Escalation on Israel’s Northern Border

With Fred Fleitz, Ilan Berman, David Goldman and Christian Whiton

FRED FLEITZ, Senior VP for Policy and Programs at CSP, Former CIA analyst, Former Chief of Staff for Amb. John Bolton in the State Dept.:

• Implications of Steele dossier
• Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
• Did Russia interfere in the 2016 elections?
• John Brennan’s involvement with scandal

ILAN BERMAN, Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council, Associated Faculty at Missouri State University’s Defense and Strategic Studies, Editor of The Journal of International Security Affairs, Author of “Iran’s Deadly Ambition: The Islamic Republic’s Quest for Global Power” (Aug. 2015):

• Escalating Israeli-Iranian tension
• Israel’s existential threat
• Ambitions of the Iranian regime for regional hegemony

DAVID GOLDMAN, Author of How Civilizations Die, Best known for his series of essays in the Asia Times under the pseudonym Spengler:

• Russia’s presence in Syria
• Turkey’s role in the Middle East
• Demography transformation in Turkey

CHRISTIAN WHITON, Principal, D.C. International Advisory, Former Special Advisor to the Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs, Author of Smart Power: Between Diplomacy and War:

• Are we exercising smart power in North Korea?
• The rising threat from Iran
• Secretary Tillerson in Lebanon
• Focus on Asia in National Security Strategy