Thoughts on a Busy Year of National Security

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With Bill Gertz

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor at the Washington Free Beacon:

PART ONE:

• A year of Communist China pushing the U.S. out of Asia
• Intelligence brief on secret Chinese nuclear forces
• China’s new J-31 stealth jet and DF31B missile

PART TWO:

• Chinese Mission Action 2014 and combined-arms warfare
• Naval aggression in the South and East China Seas
• How new asymmetric advances are changing China’s capabilities in the space and cyber domains
• Looking back at the five PLA hackers indicted in the United States

PART THREE:

• The North Korean information warfare campaign
• America’s failure to counter the radical Islamist ideology in 2014
• The need for an “Information America” service to battle anti-U.S. propaganda

PART FOUR:

• Steps for the Pentagon to improve U.S. nuclear deterrence
• Ballistic missiles currently in occupied Crimea and other prior Russian violations of the 1987 INF Treaty
• Sequestration funding cuts and protracted wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq hemorrhaging U.S. conventional forces
• The Obama Administration’s passive approach to cyber conflict