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Ahmed S. Hashim

Professor Ahmed S. Hashim is a leading authority on Middle Eastern, Central and South Asian security issues. A member of the United States Naval War College's strategic research department, Dr. Hashim recently returned from field research in Iraq.  

 

Anouar Boukhars
Anouar Boukhars is visiting professor of Political Science and director of the Center for Defense and Security Policy. Dr. Boukhars is also editor of Wilberforce Quarterly, Disaster Preparedness and New Insights.

 

Gal Luft

Gal Luft is executive director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (IAGS) 

 

James Jay Carafano
James Jay Carafano is
Senior Fellow for National Security and Homeland Security, The Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies, The Heritage Foundation 

 

James Lee Witt

James Lee Witt is the CEO and Chairman of James Lee Witt Associates, LLC, public safety and crisis management consulting firm. Mr. Witt served as Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency from 1993-2001 and oversaw the response to over 350 disasters including the most costly Northridge earthquake and nine state Midwest Floods. He is now advising Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.   

 

Laurent Murawiec

Laurent Murawiec is a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. A translator of Carl von Clausewitz’s On War (1999; in French), he is the author of La Guerre au XXIè siècle (2000; 2003 in Chinese); L’Esprit des Nations (2002); Princes of Darkness: The Saudi Assault on the West (2005). 

 

Michael O'Hanlon

Michael O'Hanlon is a senior fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution, where he specializes in U.S. defense strategy, the use of military force, homeland security and American foreign policy. Dr. O'Hanlon is a visiting lecturer at Princeton University, and a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the Council on Foreign Relations. His latest book is Defense Strategy for the Post-Saddam Era (Brookings, 2005).

 

Omar Karmi

Omar Karmi is managing editor of the Palestine Report and Jerusalem correspondent for the Jordan Times. 

 

Reuven Paz

Reuven Paz is the founder and director of the Project for the Research of Islamist Movements—PRISM—in the GLORIA Center, the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Israel. 

 

Sherifa Zuhur

Sherifa Zuhur is distinguished visiting professor of National Security Affairs at U.S. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, PA 

 

William L. Waugh, Jr

William L. Waugh, Jr., is Professor of Public Administration in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University.  Dr. Waugh serves on the Certified Emergency Manager (CEM) Commission that oversees the national credential for professional emergency managers and on the Emergency Management Accreditation Program (EMAP) Commission that develops standards for and accredits state and local emergency management programs. He is the author of Living with Hazards, Dealing with Disasters (2000). 

 


 

Michael O'Hanlon, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, analyses the role of DoD in homeland security. [More...]

Ahmed Hashim, senior professor at the Naval War, College, discusses the motivations and rationales of the Iraqi Insurgency in the Wilberforce Quarterly journal. [More...]

Anouar Boukhars, Director of the Center for Defense and Security Policy, analyses in this critical essay at Strategic Insights the challenges of extremism and terrorism in Jordan. [More...]
James Lee Witt, former Director of FEMA, analyses the role that the Military should play in natural disaster response [More...]
Sherifa Zuhur, distinguished visiting professor at the U.S. Army War College, analyses a new strategy for the new jihad in this article at the Wilberforce Quarterly journal. [More...]