Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

Diana West

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

PART ONE:

• Consequences of the U.S.'s historical attempts to accommodate Soviet communism
• The depth of Soviet subversion of American government and civil society from the 1930’s to the end of World War Two

PART TWO:

• Did the USSR play a role in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?
• How American officials loyal to the USSR diverted wartime resources from U.S. troops and penetrated the U.S. atomic program
• What a new Ken Burns documentary left out about the national security crisis that FDR faced

PART THREE:

• What can the U.S. learn from the ideology of communism to help combat the moral dilemma it faces from radical Islamism?
• Why communism and Islamism have both been divorced from their crimes in American culture
• Historical Communist Party connections to current European Union officials, and even President Barack Obama

PART FOUR:

• Jihadist penetration and subversion in the U.S.
• Stealth jihad and the manipulation of Western political thought
• U.S. government agencies turning their backs on the ideological threats of today?

Peter Wehner, Amb. John Herbst, Bill Gertz and Michael Braun

PETER WEHNER, former Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Strategic Initiatives:

• Examining President Obama’s ideological preferences
• Inherent contradictions within Islam
• The Administration’s minimalist theme of armed intervention

AMB. JOHN HERBST, former US Ambassador to Ukraine and Uzbekistan:

• A sense of gloom looming over the political landscape in Kiev
• Consequences of Putin’s goals for Ukraine
• Three steps for deterring the Kremlin’s aggression

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor of the Washington Free Beacon:

• Syria's role as a safe haven for the Khorasan Group and jihadists focused on transnational attacks
• The Obama Administration’s decision to suspend the use of land mines against the advice of senior military officials
• Clandestine cybersecurity talks between Chinese envoys and the State Department

MICHAEL BRAUN, Managing Partner at SGI Global and former DEA Chief of Operations:

• Security challenges posed by the growing influence of Mexican drug cartels inside the U.S.
• A potential terrorist-cartel alliance south of the border
• The target rich environment that is America’s critical infrastructure

Bill Roggio, Fred Fleitz, Richard Perle and Rep. Bill Posey

BILL ROGGIO, managing editor at "The Long War Journal":

• Why jihadists are thriving in chaotic Syria
• Concerns that the Obama administration is underestimating the threat of jihadist groups
• Can Arab nations allied to the U.S. be trusted in fighting Islamist extremism?
• Yemen's likely future as the next Syria

FRED FLEITZ, former CIA Analyst:

• Recent warnings of an imminent terror attack inside the U.S. from the Khorasan Group
• Threats from so-called “homegrown” actors versus global jihadist networks
• Domestic terror in the western world as seen in the recent incidents in New Jersey and Australia
• Is it possible the Administration enlisted the Iranian regime for assistance in combating radical Islamism?

RICHARD PERLE, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs:

• Non-ideological incentives for jihadist recruitment and expansion
• Using Putin’s INF Treaty violation as an opportunity to reform arms control policy
• Is modern Russia as much of a nuclear threat to America as the Soviet Union was?

Rep. BILL POSEY, of Florida's 8th Congressional District:

• President Obama’s incoherent strategy for countering ISIS
• Criticism of the federal government’s neglect of NASA and space exploration
• The gravity of the threat posed by solar flares to electrical infrastructure

Mark Lee Greenblatt

With Mark Lee Greenblatt, Author of "Valor: Unsung heroes from Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front"

PART ONE:

• How selflessness in danger helps to make a valorous service member
• The role that training plays in fostering life-saving camaraderie
• Applauding the consistent humility of decorated service members

PART TWO:

• Greenblatt’s method to profiling valor
• Dan Foster’s stalwart commitment to defending his brothers in a remote outpost in Afghanistan
• Steve Sanford’s courageous foray under fire to save the life of a mortally wounded squad mate

PART THREE:

• Army helicopter pilot Ryan Welch’s heroic rescue over the “Triangle of Death”
• Navy rescue swimmer Kyle Need saves shipwrecked civilian during horrific storm
• The media's hesitation to cover heroic stories because of the “cheerleader image" concern

PART FOUR:

• Consequences of a disturbing disconnect between the military and the US civilian population
• Bridging the gap between communities less invested in the military
• The importance of awareness, understanding, and jobs to a veteran's successful assimilation back into the civilian sector

Robert Haddick

PART ONE:

• China’s challenge to the seven-decade status quo of American regional hegemony in the western Pacific
• The trend of China flaunting international norms and laws to further its own interests
• The role played by the Gulf War and Taiwan Strait Crisis in China’s assessment of its own military capabilities

PART TWO:

• The implications of China’s military buildup for the U.S.
• China's ever-improving missile and space capabilities
• China’s role in "escalation dominance" and what it means for America

PART THREE:

• The importance of a stable Pacific to world security
• Has the Asia Pivot reinforced or hurt American credibility in the region?
• China’s rapid military modernization and growing force

PART FOUR:

• The American response to China's military buildup
• The U.S.'s heavy reliance on Chinese resources, and particularly rare earth minerals
• China use of outside matters as an excuse to repress internal dissent

Dr. Paul Miller, Tera Dahl, Sgt. Tim Sumner, Gordon Chang

Dr. PAUL MILLER, former Director for Afghanistan and Pakistan on the National Security Council staff:

