Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Dakota Wood

DAKOTA WOOD, Senior Research Fellow for Defense Programs in the Heritage Foundation’s Center for National Defense, Editor of the 2018 Index of U.S. Military Strength, Former Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments:

• The condition of U.S. military strength at the moment
• How the end of the Cold War marked the beginning of U.S. Military decline
• What happens when the peace dividend goes away? 

(PART TWO):

• How to measure capabilities of U.S. Military’s ground forces
• What the American public needs to know about the 2018 Index of U.S. Military Strength  

(PART THREE):

• The size and modernity of U.S. Naval forces

(PART FOUR):

• Current status of the U.S. Air Force
• Drastic reduction in Air Force resources in the past decade
• State of U.S. nuclear forces, space and cyber-warfare capabilities 

(PART FIVE):

• Is the U.S. industrial base effective and efficient?
• How perceived weakness emboldens opportunism 

With Seth Cropsey

SETH CROPSEY, Senior Fellow and Director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for American Seapower, Deputy Undersecretary of the Navy in Reagan and Bush Administrations, Former principal deputy assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict, Author of “Seablindness: How Political Neglect is Choking American Seapower and What to do About It (August 2017)”:

• Why U.S. Naval power and superiority is essential to our national security
• Beijing’s true motives regarding South China Sea

(PART TWO):

• Implications of Chinese coastal navy expansion
• The current state of strategic competition between U.S. and Beijing
• Implications of our adversaries building up their naval fleets

(PART THREE):

• Why we must double naval budget to sustain our fleets
• When can defense industrial base turn out a capable fleet?
• How our ship-building industrial base has contracted over the past 20 years 

(PART FOUR):

• Why the submarine is the ultimate stealth weapon
• The importance of having missile defenses at sea

With Joshua Meservey, Robert Spencer, Gordon Chang and Kevin Freeman

JOSHUA MESERVEY, Senior Policy Analyst, Africa and the Middle East at the Heritage Foundation:

• Why Zimbabwe President Mugabe’s time is up
• Will the ruling party maintain its grip on the country?
• Kenya’s history of election disputes   

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

• Dangers of the red-green axis
• Efforts to prevent conservative speakers from expressing views
• Twitter’s announcement to start monitoring behavior of users  
• H.R. McMaster still refuses to name the enemy 

KEVIN FREEMAN, Author of Game Plan: How to Protect Yourself from the Coming Cyber-Economic Attack (2013), Author of Secret Weapon: How Economic Terrorism Brought Down the U.S. Stock Market and Why It Can Happen Again (2012), Founder of Globaleconomicwarfare.com, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy:

• The growing access of financial weapons
• How China is leveraging its economic power to improve its defense capabilities
• Major security consequences of internet hackings   

GORDON CHANG, Forbes.com columnist, World Affairs Journal Blogger, The Daily Beast contributor, Author of The Coming Collapse of China and Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World:

• Implications of constant flow of materials to North Korea from Beijing  
• Why President Trump must put more pressure on China regarding Pyongyang relationship
• Steve Bannon’s alleged ‘fixation’ on Chinese aggression
• Is the Philippines heading in the right direction? 

With Bill Gertz, Luis Fleischman, Harold Rhode, Morton Klein and Liz Yore

BILL GERTZ, Senior editor at the Washington Free Beacon, Inside the Ring columnist at the Washington Times, Author of iWar: War and Peace in the Information Age (2016)

• The growing threat from China’s military
• Chinese dissidents and disinformation campaigns
• Violations of the INF Treaty 

DR. LUIS FLEISCHMAN, Advisor for the Menges Hemispheric Security Project at the Center for Security Policy, Author of “Latin America in the Post-Chavez Era: The Threat to U.S. Security,” Adjunct Professor at Florida Atlantic University:

• The fundamental transformation of Luis Almagro
• Why Latin American countries are unable to isolate Venezuela
• How Venezuela is a threat to the United States

DR. HAROLD RHODE, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute, Former Turkish Desk Officer at the US Department of Defense, Author of Modern Islamic Warfare: An Ancient Doctrine Marches On (2017):

• Consequences of the vacuum of former- Syria
• America’s two enemies: ISIS and Iran
• Why Erdogan of Turkey is one of the most dangerous political figures today

MORTON KLEIN, President of the Zionist Organization of America:

• Brett Stevens New York Times piece slams ZOA
• Steve Bannon is a friend of Israel
• How American tax dollars fund the families of Palestinian terrorists

LIZ YORE, Attorney and International Child Rights Advocate, Head of End FGM Today:

• The End FGM Campaign
• The brutal consequences of FGM procedures
• Upcoming federal court case regarding Detroit FGM ring

With Diana West, Fred Fleitz, Michael Daugherty and Adam Kredo

DIANA WEST, Nationally Syndicated Columnist, Blogs at DIanawest.net, Author of “American Betrayal” and “Death of the Grown Up”:

• 2017 Keeper of the Flame Dinner
• Senator Ted Cruz on truth-telling
• The willful blindness in the U.S. government regarding domestic threats 

FRED FLEIIZ, Senior VP for Policy & Programs at CSP, Former CIA Analyst, Former Chief of Staff for Amb. John Bolton in the State Department:

• The Keeper of the Flame Dinner 2017
• The current status of the North Korean threat
• Will sanctions against China ever be effective?

