The Russian assault on the Republic of Georgia, which had been weeks if not months in planning, surprised no one but Western leaders. Ambassador David Smith of the Tbilisi office of the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies briefed members of JINSA’s Boards of Directors and Advisors as well as a select group of lay leaders via conference call on August 15.

Col. TX Hammes, USMC (ret.), author of The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century and an expert on insurgent warfare spoke to a group of JINSA members and supporters in Washington, DC on June 16, 2008.

On June 18, Dr. Liam Fox, the Shadow Defence Secretary of the British government, addressed an audience more than 100 JINSA members and supporters at the University Club in New York City.

Dr. Matthias Kuentzel, author of Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11 (Telos Press Publishing, 2007), traces the origins of the virulent anti-Semitism that permeates Jihadi Islam not to the Koran but to Nazism. Kuentzel, a member of Germany's Green Party and a Research Associate at the Sassoon Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism at Hebrew University, addressed a group of 60 JINSA members and supporters at a Europe Project Forum on March 19 in Washington, DC.

In Europe Project Paper #10, JINSA Research Associate Stoyan Stoyanov analyzes the European Union's European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) and its implications for NATO and transatlantic relations.

JINSA presented its first Global Leadership Award to former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar on February 12, 2007. The new award recognizes those leaders on the international stage whose life work embodies the principles that are the foundation of JINSA's mission: robust security for America and its allies and partners around the globe.

That the UK had become, by 2000, the European center for the promotion, recruitment and financing of Islamic terror and extremism is not disputed. The debate over how this came to be is ongoing. A bold attempt to answer the question was made this past summer with the release of the groundbreaking book Londonistan by Melanie Phillips, an award-winning journalist at the UK’s Daily Mail. On January 16, Phillips spoke to an audience of more than 250 at a JINSA event in the Detroit suburb of West Bloomfield.