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From Al Qaeda and the Mahdi Army in Iraq, to the Taliban in Afghanistan, to Hezbollah in Lebanon, some of the most challenging opponents facing Western militaries today are non-state actors. How can the United States best approach these opponents, and how should it structure its defense policy in order to more effective deal with them in the future? To discuss this question, we are delighted to have as our guest Jeffrey White, Berrie Defense Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and an expert on the military capabilities of non-state groups in Iraq and the Levant.

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Michèle Flournoy was appointed President of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) in January 2007, a venture dedicated to advancing a strong, centrist national security strategy.  Prior to co-founding CNAS, she was a Senior Adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where she worked on a broad range of defense policy and international security issues. Previously, she was a distinguished research professor at the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University (NDU), where she founded and led the university’s Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) working group, which was chartered by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to develop intellectual capital in preparation for the Department of Defense’s 2001 QDR.