In this special episode, we sat down with John Mills—retired colonel, former director of cybersecurity at the Defense Department, senior fellow with the Center for Security Policy, and part of the Spectrum Consulting Group. We also hear from Casey Fleming, CEO of BlackOps Partners. They talk about the growing importance of the cyber realm in modern warfare, what China might be learning from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and what this means for Taiwan and the United States going forward.
On the China threat, Mills said Americans “need to put this … at the front of their daily thought. This is a battle. It is a daily battle. Everything going around, most Americans are just trying to live their lives, go to church, take care of their families, provide for their families. But you got to realize almost every American knows somebody who has been affected by the opioid threat. Okay, where’s that opioid threat coming from? It’s coming from China. Fentanyl is almost 100 percent a product from the CCP. Almost every American knows somebody in the bondage of opioid addiction. Right there. We are on the frontline, the American citizen is on the front line against the struggle against China, just by us having to face the opioid threat.”
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