• Using the "Somalia model" to combat the Islamic State
• Does President Obama plan to follow the same method of withdrawing forces from Afghanistan as he did in Iraq?
• Instability in Pakistan encouraging a power grab by radical Islamists
• The need to use all tools of national security to determine policy in South Asia

Sgt. TIM SUMNER, Co-Founder of 9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America:

• The Obama Administration’s lack of a comprehensive policy to counter jihadist threats at home and abroad
• Collusion between the Islamic State and drug cartel outfits in Juarez, Mexico
• Senator Cruz’s bill to revoke passports of Americans convicted of fighting for radical terror groups

TERA DAHL, Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Council on Global Security:

• Jihad beyond the Islamic State
• ISIS refugee horror stories
• Middle Eastern resentment towards Qatar and Turkey for facilitating the rise of the Islamic State
• Egypt’s legacy of war against radical Islam, and America’s failure to normalize relations after the fall of Mubarak

GORDON CHANG, author of “The Coming Collapse of China”:

• A new era of U.S.-Chinese relations
• Alibaba’s successful initial public offering in the U.S.
• Investor and cyber security concerns stemming from Alibaba's structure
• Should the United States arm Taiwan with submarines?

Raymond Ibrahim

RAYMOND IBRAHIM, author of “Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians” and “The Al Qaeda Reader”:

PART ONE

• How ISIS plays into the bigger picture of global jihad
• America's willful blindness to the fact that to defeat an enemy, one must know the enemy
• The American far-left's apologist-position towards radical Islam

PART TWO

• Defensive versus offensive jihad in Shariah doctrine
• Comparing ISIS and Al-Qaeda
• The consequences of ISIS declaring an Islamic Caliphate

PART THREE

• President Obama’s misleading remarks about the connection of jihadist terrorism to Islam
• The long history of Christian persecution in the Muslim world

PART FOUR

• Recommendations for future U.S. policies to combat the global jihad
• Lessons learned from the American strategy that defeated the communist ideology of the Soviet Union
• Problems with the labels put on those who question the radical aspects of Shariah law

Cliff Kincaid

PART ONE

• How the Soviet Union reorganized after its supposed collapse
• Why the FSB and the Russian intelligence community are stronger and more important than ever
• Putin's aspirations to control Europe and bring Russia back to world superpower status
• Is German Chancellor Angela Merkel in cahoots with Putin and Russia’s agenda?

PART TWO

• Putin's use of his “Christian” image to deceive the West
• The FSB's continuing ties to KGB Islamist networks, including Al-Qaeda
• The card-carrying Communist who mentored a young Barack Obama

PART THREE

• Russian subversion at home and abroad
• The resurrection of Soviet-style anti-American international outreach
• The failure of U.S. policy to counter Putin’s vision for Europe and the global community

PART FOUR

• Does the loyalty of America's political leadership and public servants need testing?
• Lessons learned from countering Nazi propaganda in the U.S. during World War II
• The media’s growing inability to function as a watchdog

Caroline Glick, Diana West, John Strauchs, and Jim Hanson

CAROLINE GLICK, author of “The Israeli Solution: A One State Plan for Peace in the Middle East”:

• Important differences between politicians and leaders that affect the security of the free world
• What the President’s recent address says about the national security interests of the U.S. and Israel
• How the ISIS crisis has made the Administration blind to the Iranian threat

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

• Congress' deliberations over whether to support the President’s new ISIS strategy
• Arming rebel groups has never boded well for the U.S. so why the push to do so in Syria?
• The threat posed by Syrian refugees bringing radical Shariah law to the U.S.

JOHN STRAUCHS, former CIA operations officer and expert on physical security:

• A homeland security update 13 years post 9/11
• Vulnerabilities of the U.S. transportation infrastructure
• The withering of NYC's counterterrorism defenses because of political concessions
• Stuxnet-like malware capable of penetrating system controls in the U.S. prison system

JIM HANSON, former US Army Special Operations Weapons Sergeant:

• Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey's claim that military boots on the ground is a potential option for fighting ISIS
• Does the US government have a strategy to defeat ISIS through military, political, cultural, and diplomatic efforts?
• An argument in support of a broader Authorization of Force to defeat offensive, global jihad
• What arming "moderate rebels" in Syria entails

Melik Kaylan

MELIK KAYLAN, co-author of the new book “The Russia–China Axis: The New Cold War and America’s Crisis of Leadership”:

Segment One:

•  Long-term consequences of the world's failure to take note of Russia's invasion of Georgia in 2008
• Why did Pres. George W. Bush decide to treat Russia as an ally?
• Putin's ongoing quest to regain territory lost after the collapse of the Soviet Union
• Russia vs. NATO

Segment Two:

• China's move into America’s backyard via domination of the Panama Canal and other valuable resources
• Communist China's return to old dynastic territorial ambitions
• The intertwining of the U.S. economy with Russia and China that makes treating them as enemies complicated

Segment Three:

• Russia and China's expansion of old empirical spheres of influence in central Asia
• The continued growth and adaptation of the Russian and Chinese military arsenals despite the end of the Cold War
• Plans for a new alternative reserve currency to the dollar—backed by Russia and China—that would devastate the U.S. economy

Segment Four:

• The dangers of losing track of historical geopolitical rivals
• Is America a major combatant in the "War for Ideas"?
• How Middle Eastern conflicts are diverting American attention from Russian/Chinese subversion