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Pat Harrigan, Brig. General (Ret.) Robert Spalding, Mark Tapscott, Chris Mitchell
On today’s program: Pat Harrigan, U.S. Representative for North Carolina’s 10th District, Green Beret, and member of the House Armed Services Committee, offers insight into the U.S. destruction of Iran’s nuclear program and President Trump’s regime change comments. Brig. General (Ret.) Robert Spalding, former B-2 Stealth Bomber pilot and previous White House National Security Council senior director, discusses the undertaking of a massive strategic military strike and Iran’s response.
Extend Auction Authority Now
Having served for decades as a government policymaker and regulator, my experience suggests that it is not exactly rare to see federal programs misfire, or worse, completely waste taxpayer funds. For those select instances, however, when programs are efficient and effective, successes must be celebrated and continued. That is precisely the case for the Federal Communications Commission’s spectrum auction authority.
The SCO’s Clumsy Push to Disrupt the World Order
It was a busy week for Washington’s foreign-policy elite. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Armenia to express sympathy following a round of fighting with Azerbaijan that left an estimated 200 dead in their contested border regions. Before heading to London for Queen Elizabeth’s funeral, President Biden warned Vladimir Putin against using nuclear weapons in Ukraine and repeated that the U.S. will defend Taiwan with American troops if Beijing invades.
Space: The Next Frontier for National Security
Arthur Herman appears on NTD to discuss the US-China space race.
To Fix the China Threat, Cut the CCP Off Entirely
General Robert Spalding appears on NTD to discuss the importance of eliminating the Chinese Communist Party’s influence from US politics.
Will the US Lose to China in a War?
Robert Spalding joins The James Altucher Show to compare American and Chinese warfighting capabilities.
JADC2 Should Embrace Hardened 5G, Edge Computing
Viewpoint: JADC2 Should Embrace Hardened 5G, Edge Computing Joint all-domain command and control, or JADC2, is the military’s latest buzzy acronym and one of the stated priorities for the Defense Department. Yet it is a concept without a clear solution and is likely to languish without the infrastructure to ensure its success. One of the biggest challenges for JADC2 is interoperability.
SPALDING: Russia’s Botched Ukraine Invasion Still Hands China Lessons For Seizing Taiwan
With the eyes and hearts of the world fixed on Russia’s ruthless, bloody attack on Ukraine, China sees the invasion as a dress rehearsal for how it might occupy Taiwan, a move that could come within the next five years but with distinct strategic and tactical differences. Russia’s game plan was to swiftly overtake Ukrainian territory with little resistance from the local population.
Russia and China are ramping up a new cold war and our independence is at risk
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! As COVID-inspired supply chain interruptions have shown, the world’s economy is conspicuously more vulnerable than many would have imagined just two years ago. But if we strip away pandemic-related disruptions to labor, logistics and transportation, it’s evident that there are even more insidious, intentional forces aimed at scuttling our access to global goods and services.
Communist China Has Thrown Out the Old Rules of War
When I first read the Chinese war manual “Unrestricted Warfare” in 1999, I thought it was wacky. I was flying B-2 Stealth bombers out of Whiteman Air Force Base in western Missouri and reading a lot about war.
China Has Thrown Out the Old Rules of War
(AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, Pool) When I first read the Chinese war manual “Unrestricted Warfare” in 1999, I thought it was wacky. I was flying B-2 Stealth bombers out of Whiteman Air Force Base in western Missouri and reading a lot about war.
Crisis for Biden’s Chaotic Foreign Policy
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about trade with Russia, from the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 11, 2022. (Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images) U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about trade with Russia, from the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 11, 2022. (Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images) The Biden administration’s foreign policy has entered a deep and possibly transformative crisis.
Russia Gaining Momentum in Advance on Kyiv
In an interview with Laura Ingraham on Fox News, Peter Rough and Rob Spalding discuss the continued Russian attack on Ukraine.
China's Real Challenge Isn't Military
Joseph Votel & Robert Spalding & Ramon Marks National Interest February 1, 2022 Free-market enterprise must stop selling rope to the hangman before it is too late. Read Full Article »
Is 2022 the Year America’s Technology Supremacy Ends?
//php echo do_shortcode('[responsivevoice_button voice="US English Male" buttontext="Listen to Post"]') ?> In an age when American national sovereignty depends more than ever on our ability to access and manage secure, interconnected data, the newly passed $1 trillion U.S. infrastructure bill is the latest failure to invest in our technology future.
