Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Dakota Wood and Robert Charles

DAKOTA WOOD, Senior Research Fellow for Defense Programs at the Heritage Foundation, Twenty-year career in the USMC, Former Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, Recently served as a strategist for the United States Marine Corps Special Operations Command:

• An overview of the Index of US Military Power
• How well-equipped is the US military to win a war?
• Is US military equipment out of date?

(PART TWO):

• What is the condition of the US Navy?
• China's expanding navy
• How plausible is retro-fitting the US Air Force?

ROBERT CHARLES, Former Assistant Secretary of State at the State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs in the Bush Administration, Author of Eagles and Evergreens:

• The current state of the impeachment process
• Dissecting the witness vote in the Senate

(PART TWO):

• The attitude of the Iranian people in the wake of the death of Soleimani
• Why the US can't let the Iranians get nuclear weapons
• Why Trump's peace plan "acknowledges reality"

With Robert Spencer

ROBERT SPENCER, Director of Jihad Watch, Weekly columnist for PJ Media and FrontPage Magazine:

• Assessing President Trump's peace plan proposal for Israel and the Palestinians
• What is the PLO Charter?

(PART TWO):

• Why the Palestinian Authority rejected President Trump's peace proposal
• How the Islamic State has gotten involved in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute
• The brainwashing done by the Palestinian Authority

(PART THREE):

• Shariah supremacism's impact on Muslims around the world
• The Muslim Brotherhood's desire to control the entire Muslim community
• What is the universal vision of Shariah supremacists?

(PART FOUR):

• How the persecution of Christians is a global phenomenon
• What is the Abrahamic Faiths Initiative?  

With Dr. Sean Lin and Bradley Thayer

DR. SEAN LIN,Executive director, Global Alliance Against Communist Propaganda and Disinformation, Served as a director of a laboratory at Walter Reid Army hospital specializing in viral diseases: 

• What is coronavirus?
• How potent is this strand of coronavirus?
• What makes this version of the disease so deadly?

(PART TWO):

• What do we know about China's biological weapons program?
• How the Chinese Communist Party abuses its own people

DR. BRADLEY THAYER, Professor of International Security Studies a Tallinn University, Has worked for the U.S. Department of Defense, the Rand Corporation and served as a senior analyst for the National Institute for Public Policy:

• Parallels between China's coronavirus and Chernobyl
• How truthful is the Chinese government being about the origin of the coronavirus?
• How the misrule of the CCP allowed the disease to spread faster

(PART TWO):

• China's continual repression of its own people
• What is 'suppression by algorithm'?
• Could the coronavirus bring down the Xi dynasty?

With Gordon Chang

GORDON CHANG, The Daily Beast contributor, Author of The Coming Collapse of China and Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World, Latest book: Losing South Korea (2019):

• Implications of Xi Jinping's 'China Dream'
• How does the outbreak of the coronavirus play into Xi's rule?
• Could the coronavirus be a product of the Communist Party of China?

(PART TWO):

• Why is more information about the coronavirus not known?
• Why the Chinese Communist Party is controlling the narrative of this disease
• Possible origins of the coronavirus

(PART THREE):

• The UK's decision to allow Huawei to handle their 5G network
• Why the US needs a Huawei competitor
• A shocking development from the Defense Department with respect to Huawei

(PART FOUR):

• An overview of the social credit system in China
• Hikvision's role in surveilling the Chinese people 

With Andy Bostom

ANDY BOSTOM, Author of The Legacy of Jihad (2005), Author of Sharia versus Freedom: The Legacy of Islamic Totalitarianism (2012), Author of Iran’s Final Solution for Israel: The Legacy of Jihad and Shi’ite Islamic Jew-Hatred in Iran (2014), Author of The Legacy of Antisemitism (Updated): From Sacred Texts to Solemn History (2020):

• The return of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in the West
• An examination of Jew hatred in Shariah Law
• Anti-Semitic motifs in the Hadith 

(PART TWO):

• Examining the Quranic origins of anti-Semitism
• The genesis of Sunni and Shiite versions of anti-Semitism
• Is there room to reject anti-Semitism in Islam?

(PART THREE):

• What did Maimonides have to say of the persecution of Jews?
• What have been the consequences for Christians under Islam over the centuries?
• How is Jesus Christ portrayed in Islam?

(PART FOUR):

• The role of the Muslim Brotherhood in promoting anti-Semitism in the West
• A Muslim Holocaust remembrance travesty

With Arthur Herman

ARTHUR HERMAN, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, Author of 1917: Lenin, Wilson and the Birth of the New World Disorder(2017):

• How do we assure the future competitiveness of the US?
• Why America needs an industrial policy
• Why sustaining economic growth is significant to our interests

(PART TWO):

• We must preserve the US as a leader in key sectors of the economy
• The reality of the threat we face from China
• Implications of the atrophy of our defense-industrial base

(PART THREE):

• Assessing the current US nuclear deterrent 
• Why the US should be on high alert with respect to the Russian nuclear arsenal 

(PART FOUR):

• What should the US be doing to prepare for 5G?
• Differences between Chinese and US 5G
• How a Chinese quantum-computer could be devastating for US National Security

 

With Grant Newsham

GRANT NEWSHAM, Senior Research Fellow at Japan Forum for Strategic Studies:

• What are the stakes for the US in Taiwan?
• Assessing the possibility of the PRC retaliating against Taiwan
• Possible means for a Chinese attack on Taiwan

(PART TWO):

• Examining the naval capabilities of the Chinese
• How civilian aircraft and sea vessels can be used by the PLA
• China's acquisition of Russian air defense systems

(PART THREE):

• How the US can aid Taiwan in their conflict with China
• How far into Taiwan can the Chinese military reach?
• Why should Americans care about Taiwan maintaining their freedom?

(PART FOUR):

• The capability of Japan to defend itself against China
• The prospect of a US-Japanese joint defense operation
• Should Japan have a nuclear deterrent?
• Would South Korea cut a deal with the Chinese?

With Joe Bosco

JOE BOSCO, Former China Country Director, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Member of the U.S.-China task force at the Center for National Interest:

• An overview of Xi Jinping's 'China dream'
• What is the purpose of the Belt and Road initiative?
• How China sees itself as extending its imperial domain

(PART TWO):

• China's territorial dominance in the Pacific Ocean
• What ceding control of the seas to China would mean for American national security 
• Is the US underwriting the Belt and Road initiative? 

(PART THREE):

• Conflicting reports of the Phase One trade deal
• Will China honor the provisions of the deal?

(PART FOUR):

• Beijing's interference in Taiwanese elections
• How will Xi Jinping respond to Tsai Ing-wen winning the election?

With Russ Dallen, Gordon Chang, Kevin Freeman, and Nina Shea

RUSS DALLEN, President & Editor in Chief at The Latin American Herald Tribune, Head of the international investment bank, Caracas Capital Markets, Served as President of Venezuela’s “The Daily Journal”:

• Tracking the movements of Juan Guaido
• The state of extreme poverty in Venezuela
• What role should the US play in aiding Venezuela?

GORDON CHANG, The Daily Beast contributor, Author of The Coming Collapse of China and Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World, Latest book: Losing South Korea (2019):

• Analyzing the comments of Tsai Ing-wen after winning the Taiwanese election
• Why the US needs to defend Taiwan against China
• Examining the Phase One trade deal
• What should a Phase Two trade deal include?

KEVIN FREEMAN, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy, Host of Economic War Room on TheBlaze TV, Author of “Game Plan” and “Secret Weapon”:

• The agenda of ESG (environmental, social and governance) investing
• How ESG will impact companies in the fossil fuel sector?
• Why was the National Security Investment Consultant Institute started?
• An overview of 'moral capitalism'

NINA SHEA, Director of the Center for Religious Freedom and Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, Commissioner on the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom:

• An update on the state of persecuted Christians throughout the world
• How Africa's Christian communities are now in Islamic-extremist crosshairs
• What can the US do to combat the persecution of Christians?

With Ilan Berman

Dr. ILAN BERMAN, Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council, Associated Faculty at Missouri State University’s Defense and Strategic Studies, Editor of The Journal of International Security Affairs, Author of “Iran’s Deadly Ambition: The Islamic Republic’s Quest for Global Power” (Aug. 2015):

• How to navigate the 'unchartered waters' in the US-Iranian relationship 
• Further action the US should take against Iran
• Analyzing the state of the economy in Iran

(PART TWO):

• How the killing of Soleimani changed the calculus of the Iranian regime
• What change is the Trump administration trying to get from Iran?
• The effectiveness of the 'maximum pressure' campaign

(PART THREE):

• Is there an alternative to the rule of the Mullahs for the Iranian people?
• Where Turkey stands as an ally of the United States

(PART FOUR):

• Breaking down Russia's return to the Middle East
• How the Israel-Palestine issue has been pushed to the back burner
• What role is China playing in the Middle East?