A leading national security and Islamic law expert explains why America is losing to jihadists

Major Stephen Coughlin (Ret.), a decorated intelligence officer known as the Pentagon's leading expert on Islamic law has authored a forthcoming book, "Catastrophic Failure: Blindfolding America in the Face of the Jihad," that serves as a damning indictment of America's national security establishment's response to the global war being waged by Islamic supremacists, and provides a chilling message to the American people.

During our discussion, Coughlin goes into great depth on the thesis of his book, providing keen insights into the nature and doctrinal basis of the threat posed by Islamic supremacists, America's conscious purging of the very lexicon necessary to describe the nature of the threat on its own terms, and as a result of postmodernism, political correctness and the pervasiveness of what Coughlin describes as culturally Marxist narratives -- along with the gentle prodding of Muslim Brotherhood influences on our media and other core institutions -- the ignorance, incoherence and willful blindness of America's "stupid" national security establishment.

The end result that Coughlin sees is a completely compromised security situation in which America is able to win in military engagements, while completely losing -- to the degree to which it is even fighting -- on the ideological warfare battleground where the Muslim Brotherhood and its Western proxies devote a significant amount of their efforts.

This civilizational jihad effort, and Western ignorance of principles like jihad, abrogation and dawah, which Coughlin describes during our interview, evidences itself in everything from what Coughlin sees as the disastrous policy of Countering Violent Extremism (CVE), to the Fort Hood shooting, to Iranian nuclear negotiations, which we examine through the lens of the 7th century Treaty of Hudaybiyyah.

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