Rebecca Skoryanc, Author at WestExec Advisors

Dan Shapiro writes with Shira Efron and Evan Gottesman in Foreign Policy: “Annexation Would Threaten U.S. Military Support for Israel”

"Israel’s March 2 election will likely leave Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the helm at least for the coming weeks, even if he is simply leading a caretaker government. But although he once again heads Israel’s largest political party, the prime minister, whose corruption trial begins on March 17, is now more exposed than ever before to challenges to his continued tenure. "In the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace, released in the final weeks of the [...]

Rebecca Skoryanc2020-03-13T15:38:24-04:00March 6, 2020|Geopolitical Perspectives|

Lisa Monaco interviewed on CNN

"We're seeing some good steps recently. One is [Pence] talked about getting test kits out to communities as a priority. That's a good thing. But we are woefully behind when it comes to our ability to test. As a country, we have done a mere fraction of the testing that other countries like the UK and South Korea have done... It's good to give people information, but people need to understand those numbers that [CNN] cited are very likely a substantial [...]

Rebecca Skoryanc2020-03-06T12:22:40-05:00March 5, 2020|Cybersecurity & Defense|

Lisa Monaco writes in Foreign Affairs: “Pandemic Disease Is a Threat to National Security”

"On January 13, 2017, national security officials assembled in the White House to chart a response to a global pandemic. A new virus was spreading with alarming speed, causing global transportation stoppages, supply-chain disruptions, and plunging stock prices. With a vaccine many months away, U.S. health-care infrastructure was severely strained. "No, I didn’t get that date wrong. This happened: it was part of a transition exercise that outgoing officials from the administration of President Barack Obama convened for the benefit of [...]

Rebecca Skoryanc2020-03-06T12:05:22-05:00March 3, 2020|Cybersecurity & Defense|

Danny Russel interviewed on Bloomberg, “Assessing China’s Response to the Coronavirus Outbreak”

"Danny Russel, a former U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asia who’s now a vice president of the Asia Society in New York, shares his views on how the Chinese government is dealing with the coronavirus outbreak..." Watch the full interview here: Full Interview

Rebecca Skoryanc2020-03-06T12:08:25-05:00March 2, 2020|Geopolitical Perspectives|

Lisa Monaco interviewed on CNN, “Coronavirus Kills 6 in Washington State”

"It's a whole of government effort—or ought to be. Homeland Security has a piece of this, but Health and Human Services, CDC, the State Department and Foreign Aid should come into this. The most effective thing we can do to protect ourselves from pandemic disease is to defend forward, as I've described it, which is to help and assist other countries to prevent those diseases before they get to our shores. So this has to be a whole of government effort [...]

Rebecca Skoryanc2020-03-06T12:14:24-05:00March 2, 2020|Cybersecurity & Defense|

Dan Shapiro quoted in Jewish Insider article, “Previewing Schumer’s Case for Bipartisanship on Israel”

"'People ask me if there is a collapse of bipartisan support for Israel. I don’t think so. But I do think there is a rise in partisan tension about what it means to support Israel. Those are not the same thing. I’ll be at AIPAC engaging in conversations with people from a range of backgrounds and with a variety of views, including some that differ from my own. I expect to find a lot of consensus around support for a close [...]

Rebecca Skoryanc2020-03-06T12:20:56-05:00March 1, 2020|Geopolitical Perspectives|

Michèle Flournoy writes with Steve Hadley in The Washington Post: “The U.S. Deal with the Taliban is an Important First Step”

"The agreement just signed between the United States and the Taliban is an important first step in a complex negotiation to end the war in Afghanistan. Under its terms, the Taliban agrees not to fund, train or otherwise support, within the territory it controls, any terrorist groups (including al-Qaeda and the Islamic State) that threaten the United States or the Afghan state it has helped to establish. If the Taliban fulfills this commitment, it will reduce the terrorist threat to Americans [...]

Rebecca Skoryanc2020-03-06T12:16:11-05:00February 29, 2020|Cybersecurity & Defense|

Dennis Ross quoted in The Times of Israel article, “Moving the U.S. Embassy Back to Tel Aviv? Technically Possible, But Very Unlikely”

"'It would not be easy for [Senator Sanders] given the legislation,' said Dennis Ross, a former US diplomat who has worked on the Israeli-Palestinian file for decades. "'The waiver was provided to justify why the embassy had not been moved given the requirement to do so. In theory, he might try to say for national security reasons we needed to do so. But what would those reasons be? For peace? What would be the signs this would make a difference?...'" Read [...]

Rebecca Skoryanc2020-03-06T12:19:30-05:00February 27, 2020|Geopolitical Perspectives|

Lisa Monaco quoted in The Hill article, “Trump Shakes Up Justice Department, Intelligence Community”

"'You’re seeing a real strain on these institutions and the strain is coming in the form of really challenging the norms under which they’ve operated in the past,' said Lisa Monaco, who served as assistant attorney general for national security during the Obama administration... "'In my 15 years of experience, I have never seen that happen before where the attorney general kind of reaches in to overrule the line prosecutors, and even as they were pursuing what was consistent with Justice [...]

Rebecca Skoryanc2020-03-04T11:01:57-05:00February 27, 2020|News|

Nick Rasmussen writes in Just Security: “The President’s War on Intelligence: Yes, It’s Worse Than You Think”

"Once again, the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) finds itself exactly where intelligence officials never want to be: in the headlines and being talked about on cable news —without the ability [to] speak publicly to defend their work or their professionalism. Instead, IC leaders and professionals are left playing defense against a president who routinely demonstrates his lack of understanding of their craft, his disregard—and even contempt—for their work product, and his mistrust of any IC leader who hasn’t affirmed personal fealty [...]

Rebecca Skoryanc2020-03-06T12:06:32-05:00February 27, 2020|Cybersecurity & Defense|

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