Name: 'Putting America on a War-Footing' Webinar Held by Committee on the Present Danger: China
Uploaded: 2025-04-18T19:03:58.000Z
Description: The Committee on the Present Danger: China, a Washington-based think tank, holds a webinar at 1 p.m. ET on April 18 on how the United States should prepare for "a shooting war that might be initiated in the near future and may not be confined to the Western Pacific."

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The Committee on the Present Danger: China, a Washington-based think tank, holds a webinar at 1 p.m. ET on April 18 on how the United States should prepare for "a shooting war that might be initiated in the near future and may not be confined to the Western Pacific."

Moderator:
Frank Gaffney, president, Institute for the American Future; vice chairman, Committee on the Present Danger: China

Charles “Sam” Faddis, former career clandestine service officer, Central Intelligence Agency; Army veteran; author, “Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA”; editor, AND Magazine on Substack
Topic: “August 1941 2.0? If the CCP Has an ‘Operation Z’ in Store for Us, What Will It Entail?”

Rosemary Gibson, co-author, “China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America’s Dependence on China for Medicine”; senior adviser at the Hastings Institute

Topic: “Reducing Our Critical Dependency on Chinese Supply Chains: China Rx, a Case Study”
Dr. Karen Siegemund, PhD, founder and president, The American Freedom Alliance; founding member, The Sovereignty Coalition
Topic: “Correcting Chinese Penetration of and Influence Operations Inside American Schools”

Lieutenant Colonel Guermantes “G-Man” Lailari, U.S. Air Force (Ret.), former USAF foreign area officer; former fellow, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Taiwan; currently a visiting researcher at the Institute of National Defense and Security Research (Taiwan)
Topic: “Rapid Capacity-building for America’s Pacific Allies: Maximizing Their Deterrent and, if Necessary, War-fighting Impact”

Trevor Loudon, senior fellow, Institute for the American Future; filmmaker; essayist; podcaster; and author, “Enemies Within” and “Comrade Prime Minister: Anthony Albanese’s 40-Year Alliance with Australian Communism”
Topic: “Rolling Up and Otherwise Neutralizing the CCP’s ‘Old Friends’ Here: Applying the Counter-Mafia Playbook”

Colonel John Mills, U.S. Army (Ret.), veteran special operator; former senior official responsible for Cybersecurity Policy, Office of the Secretary of Defense; former member, the National Security Council staff and detailed to the Department of Homeland Security; host, “The National Security Hour”; author, “War Against the Deep State”
Topic: “Contending with the CCP’s Cyber ‘Typhoons’ and Other Military Threats”

Todd Bensman, author, “Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History“ and “America’s Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation’s Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration”
Topic: “Assessing and Neutralizing the Apparent PLA Presence Inside the U.S.: ‘Crowdsourcing’ Situational Awareness”

Dave Walsh, former senior executive, Westinghouse; former president and CEO, Mitsubishi Power Systems Americas; Managing Director, Takotagroup LLC
Topic: “Protecting the Energy Sector: Mitigating Grid and Supply Chain Vulnerabilities”

John Guandolo, founder, Understanding the Threat; combat veteran U.S. Marine Force Reconnaissance Officer; former FBI Special Agent and Investigator, Counterterrorism Division
Topic: “The Red-Green Axis: Securing the Homefront” (Invited)

Brian Kennedy, chairman, Committee on the Present Danger: China; president, American Strategy Group; former president, Claremont Institute; author, “Communist China’s War Inside America”
Topic: “Protecting America: Deploying the Golden Dome and a Call to Action”