National Security Still in Need of a Strategy

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With Jed Babbin, Michael Auslin, Daniel Gallington, Andrew McCarthy

JED BABBIN, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense and co-author of “The BDS War Against Israel”:

• Why the new National Security Strategy is still not a strategy
• Smart defense spending and the Quadrennial Defense Review
• The President’s Bergdahl problem
• Are Qatar and Turkey true allies of the United States?

Dr. MICHAEL AUSLIN, Director of Japan Studies at the American Enterprise Institute:

• The current state of Sino-Japanese relations
• China’s increasingly assertive use of territorial claims to harass neighbors
• Shinzo Abe’s moves to create a more dynamic Japanese foreign policy
• Weighing the nuclear option in pacifist Japan

DANIEL GALLINGTON, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Territorial Security:

• European governments’ failings to properly assimilate their large Muslim populations into greater society
• Walking the fine line of free speech as a modern-day journalist
• Two important Patriot Act provisions up for renewal in Congress

ANDY McCARTHY, former federal prosecutor:

• The Obama Administration’s hopes that the Muslim Brotherhood is the moderate Islamist group that can stabilize the Middle East
• Muslim Brotherhood stated goals of unseating el-Sisi’s government in Egypt
• Strategic patience: the strategy of doing nothing?
• President Obama’s statements at the National Prayer Breakfast