roggio, Rick Fisher, Bill Gertz, Fred Fleitz

BILL ROGGIO, managing editor of “The Long War Journal”:
  • Restrengthening Russian involvement in eastern Ukraine
  • Realities on the ground  that impact the arming of “moderate” Syrian rebels
  • Iran’s influence in Yemen and over Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
  • A controversial new arrangement between a Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated group in Northern VA and the National Cathedral in Washington D.C.
RICK FISHER, Senior Fellow at the International Assessment and Strategy Center and author of “China’s Military Modernization: Building for Regional and Global Reach”:
  • China’s hegemonic aspirations in the Asia-Pacific region and globally
  • Rapid advances in Chinese military technology and its growing share of the international arms trade
  • Ambiguities in Washington’s Taiwan policy
BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor at the Washington Free Beacon:
  • The Administration’s use of arms control to constrain capabilities of the American military
  • President Obama’s troubled relationship with the American military leadership
  • How bipartisan will the new Republican Congress truly be with regards to national security policy?
FRED FLEITZ, senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy:
  • Why an Obama-Iran nuclear deal will still allow Tehran to obtain a bomb
  • The President’s secret letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei
  • The Truman Center and other Washington think tanks’ influence over media support for an Iranian nuclear deal

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Weighing In On Bob Gates’ Revelations in “Duty”

With Andrew Natsios, Fred Fleitz, Rick Fisher, Bill Roggio.

ANDREW NATSIOS, former Administrator of USAID and author of “Sudan, South Sudan, and Darfur: What Everyone Needs to Know,” reports on the violence occurring in South Sudan at the moment, and discusses what role Sudan may play in its former territory.

FRED FLEITZ, of Lignet.com, comments on Robert Gates’ new explosive tell-all book, “Duty.”

RICK FISHER, Senior Fellow of Asian military affairs at the International Assessment and Strategy Center, breaks down the Chinese military threat matrix by categories of naval, area denial, space, nuclear, diplomatic, and cyber.

BILL ROGGIO of the Long War Journal, discusses Al-Qaeda’s recent resurgence in Iraq’s Anbar province and the continuing issues that plague U.S. policy objectives in Afghanistan.

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Does A Stronger Alliance In Egypt Result In A Weaker Muslim Brotherhood?

With Rick Francona, Rick Fisher, Hon. Bijan Kian, Christian Whiton. Bill Gertz guest hosts.

RICK FRANCONA, a retired USAF Lt. Colonel, joins guest host BILL GERTZ to discuss his recent trip to Egypt, and what he learned there about the Egyptian military forces and the current Egyptian and U.S. military alliance.

RICK FISHER, author of “China’s Military Modernization,” explains the growing relationship between the US and Japan in response to the Chinese threat in the region.

The Honorable BIJAN KIAN, former member of the board of directors of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, outlines the diplomatic activity taken by President Obama towards Iran.

CHRISTIAN WHITON, author of the newly released book “Smart Power: Between Diplomacy and War,” talks about the Islamic role within the various Syrian rebel groups.

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Hollowing of U.S. Military Impacting Future Ability to Effectively Wage War

With Congressman Rob Wittman, Ricard Fisher, Andy McCarthy, Shaun Waterman

CONGRESSMAN ROB WITTMAN, Representative of 1st Congressional District of Virgina, uncovers some of the problems the United States Military and National Security faces at the present time and in the future with looming defense cuts.

RICHARD FISHER of International Assessment and Strategy Center explains why China’s military buildup is contradicting it’s traditional claim that it has a “nuclear doctrine of no first use.”

ANDY MCCARTHY, author of Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy, gives an overview of some of the today’s most talked about topics including; The Boston Bombers, Guantanamo Bay, and Sharia Law.

SHAUN WATERMAN of the Washington Times brings detailed clarity to what we know about the Obama administration’s handling of Benghazi in the run-up to tomorrow’s hearings on the Hill.

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China, North Korea, and the Nuclear Threat to America

With Luke Coffey, Jon Perdue, Rick Fisher, and Fred Fleitz.

LUKE COFFEY, a Margaret Thatcher Fellow at Heritage, explains the referendum to be voted on in the Falkand Islands this Sunday that will determine whether the islands remain a British overseas territory or not, and wonders why the Obama administration has not fully supported our British allies on this issue.

Director of the Latin America Programs at the Fund for American Studies, JON PERDUE predicts the effect that Hugo Chavez’s death will have on Venezuelan relations with Cuba, China, Iran, and the United States, and encourages the United States to adopt a policy that will best support open and free elections in the coming month.

RICK FISHER, from the International Assessment and Strategy Center, interprets North Korea’s nuclear threat against the United States and stresses the need for America to learn the real size of China’s nuclear arsenal.

From lignet.com, FRED FLEITZ weighs in on the state of Venezuela after Hugo Chavez’s death, describes North Korea’s nuclear threat as a ploy to get America back to the negotiating table, and explains how recent talks with the Iranian regime in Kazakhstan have once again finished with the Iranians coming out on top.

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