Nonstate actors but from old nationstate adversaries who have learned from the change right at the end of the Twentieth Century and to understand the only way to defeat us is by using irregular or indirect means of attack, the assassination of general soleimani fit into that theory . It did because of who he was, his in official title. Thank you for having me on this show. The shadow commander. He wasnt a Major General in the regular Army Commanding divisions in a normal battle where you face off in a theater of combat and everything is aboveboard, the battle of the bulge, this isnt the first gulf war. This is an individual who used proxy forces in Six Continents including the us and the recent attempt against the saudi ambassador to wage irregular warfare using means the weaker power developed against a far more powerful adversary, the United States is no longer a superpower. We are a hyperpower, nobody can come close to us in a conventional capacity. We have 12 Nuclear Aircraft carri
On cspan leading to a senate trial. Live, unfiltered coverage on cspan. On demand at cspan. Org impeachment, and listen on the free cspan radio app. Joining us at the table, ofeel jaffer is the founder the National Security institute at George Mason Universitys law school, also Vice President of a firm called iron net cybersecurity. Good morning. Jaffer. We will get started talking about cybersecurity. Guest it was started by keith alexander. We do Cyber Defense, so we look behavioral threats on not just one company, but an ecosystem. Host lets talk about Cyber Defense. We saw the commentary piece you wrote, iranian Cyber Attacks are coming. Considering where we are in this situation, what are you expecting in the area of Cyber Attacks . A the it looks like escalatory de situation. We responded with the death of emstom soleimani qass soleimani and then they had a debate internally. How big do we go. My assessment was they would come back with a response, but it would not be so big as t
This process. If you would like to participate ifphone, call 202 7488000 you a democrat. Republican, call 202 7488001. If you are an independent, call 202 7488002. You can also post a comment cspanwj, that is our twitter handle. They ride to that the speaker said that she would move forward next week on sending the articles of impeachment to the senate, setting the stage for the trial of President Trump. Nancy pelosi withheld the articles for several weeks as democrats sought assurances that the senate trial would include testimony from witnesses blocked by the white house. Republican from kentucky made no such guarantees and said that he mcconnell made no such guarantees. He said he would dismiss the articles against President Trump if they were not sent over soon. A dismissal as a coverup and it deprives the American People truth,ruth, get the nancy pelosi wrote. There is a lot of reaction coming into this, including this story in the Washington Examiner blunder or brilliance is the
Teethree in your 28 team book why we fight do you write the most significant threat we face today to emanate from the world of nonstate actors they come from old nationstate adversaries who have learned from the end of the 20th century toy understand the only way to defeat us is by using your regular or indirect means of attack. The assassination of general t14 fit into this quick. It was the shadow commander because he wasnt just a Major General in the regular army and a normal battle it isnt the battleyb of the bulge or the first gulf war but use proxy forces on Six Continents including the us with the italian ambassador to wage irregular warfare the weaker power has developed a far more powerful adversary like United States no longer a superpower we are a hyperpower no one can come close to us in our conventional capacity we have 12 aircraft carriers we have more special forces than most countries have soldiers. So how is a nation as powerful as us to use proxies and terrorism and i
Host joining us this week on newsmakers, the present of tom emmer, public and of minnesota and the chair of the National Republican congressional committee. Thanks for joining us this morning. Guest good morning. Editor andur hotline the House Campaign reporter, thanks for coming. Thanks for having us. Host go ahead and start. Lets start with the current news. How has the last week of impeachment hearings altered the trajectory of the 2020 race in terms of messaging or outcome . Talking aboutare the republican side, the messaging issue is interesting because both sides is a little bit different. The republican side, i have not changed my opinion of the democrats that the new socialist democrat majority in the house literally gave away the majority the day it started this impeachment proceeding. The polling over the last week shows it. Since they have socalled made it public, independent voters are losing very quickly. We already knew from polling done shortly after this began that two