Episodes
Thursday Apr 24, 2014
Charles Faddis
Thursday Apr 24, 2014
Thursday Apr 24, 2014
CHARLES FADDIS, Former CIA Intelligence Operative and author of "Willfull Neglect: The Dangerous Illusion of Homeland Security":
Part 1:
- The premise and principles of the book "Willfull Neglect"
- Is the war on terror isolated to core Al-Qaeda?
- Why the war on terror will eventually span to cover numerous decades into a multi-generational battle
- The unwillingness and inability to understand and think like our enemies
- The political posturing in the U.S. that allowed Putin to annex Crimea from Ukraine
- The foreign policy of wishful thinking that is pervasive throughout Washington D.C.
- The threat Iran and North Korea pose to the United States
- The political decisions leading to gross security gaps
- The vulnerabilities of the electric grid in the US
- What the future in America would look like without electricity if an EMP attack or solar phenomenon were able to take out the electric grid
- His suggestions on how to best protect American infrastructure from our adversaries and future terror attacks
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