Created in June 2020, MEI’s Defense Leadership Series is a speakers' forum for current and former high-level military and defense leaders from both the United States and the Middle East to discuss the most important policy issues facing the two sides. The Series was inaugurated on June 10 with a conversation with U.S. Marine Corps General and Commander of CENTCOM Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr.
In this episode, MEI senior fellow and director of the Defense and Security Program Bilal Y. Saab speaks to retired U.S. Army Lieutenant General (Ret.) Michael K. Nagata, currently a distinguished senior fellow on national security with MEI and previously the strategy director for the National Counterterrorism Center. He works today as a senior vice president and strategic advisor for CACI International. This conversation will focus on U.S. strategies for the great power competition, the future of U.S. irregular warfare and the global war on terrorism, and a range of U.S. defense and counterterrorism policy issues in Washington.