MICHAEL DAUGHETY, Senior Writer for Cyber Defense Magazine, Author of “the Devil Inside the Beltway: The Shocking Expose of the U.S. Government’s Surveillance and Overreach Into Cyber-Security, Medicine and Small Business:

• The unmasking of American citizens under the Obama administration
• What to do about section 702
• Consequences of the latest hacking of the NSA 

ADAM KREDO, Senior Writer for the Washington Free Beacon:

• Iranian colonization of the Middle East
• Why a global conflict in the MENA region is imminent
• Why a bi-partisan plan to combat Iran’s influence in Syria is essential

With Ambassador Yoram Ettinger

 AMBASSADOR YORAM ETTINGER, Former Minister for Congressional Affairs at Israel’s Embassy in D.C., Consultant to Israeli and U.S. Legislators:

• The strategy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Syria
• What are Israel’s red lines?
• Iran’s death wish for America

(PART TWO):

• President Trump’s strategy for the Middle East
• Is the U.S. wrongly emphasizing Europe’s stance on Iran?

(PART THREE):

• The challenges Iran poses to Israel
• Erdogan’s ultimate strategy for Turkey
• How the Muslim Brotherhood remains a present danger to Arab regimes 

(PART FOUR):

• The reality of the Palestinian agenda
• Consequences of the demographic changes taking place in Israel

With Giulio Meotti

GIULIO MEOTTI, Contributor to the Gatestone Institute, Italian Journalist:

• What is causing the decomposing civilization?
• Dangerous implications of Europe’s migrant crisis
• How do demographic changes in France relate to rise in crime?

(PART TWO):

• Positive signs of hope for France
• How the demographic explosion is perpetuating the threat

(PART THREE):

• The emergence and attack of right-wing parties in Europe
• What are ‘No go zones’ in Europe and how do they encourage the Sharia agenda?
• How is multicultural defined in the European Union? 

(PART FOUR)

• Erdogan’s ultimate strategy for Turkey

With Gordon Chang, Kevin Freeman, Patrick Dunleavy and Kyle Shideler

GORDON CHANG, Forbes.com Columnist, World Affairs Journal Blogger, The Daily Beast Contributor, Author of “The Coming Collapse of China and Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World”:

• The state of Sino-American relations following President Trump’s visit
• Current regional attitudes toward North Korea
• The functioning of the Transpacific Partnership (TPP)

KEVIN FREEMAN, Senior Fellow at Center for Security Policy, Host of Economic War Room, Founder of Globaleconomicwarfare.com, Author of “Game Plan: How to Protect Yourself from the Coming Cyber-Economic Attack”:

• President Trump’s overall achievements on Asia tour
• Did Trump do enough to reprimand China’s economic manipulation?
• Saudi Arabia’s financial warfare against Qatar
• Why we must reform our corporate tax structure 

PATRICK DUNLEAVY, Former Deputy Inspector General for the New York State Department of Corrections, Author of “The Fertile Soil of Jihad: Terrorism’s Prison Connection,” Consultant for the International Association of the Chiefs of Police:

• The systematic effort to undermine law enforcement
• The dangerous implications of political correctness in the law enforcement community
• Jihad in U.S. jails

KYLE SHIDELER, Director of the Threat Information Office at the Center for Security Policy, Former Director of Research and Communications at the Endowment for Middle East Truth:

• What is limited material support for terrorism?
• Obama’s 2009 speech in Cairo regarding ‘Zakat’
• Troubling reports regarding Mustafa Javed Ali in the NSC

With Stella Morabito

STELLA MORABITO, Senior Contributor at The Federalist, Creator of blog StellaMorabito.net:

• 100^th Anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution
• How collectivism functions in a totalitarian system
• What happens when you erase the concept of the individual?

(PART TWO):

• How political correctness serves as a tool of propaganda
• Dangers of forcing conformity/submission by parties of power 

(PART THREE):

• The 6 phases that lead to collectivism
• Historical consequences of restricting freedoms of speech
• How social media giants are currently utilizing propaganda 

(PART FOUR):

• How the SPLC scam profits through hate mongering

With Diana West, George Rasley, Dr. Stephen Blank and Rick Manning

DIANA WEST, Author of The Death of the Grown Up and American Betrayal:

• Anniversary of the greatest disaster of the 20^thcentury: The Bolshevik Revolution
• Election results 2017
• Dangers of democratic socialism

GEORGE RASLEY, Editor of Conservative HQ:

• A look inside the Virginia Governor race
• Does Kirstjen Nielsen represent the swamp that Trump promised to eradicate?
• The demise of the Democratic party

DR. STEPHEN BLANK, Senior Fellow for Russia at the American Foreign Policy Council, 26 years of experience as a Professor of National Security Studies at the Strategic Studies Institute of U.S. Army War College:

• The lingering effects of the Lenin enterprise
• Vladimir Putin’s nuclear weapon arsenal
• First strike scenarios in Moscow

RICK MANNING, President of Americans for Limited Government, Former Public Affairs Chief at the U.S> Department of Labor during the George W. Bush Administration, Nine years as a state lobbyist for the National Rifle Association:

• Fusion GPS and Donald Trump Jr. set up
• The Clinton team’s extensive Russian collusion
• Why isn’t Attorney General Sessions doing more regarding Clinton scandals?