On Thursday, Iran shot down a U.S. drone in their country’s territory. Seth G. Jones holds the Harold Brown Chair, is director of the Transnational Threats Project, and is a senior adviser to the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. Center for Strategic and International Studies. Earlier Thursday, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper warned that the United States might take preemptive military action if it received warning that Iran or its proxy forces were planning further strikes on U.S. interests in the Middle East.“We’re prepared to do what is necessary to defend our personnel and our interests and our partners in the region,” Esper told reporters at the Pentagon. On Thursday, Iran shot down a U.S. drone in their country's territory. Iran has constructed more sophisticated and longer-range ballistic and cruise missiles and conducted missile attacks against countries like Saudi Arabia. He also imposed tough new sanctions on Iran that have devastated its economy. That Suleimani is dead, and we killed him, shows that we can still deliver condign punishment. General Soleimani and his Quds Force were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American and coalition service members and the wounding of thousands more.” But some experts suggested that what had been, until now, a low-level war between the United States and Iran could soon explode. Prior to joining CSIS, Dr. Jones was the director of the International Security and Defense Policy Center, and senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation, where he worked … He teaches at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and the Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS) at the U.S. He also determined that the United States should encourage a “diplomatic reconciliation” with the Taliban. Members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp (IRGC) march during a military parade to commemorate the 1980–88 Iran-Iraq war in Tehran, Iran on September 22, 2007. Seth Jones has previously advised numerous commanding officers of U.S. Special Operations Command and others at the Department of Defense, giving him a unique insight into how operational planning takes place on the front lines.Registration & check-in will begin at 11:30 am, and speaker remarks and lunch will begin at 12:00 pm.The World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh’s mission is to provide a pathway for a more globally minded region, offering students and the community a learning space that covers key international issues. The Defense Department said in a statement that Suleimani was targeted in part because he “orchestrated attacks on coalition bases in Iraq over the last several months,” including the one that cost the life of the contractor, and that he had “also approved the attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad that took place this week.”“At the direction of the President, the U.S. military has taken decisive defensive action to protect U.S. personnel abroad by killing Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force, a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization,” the Pentagon statement said.The statement said that Suleimani “was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region.
Trump has, until now, signaled his willingness to negotiate with Tehran and has been restrained in his use of military force.Some U.S. officials noted that Suleimani had increasingly adopted an attitude of invulnerability to U.S. retaliation, and Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei had only days ago taunted Trump by saying, “You can’t do anything.”Report says it is not clear that Tehran orchestrated an attack on Saudi oil facilities.Gen. Their RAND book On March 21, 2017, Seth G. Jones outlined an Afghanistan foreign policy strategy for the new Trump administration, in the article, “How Trump Should Manage Afghanistan: A Realistic Set of Goals for the New Administration.” (Jones) Jones describes that the current administration faces major issues in Afghanistan.