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 to divide and exacerbate existing tensions so that we are too distracted and weak to project U.S. power abroad.

What specific actions are China, Russia, and Iran taking to undermine trust in the coming election? And how should we respond? How do these latest actions fit into their broader information war?

FDD hosts a panel discussion featuring Suzanne Spaulding from the Center for Strategic and International Studies; Bradley Bowman, senior director of FDD’s Center on Military and Political Power and editor of Cognitive Combat; RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, senior director of FDD’s Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation and co-author of an FDD memo on election interference; and FDD Research Fellow Ivana Stradner. The conversation will be moderated by Maggie Miller, cybersecurity reporter for Politico, with introductory remarks by FDD senior analyst on emerging threats Max Lesser.

For more, check out: fdd.org/events/2024/10/31/the-war-on-americas-2024-elections-how-us-adversaries-seek-to-divide-americans-and-undermine-trust/

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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,.

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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.

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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 Sinwar mean for Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza? How does it impact the broader war that Iran’s proxies are waging against Israel? What is the reaction within Israel – and within the Arab world? How might Israel, the United States, and our allies capitalize on this strategic shift on the battlefield?

FDD hosts a live SITREP with former IDF International Spokesperson and FDD Senior Fellow Jonathan Conricus and FDD Research Fellow Hussain Abdul-Hussain, moderated by FDD Senior Vice President for Research Jonathan Schanzer.

For more: fdd.org/events/2024/10/17/sinwar-is-dead-now-what-fdd-sitrep/

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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.

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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.

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