Michael Pregent, Bing West, Michael Auslin, Max Abrahms

MICHAEL PREGENT, Senior Middle East Strategic Analyst and Consultant, Visiting Fellow at the National Defense University:

• President Obama’s plan for fighting ISIS
• The sectarian divide in Iraq
• Thoughts on the U.S. training of Iraqi military and Sunni tribes
• ISIS’s threat to Baghdad

BING WEST, Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs:

• Effects that American troops can have assisting Iraqi security forces
• What must the United States do to defeat ISIS?
• The spread of Iranian militias in the Middle East

MICHAEL AUSLIN, Director of Japan Studies at AEI:

• What makes China's hack of OPM unique, and how much might the U.S. retaliate?
• How American taxpayers are inadvertently subsidizing the growth of the Chinese military
• Japan's burgeoning leadership role in Asia
• Finding an "Asia Policy," and not merely a "China Policy"

MAX ABRAHMS, Asst. Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University:

• The Administration’s reasoning for the deployment of troops to train Iraqi security forces
• Risks behind arming a Sunni force in Iraq
• Prospects of a partitioned Iraq