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.
Houthi’s War with Israel: China’s Insidious Role
This article explains why and how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is assisting the Houthi terrorists in Yemen against the US, Israel, Europe, and world trade. Three Wars Strategy The Three Wars Strategy (TWS) is different from the 2003 People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) Three Warfares (lawfare, media warfare, and psychological warfare). Beginning in 2018, Long […]
Implications of PLA soldiers fighting for Russia in Ukraine
There is much evidence that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is sending soldiers from the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — and is learning lessons for a future war against Taiwan. Until now, the CCP has claimed that they have not sent PLA personnel to support Russian aggression. On 18 […]
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 […]