Vulnerable 5G networks threaten world’s critical infrastructure
The global deployment of fifth-generation wireless networks is as fraught with peril as it is with promise. The allure of 5G is obvious: Data speeds are up to 100 times as fast as prevailing 4G and 4G/LTE service, and 5G offers immense network capacity that promises to connect billions of people and devices.
Ep. 16: Gen. Robert Spalding, China's Stealth War
Ep. 16: Gen. Robert Spalding, China's Stealth War Episode Summary Hudson Institute Senior Fellow retired Brigadier General Robert Spalding joins The Realignment to discuss his new book about China's decades-long strategy to use American institutions to undermine U.S. national security.
The CCP’s Washington DC
Commentary On April 22, House Democrats unilaterally approved H.R. 51, which would grant statehood to Washington, D.C. if signed into law. Progressives claim this legislation will strengthen our democracy by enfranchising D.C. residents who currently pay federal taxes but lack representation in Congress like other Americans. However, D.C. is full of corrupt officials and elites with financial ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Making D.C. a state would thus disenfranchise D.C. residents.
China Space Program: America Must Retain Strategic Superiority
The Long March 5 Y-4 rocket carrying the Tianwen-1 Mars probe takes off from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Wenchang, Hainan Province, China, July 23, 2020. (Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters) America must keep pace to prevent China from achieving strategic superiority.
What the Chinese communists don't understand about our democracy
Following the assault on the U.S. Capitol last month, the Chinese Communist Party wasted no time in painting the episode as representative of the chaos sown by democracy. It even used this rhetorical sleight of hand to undermine the legitimacy of Hong Kong’s democratic protest movement.
Stealth War: How China Took Over While America's Elite Slept: Spalding, Robert: 9780593084342: Books
5.0 out of 5 stars A soldier’s call to wake and unite us to protect our freedom To be more precise, the book is about how the Communist Party of China (CCP) took over while America’s elite slept. Let’s state some facts about the CCP first: • Fifty to one hundred million people perished under its 70-year rule. • It claimed to be anti-dictatorship and pro-democracy while fighting for power in the 1940s, but produced the most brutal dictator and ruthless regime soon after it took over China.
Our Alarming Silence on China's Violations of Rights
This year, protesters from Minneapolis to Minsk demanded action from their governments. In the United States, demonstrations spurred change in criminal investigations, policy reform, and a national discourse about racial inequality. In Hong Kong, protests against mainland China’s infringements upon the semi-autonomous city’s civil liberties met a different beast: a despotic regime.
Heart to Heart: How the U.S. and Taiwan Can Save the Chip Industry From China
Semiconductors are the “heart” of the American tech industry; it is the silicon in these chips from which Silicon Valley derives its name. Semiconductors function as the heart of any digital system, from cell phones to toasters, rendering them crucial to the security of any device. The United States, along with Taiwan, dominates the various facets of the semiconductor industry.
How to Handle the Growing China Space Threat
With the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) announcing plans to conduct over 40 orbital launches in 2021 with “the [Communist] Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core,” will the U.S. finally take the growing space threat from China as seriously as it should? China aims to land on the moon and build a base there by the decade’s end.
China and the Crisis We Can’t Waste
As more than 70,000 Wuhan virus victims are laid to rest across America, the time will soon come to place the blame squarely where it belongs—on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The media has already chronicled the malign acts of Xi Jinping’s regime, which hid and then minimized the danger of the virus. Some authors are already discussing the possibility for legal recourse against the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
Defective data, risky results; Here’s how the Harvard COVID-19 model got it wrong
(Getty) Coronavirus around blood cells Op-ed views and opinions expressed are solely those of the author. As world governments face unprecedented medical, social, and economic fallout from the COVID-19 crisis, they turn to a group of specialists who rarely gain notoriety or acclaim outside their communities – virologists, immunologists, epidemiologists and a myriad of statisticians, mathematicians, and other academics.
I tried to warn the National Security Council about China — and was fired for it | Spectator USA
The societal implications of 5G — on how we live and how we work — are truly mind-boggling. And so is the capacity to abuse that power. Let’s be totally clear: anything connected to an unsecured 5G network will be a potential weapon that can be used to gain geopolitical influence and control. If China were to control a 5G network, it would be able to weaponize the technology within entire cities — or entire countries — served by that network and hold that city or state at its mercy.
