FDD Executive Director Jon Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with FDD Senior Fellow and international law expert Orde Kittrie. Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief/

FDD Executive Director Jon Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with Gary Osen, a terrorism financing lawyer currently suing Iran on behalf of the families of victims of October 7. Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief/

FDD Senior Vice President Jon Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with David Daoud, FDD Senior Fellow focused on Lebanon and Hezbollah. Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief/

FDD Senior Vice President Jonathan Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis on headlines of the Middle East, followed by a conversation with Madhav Das Nalapat, the UNESCO Peace Chair at Manipal University in India and the Editorial Director at ITV Network. Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief/

FDD Senior Vice President Jonathan Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis on headlines of the Middle East, followed by a conversation with Ari Sacher, an engineer and rocket scientist who is an expert on Israeli missile defense. Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief/

FDD Senior Vice President Jonathan Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis on headlines of the Middle East, followed by a conversation with Natasha Hausdorff, an international law expert and the director of UK Lawyers for Israel. Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief/

FDD Senior Vice President Jonathan Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis on headlines of the Middle East, followed by a conversation with Boris Zilberman, the director of public policy and strategy at the Christians United for Israel (CUFI) Action Fund and former deputy director of congressional relations at FDD. Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief/

FDD Senior Vice President Jonathan Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis on headlines of the Middle East, followed by a conversation with Ilan Berman, Senior Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council. Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief/

Jon Schanzer, FDD Senior Vice President for Research, delivers timely situational updates and analysis on the war in the Middle East, followed by a conversation with Nadav Eyal, award-winning Israeli journalist affiliated with Yedioth Ahronoth and Ynetnews. Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief/

While federal agencies and election officials repeatedly affirm the physical and cybersecurity of U.S. elections, a significant vulnerability remains — the public’s belief in the integrity of elections. Beijing, Moscow, and Tehran believe U.S. power presents a serious impediment to their ambitions and are taking concrete actions to target Americans. This is the latest battlefield of America’s adversaries, which are waging an ongoing and growing information war against Americans with the aim...

Jon Schanzer, FDD Senior Vice President for Research, delivers timely situational updates and analysis on the war in the Middle East, followed by a conversation with Eyal Hulata, FDD Senior International Fellow and former Israeli national security advisor and head of Israel’s National Security Council (NSC) under Prime Ministers Bennett and Lapid. Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief

Brad Bowman, Senior Director of FDD's Center on Military and Political Power, delivers timely situational updates and analysis on the war in the Middle East, followed by a conversation with Dana Stroul, Research Director at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy and the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) for the Middle East. Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief

FDD Senior Vice President Jon Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis on the war in the Middle East, followed by a conversation with Dr. Casey Babb, a Senior Fellow with the Macdonald Laurier Institute, an International Fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, and an Associate Fellow with the Royal United Services Institute in London. Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief/

FDD Senior Vice President Jon Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis on the war in the Middle East, followed by a conversation with FDD Morning Brief return guest Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL), a combat-decorated Green Beret and former White House and Pentagon policy advisor who is the author of the newly published book Hard Truths: Think and Lead Like a Green Beret. Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief/

FDD Senior Vice President Jon Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with Eugene Kontorovich, an Israeli legal scholar and professor at George Mason University specializing in international law and the Arab-Israeli conflict,. Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief/

FDD Senior Vice President Jon Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with Robert Greenway of The Heritage Foundation, who played an instrumental role in the groundbreaking Abraham Peace Accords. Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief/

Breaking news out of the Middle East: Israel has confirmed the elimination of Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar. Hamas’s political leader in Gaza since 2017, Yahya Sinwar is considered one of the masterminds behind the October 7, 2023, massacre on Israel. Sinwar rose through the Hamas ranks as a fierce advocate of violence against Israel, helping establish Hamas’s military, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, and the Majd, an internal security service for the Qassam Brigades. What does the death of...

FDD Senior Vice President Jon Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with counterterrorism expert Edmund Fitton-Brown, who previously served as the United Kingdom's ambassador to Yemen and head of the UN Sanctions Monitoring Team. Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief/

FDD Senior Vice President Jon Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with Anna Borshchevskaya of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief/

Today, China is the driving force behind much of the chaos we see around the world — from supporting rogue regimes such as Russia, Iran, and North Korea, to meddling in the Middle East, and interfering in America’s upcoming presidential election. China’s aggressive actions in the South China Sea and its expanding influence in the Middle East shed light on how Beijing’s ambitions are reshaping the global landscape. The Chinese Communist Party’s strategic calculus demands the question: what...

FDD Senior Vice President Jon Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with Brian Katulis of the Middle East Institute (MEI). Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief/

FDD Senior Vice President Jon Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with Israeli journalist and writer Amir Tibon. Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief/

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) aims to “reintegrate Taiwan,” effectively stripping the Taiwanese people of their de facto independence. Achieving this takeover with minimal military action and limited long-term damage to Taiwan’s infrastructure and economy would offer the CCP substantial economic, diplomatic, and military advantages. A well-executed, well-resourced, and well-timed cyber-enabled economic coercion campaign could provide the CCP with such an opportunity. To explore these...

FDD Senior Vice President Jon Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, a native of Gaza, and Resident Senior Fellow at The Atlantic Council. Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief/