by Michael F. McNamara | Jun 20, 2017 | Afghanistan, Asia, CENTCOM, Current Events, Foreign Affairs, Iran, Iraq, ISIL, Korea, NATO, North Korea, Russia, Syria
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Joe DUNFORD, appeared before the National Press Club yesterday (Monday, June 19 2017) and YOU NEED TO LISTEN TO HIS COMPLETE COMMENTS — you’ll be smarter, trust me.
The Chairman talks Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, SU-22’s being shot down, Russia, Turkey, Iran, North Korea, the Defense Budget and strategies in each of these regions as well as his vision of how American involvement contributes to success. What you’ll get is complete answers to difficult questions, not sound bites.
Well done by the National Press Club!
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by Michael F. McNamara | Jun 12, 2017 | Pacific Rim Security, South Korea
Grant Newsham
Japan Forum for Strategic Studies
Senior Researcher
Col USMC (ret)
Monday, June 12 2017 — Hour 2
Grant Newsham, Col USMC (ret), and our Pacific Rim Security expert joined us to interpret the latest events from the Korean Peninsula, (1) South Korea pausing the THAAD battery deployment, (2) North Korea’s surface-to-ship missile demonstration and (3) American diplomats singing China’s praises for pressuring North Korea with no apparent evidence of progress.
We also discuss the ongoing siege on Mindanao between the Philippine Army partnered with US Special Forces and Islamic Fundamentalists which is the latest chapter in the a decades old conflict.
A GREAT translator of things in the Western Pacific.
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by Michael F. McNamara | Jun 5, 2017 | Pacific Rim Security
Grant Newsham
Japan Forum for Strategic Studies
Senior Researcher
Col USMC (ret)
Monday, June 05 2017, Hour 2
Grant Newsham, Col USMC (ret), joined the program to discuss his recent article in the Asia Times entitled “US Marines and Okinawa: Enough exasperation to go around“
We discuss US Marine presence on Okinawa and Japanese politics relative to that. Our presence in Guam and Australia and the future of the South China Sea.
Grant also attempts to answer the question — what’s in the future for our Western Pacific allies
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by Michael F. McNamara | Jun 5, 2017 | Foreign Affairs, Pacific Rim Security
Monday, June 05 2017, Hour 1
Secretary of Defense Jame Mattis delivered a speech to Pacific Rim allies at the Shangri-La Dialogue defense conference in Singapore. You’ll hear his entire speech today.
His speech is focused on the Pacific Rim; his speech and the Q & A session that follows is certainly worth a listen.
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by Michael F. McNamara | May 18, 2017 | Japan, North Korea
Grant Newsham
Japan Forum for Strategic Studies
Senior Researcher
Col USMC (ret)
Grant Newsham, Col USMC (ret) — an intelligence officer by trade discusses two issues in the news with us:
(1) The high level “leaks’ that we read about almost on a daily basis
(2) The situation in the Western Pacific — has China taken ANY tangible step to reign in North Korea?
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