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Kushner Has No Idea What He Is Saying About the Middle East
Eric Edelman, former ambassador to Turkey, tells me, “The Palestinian-Israeli conflict deserves to be settled — on its own terms.” He continues, “For years the conventional wisdom was that the key to resolving the conflicts of and providing security in the Middle East was an Arab-Israeli peace deal. It was never true.” However, “to put it back at the center of things now, when the strategic circumstances and conflicts in the region are in so much turmoil and so clearly disconnected from anything to do with the occupied territories, is really surprising and also a little disheartening,” he observes.
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Sam Dastyari is a Chinese ‘agent of influence’: ex-intelligence chief
"There is evidence that he may have been recruited as an agent of influence," said Ross Babbage, a former head of strategic analysis at the Office of National Assessments, the government's peak intelligence adviser. "That's my belief."
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Trump’s military buildup still a mirage
“To go back to a Reagan-era tagline," she added, "where’s the beef?”
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ASSESSING THE REBUILD: WILL WE HAVE THE STRATEGY AND RESOURCES TO REBUILD THE MILITARY IN FY19?
Evaluate the prospects for the Trump Administration’s goal of rebuilding the military.
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McMaster, Pompeo among speakers at 5th annual Reagan National Defense Forum
Fox News’ National Security correspondent Jennifer Griffin led a panel with Marilyn Hewson, the chairman, president and CEO of Lockheed Martin, Dr. Kathleen Hicks, the Senior Vice President; Henry A. Kissinger Chair; Director, International Security Program, Gen. Robert Neller, Commandant of the Marine Corps., Hon. Eric Edelman, the former Under Secretary of Defense (Policy) and former Ambassador to Turkey and Finland and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen D-NH.
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Strategic Advice from Smart People:
“We've spent decades, first imagining that North Korea was just going to collapse on its own, then imagining that they wouldn't be able to master nuclear weapons, then imagining that they wouldn't be able to master the ability to deliver them over longer ranges. And we are where we are, but I think we need to pay attention to this allure, which still exists, of wishful thinking, to imagine a world as we wish it was, not the world as it is. As far as North Korea's concerned, I think we are going to have to be more active in deterring North Korea. We're also going to need to be more active in reassuring our allies. And in the end, that may prove to be the more difficult of the two tasks.” — Thomas Mahnken, president and CEO, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.