The State of America’s Missile Defense Systems

With Luis Fleischman, Hank Cooper, Dan Gallington and Jim Simpson

LUIS FLEISCHMAN, Advisor for the Menges Hemispheric Security Project at the Center for Security Policy, Author of “Latin America in the Post-Chavez Era: The Threat to U.S. Security,” Adjunct Professor at Florida Atlantic University:

• Dissecting the demise of Venezuela
• How has Maduro maintained power in Caracas?
• Implications of Maduro’s ‘Special Action Forces’

HANK COOPER, Director of the Strategic Defensive Initiative Organization (SDIO) during the Bush Administration, Chairman of Applied Research Associates, Senior Associate of the National Institute of Public Policy, Visiting Fellow at the Heritage Center:

• The state of our present missile defense systems
• How U.S. capabilities compare to our adversaries today
• A review of Trump’s nuclear deterrence policy

DAN GALLINGTON, Senior Policy and Program Advisor, George C. Marshall Institute, Served in senior national security policy positions in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Department of Justice, and as bipartisan general counsel for the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence:

• The state of our counter-intelligence
• Consequences of China’s theft of OPM data
• An overview of U.S. government background investigations

JIM SIMPSON, Freelance Investigative Journalist, Former Economist and Budget Examiner for the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Author of The Red-Green Axis 2.0: An Existential Threat to America and the World (2019):

• What is the red-green axis?
• Implications of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s troubling associations
• How Western Civilization is being threatened today