Transcript: Taiwan's Strong COVID-19 Response: Remarks by Foreign Minister Joseph Wu
View PDF Following is the full transcript of the April 9th, 2020 Hudson online livestream event titled Taiwan’s Strong COVID-19 Response: Remarks by Foreign Minister Joseph Wu John Walters: Hello. I’m John Walters. It is my pleasure to welcome our viewing audience to Hudson Institute’s continuing analysis of the Coronavirus epidemic. Today our focus is on Taiwan’s success in protecting its citizens against Covid-19. Taiwan’s elected leaders understood the danger of the virus quickly.
Video Livestream | Taiwan's Strong COVID-19 Response: Remarks by Foreign Minister Joseph Wu
Please be advised: This event will be livestreamed only starting at 12:00 p.m. EDT, Thursday, April 9. If you have questions for our panelists, please email [email protected] or simply ask questions during the live event on Twitter by tagging @HudsonInstitute. Join Hudson Institute for a conversation on Taiwan’s battle against COVID-19. The event will feature recorded remarks from Taiwan’s Foreign Minister Joseph Wu followed by a discussion of experts.
The Hidden Price of American Chinese Advocacy
From Nixon’s visit to China in 1972 to Deng Xiaoping’s sweeping economic reforms, the United States assumed that capital success, American investment, and expansion of diplomatic relations inevitably would lead to a democratized China that embraced the United States. This folly has produced a growing adversarial threat posed by a rising, ambitious superpower.
China Must Be Held Accountable for the Wuhan Coronavirus Ravaging the World
The first global war of the 21st century began in December without a shot fired. A Wuhan doctor in China noticed some patients admitted to the hospital were exhibiting viral pneumonia consistent with SARS. Only it wasn’t SARS. When he tried to sound the alarm, he triggered the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) authoritarian control on information. Discussion of the illness was prohibited, and the doctor – who tried to warn colleagues through social media – was detained.
China Is Using Tech Giant Huawei as the Tip of the Spear in Efforts To Harm US
The Communist Party of China is using Huawei as the tip of a spear to harm the U.S. and advance CPC interests. The CPC is effectively using Huawei Technologies USA, Inc. and Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., to sue the United States of America for allegedly violating the U.S. Constitution! While the irony of a Chinese company suing its governing authority tempts many to dismiss the event, Americans should care deeply about this.
The Huawei threat: China considers data to be critical national infrastructure
Is Huawei a national security threat to the United States? Yes, but the answer is complicated and requires an understanding of the nature of national security in an internet-powered globalized world. The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has focused on developing 5G to establish technological superiority in the 21st century and Huawei is at the heart of that strategy.
Who Owns the Pacific Bravo?
What does globalization mean for national security? This is a question the U.S. government’s National Security Strategy (NSS)—a document that outlines both threats to the United States and the strategy to address them attempted to answer, but it seems many have misunderstood the conclusions. What makes the current NSS different from previous versions is the recognition that traditional threats aren’t solely what the U.S. should be worried about.
Financial Secrecy is Undermining American Foreign Policy
(GETTY IMAGES) (GETTY IMAGES) The State Department’s International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) is an annual publication that, among other things, collates a wealth of useful information about anti-money laundering (AML) capabilities and vulnerabilities in other countries.
Spring 2019 | Washington State Magazine | Washington State University
He did not want the rest of his life to be like his past. Enter education.
To prevent lethal 5G, we need a digital Second Amendment
The entire wireless world descended on Barcelona this week for the annual Mobile World Congress. Amidst the fancy new gadgets like folding phones it is important we maintain perspective on the forthcoming transition to 5G. The convergence of big data, AI, and 5G brings benefits, but the societal costs may be steeper than at any time in the history of communications.
Do Not Give Up on Stealth Technology
If the U.S. Air Force’s biggest problem is that it is so good at its job that some Americans have come to question its relevance, stealth appears to be suffering a similar fate within the Air Force. In his recent series of articles for War on the Rocks, which challenge the utility of stealth technology for future generations of aircraft, Col. Mike “Starbaby” Pietrucha offers a number of thought-provoking ideas that deserve further discussion.
Future Threats Will Require Much More Than the A-10
Those fighting to save the A-10 jet fighter are missing the point. The U.S. Air Force is the best in the world at close air support in a permissive environment like Afghanistan, even without the A-10. In the future, elite U.S. forces can do without it as the military continues to chase terrorists across the Middle East and Africa, and the A-10 has even less purpose in any future high-end combat in more contested areas, like China, with rapidly improving air defenses.
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