Guermantes Lailari
Guermantes Lailari is a retired USAF Foreign Area Officer specializing in the Middle East and Europe as well as counterterrorism, irregular warfare, and missile defense. He has studied, worked, and served in the Middle East and North Africa for over 14 years and similarly in Europe for six years. He has also worked and traveled in Asia. He was a US Air Force Attaché in the Middle East, served in Iraq and holds advanced degrees in International Relations and Strategic Intelligence. After retiring from the USAF, he worked as a contractor in variety of positions including for the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict (ASD-SOLIC) Combatting Terrorism Technical Support Office (CTTSO) and managed a US forward based missile defense radar in the Middle East. He researches authoritarian and totalitarian regimes that threaten the US, including examining strategies and policies to understand and respond to China, Russia, and Iran.
He was selected as a JPC Fellow in 2021. Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs selected him as a Taiwan Fellow in 2022. In 2023, he was a visiting scholar at National Chengchi University and Taiwan’s National Defense University in 2023, and is a visiting researcher at the Institute for National Defense and Security Research in 2024.
China’s “Pro-Palestine” Diplomacy
The four Abraham Accord countries (UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan) normalized relations with Israel during the Trump administration. All four were represented at the OIC summits and voted in favor of the OIC resolutions. Iran, Qatar, and Turkey are ardent supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Islamic revolution. Their goal for Israel’s destruction is […]
China Has Ties to and Supports Hamas: Here Is the Proof
Most people realize that the Islamic Republic of Iran provides money, equipment, training, intelligence, and diplomatic support to Gaza terror groups, as well as to Hezbollah, the Houthis, and other malicious actors. However, people rarely understand that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) also supports terror groups — including Hamas. Hamas emerged in 1987 during […]
A Clarion Call: Taiwan and the US Need to Do More
On 2 September, Elbridge Colby, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development, wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal called “The U.S. and Taiwan Must Change Course” that defends his position that the US and Taiwan are not doing enough to deter the People’s Republic of China (PRC) from taking […]
