Jen Weedon, Mauricio Claver-Carone, Bill Roggio, Bill Gertz

JEN WEEDON, FireEye Inc. Threat Intelligence Manager:

• The Russian state-sponsored cyber operation known as APT28
• Russian regional interests seen in the Black Energy malware campaign
• Cyber vulnerabilities of industrial control systems and critical infrastructure
• The problem of attribution in deterring such threats

MAURICIO CLAVER-CARONE, executive director of the US-Cuba Democracy PAC:

• Cuba's enabling of a Venezuelan narco-state
• Details of the North Korean vessel intercepted last summer in the Panama Canal carrying undeclared weapons from Cuba
• Contradictions in UN policy towards the Castro regime
• Predictions on U.S. policy towards Latin America in the upcoming lame duck session

BILL ROGGIO, managing editor of The Long War Journal:

• Will the Administration push for a new Authorization for the Use of Military Force despite its incoherent strategy on the Islamic State?
• Worrisome U.S. pandering to Tehran
• Drone strikes in Afghanistan: "tactical successes of a strategic failure"
• Reports that President Obama intends to fulfill his campaign promise to close Guantanamo Bay

BILL GERTZ, senior editor at the Washington Free Beacon:

• Increased Kremlin adventurism following the sham elections of pro-Russian separatists in Eastern Ukraine
• Europe being held hostage over Russian natural gas
• National Security Agency Director Mike Roger’s worrisome speech on cyber deterrence
• Using the power of the purse to counter an appeasement-oriented White House foreign policy