David Wurmser

David Wurmser

David Wurmser is the Director of Middle East Studies and a Senior Scholar at the Center for Security Policy, as well as a Fellow at the Misgav Institute for National Security and  Zionist Strategy. David has served as Middle East Advisor to Former Vice President Dick Cheney and as Special Assistant to Former National Security Advisor and UN Ambassador John Bolton. He also served in the US Navy Reserve as an intelligence officer at the rank of Lieutenant Commander. David is also the Founder of the Delphi Global Analysis Group.

 

Immediately following the 9/11 attacks, Dr. Wurmser consulted until January 2002 for the Office of the Secretary of Defense in the U.S. Department of Defense on a war‐related classified project on understanding the nature and strategic significance of terrorist group networks and their interactions with states. Before entering government, Dr. Wurmser founded the Middle East studies program at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in 1996. While at AEI Dr. Wurmser published the book, “ Tyranny’s Ally: America’s Failure to Defeat Saddam Hussein.”

David received his Bachelor’s degree, his  M.A., as well as his Ph.D from the Johns Hopkins University. In addition to his book, he has also been published in The Wall Stret Journal, The Financial Times and Commentary Magazine.

Webinars from this speaker

Today

  • A Failure to Learn from Past Mistakes: The State Department’s Continuous Insistence on a Palestinian State

    https://youtu.be/DT2AEfEDLSg     As this is being written, the State Department is busy submitting plans for a Palestinian State, to be erected after the war. National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan has spoken about a contiguous Palestinian state, stretching from Gaza through Judea and Samaria, (the West Bank). He has also spoken about a “revamped and […]

  • The Tectonic Shifts in the Middle East As President Trump Assumes Power

    https://youtu.be/WgXV8NSK8Sc?si=dWL2N4kJB9cxpZbv   The transcript will be available here As the forces of the IDF have decisively crippled Hezbollah in Lebanon, and as Damascus falls from the Iranian-backed regime of Bashar al-Assad to the Turkish-backed forces of Mohammad al-Jolani, with his background in Jabhat al-Nusra, (Al Qaeda in the Levant) and ISIS, how will Iran respond? […]

  • Re-conquering Gaza–What is at Stake, Here?

    https://youtu.be/fQDMdt1cx-k?si=Lxd0a1Fae0j893IT     The transcript will be available here As I write these words, the Israeli Cabinet has just convened and has decided to reoccupy Gaza. This is after 22 months of heartbreaking war, where the double objectives have been the dismantling of Hamas and the rescuing of the hostages. What has happened to create […]

  • As We Approach Phase Two of President Trump’s Plan, What is in Store for Israel and the Middle East?

    https://youtu.be/82iq7CGyasY?si=H9Xz8xGGMYgIeDV2   The transcript will be available here   As we approach phase two of President Trump’s Plan, does Hamas have any plans to disarm, which is one of the President’s conditions for proceeding further? Looking north, will President Joseph Aoun, as promised to dismantle the Hezbollah infrastructure? What is happening with Egypt’s commitments made […]

  • Israel 2048: A Blueprint for a Rising Asymmetric Geopolitical Power

    https://youtu.be/f9twji21j14?si=UzxREi_HsI7OAk6M The transcript will be available here.    What does the state of Israel require to survive? In previous decades, the Israeli national security and defense establishments had assumed that status quo management was all that it took. Post October 7th, 2023,  we have come to realize that defensive restraint and geostrategic risk no longer […]