Tensions Rise After Iran Shoots Down U.S. Drone

With Fred Fleitz, Seth Cropsey, Bill Gertz and Raheem Kassam

FRED FLEITZ, President and CEO Center for Security Policy, Former CIA analyst, Former Chief of Staff for Amb. John Bolton in the State Dept., Author of The Coming North Korea Nuclear Nightmare: What Trump Must to Reverse Obama’s Strategic Patience (2018):

• Dissecting the recent developments on the Persian Gulf
• An overview of President Trump’s Iran policy
• Will the EU continue to stand by Iran’s aggressive actions?

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):

• The growing threat to Hong Kong’s autonomy
• America’s stake in Taiwan
• Is the U.S. providing an adequate deterrent to China’s aggression against Taiwan?

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):

• IRGC shoots down American drone
• Expected retaliation against Iran
• Is President Trump’s maximum pressure campaign against Iran working?
• Dangers of China’s engagement in cyber-warfare against the U.S.

RAHEEM KASSAM, Editor-in-Chief of Human Events, Shillman-Ginsburg Writing Fellow at the Middle East Forum, Senior Distinguished Fellow at the Gatestone Institute, Former Chief Advisor to UK Independence Party Leader Nigel Farrage, Author of Enoch Was Right: ‘Rivers of Blood 50 Years On’:

• The prospects of Boris Johnson becoming next Prime Minister of the UK
• Ominous implications of China’s propaganda warfare in the U.S.
• Dissecting the current state of Brexit
• Implications of social media giants targeting conservative organizations