ISIS’ genocidal efforts to establish a Caliphate in Syria and Iraq have been met with escalating military resistance reducing its territory and inflicting substantial losses on its leadership and fighters. It has responded by exporting terrorism against the West and throughout the Middle East in what is likely to become a protracted campaign of terrorism. In the words of FBI Director James Comey, we face a terrorist “diaspora” that includes threats from abroad and from home grown, self-radicalized, lone wolves.
ISIS’ demonstrated ability to project global terrorism must be countered through multilateral collaboration with allies and increased vigilance on the home front. To assess the origins of ISIS, its future, and U.S. efforts to defeat it we welcome James Kitfield. As the senior national security and foreign affairs correspondent for National Journal magazine, James Kitfield has written on defense, national security, and foreign policy issues for over two decades. His reporting from conflict zones such as Iraq, and Afghanistan has won numerous awards. Mr. Kitfield is the only three-time winner of the prestigious Gerald R. Ford Award for Distinguished Reporting on National Defense, most recently in 2009 for his first-hand reporting on the Afghan War. The Military Reporters and Editors Association and the Medill School of Journalism have awarded Mr. Kitfield their top prize for excellence in reporting five times, most recently in 2011 when he won top honors for his coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The National Press Club honored Mr. Kitfield with its Edwin Hood Award for Diplomatic Correspondence to recognize excellence in reporting on diplomatic and foreign policy issues in 2000, and Mr. Kitfield also received the Stewart Alsop Media Excellence Award, sponsored by the Association of Former Intelligence Officers, for his coverage of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and follow-on events. Mr. Kitfield is author of two books, War & Destiny and Prodigal Soldiers. He frequently comments on national security and foreign affairs issues on radio and television, including National Public Radio’s “Diane Rehm Show” and Friday News Roundup, the PBS News Hour, Washington Week in Review with Gwen Ifil, CNN, Fox, BBC, C-SPAN, Voice of America, the McLaughlin Group and other broadcast outlets. Mr. Kitfield is currently a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress in Washington D.C. |
Date: Thursday, September 22, 2016
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