VICTOR DAVIS HANSON, the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior
Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover
Institution:
- Vladimir Putin’s ambition of ending the NATO Alliance
- Are nuclear weapon capabilities still an effective deterrence to conflict?
- President Obama’s increasingly isolationist foreign policy strategy
- Differing views of immigrants and Congress on immigration reform
BRUCE WEINROD, Former Secretary of Defense Representative to Europe and Defense Advisor to the U.S. Mission NATO:
- Is a contingency force of several thousand troops a useful deterrent against Vladimir Putin?
- The atrophying of American strategic and tactical nuclear capabilities
- Finding the political will to ensure that NATO is a credible alliance
BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor at The Washington Free Beacon:
- The case of eleven Libyan commercial jetliners missing after an Al-Qaeda-linked group captured the Tripoli Airport
- ‘Politicization of intelligence” in the Obama Administration
- A new FBI report that omits radical Islam as a domestic terrorist threat
- Concerns over Yemeni citizens training in the US to navigate oil tankers
- Advances in Chinese and North Korean military technology that threaten the U.S. pivot to Asia
- An FBI warning that Cuban intelligence is actively trying to recruit American assets, and especially liberal academics
OLIVIER GUITTA, a security and geopolitical risk expert on Africa and the Middle East:
- The continued downward spiral of the Libyan state after the Western-backed overthrow of the Gaddafi regime
- Threats stemming from the disappearance of 11 commercial jetliners in Libya
- Special techniques used to recruit females into jihadist organizations