Shane Healey and Grant Newsham on the Chris Smith Show - 1 August 2024

GUEST OVERVIEW: Shane Healey is a terrorism and youth justice expert. He's a former Australian Defence Force Special Operations Command intelligence operator, and private military contractor. Shane has been deployed twice to Afghanistan (2010/2011 and 2012) as part of Task Force 66 where he provided insurgent threat assessments. When in Australia he was part of the Tactical Assault Group – East and West where he was involved in several real time terrorist incidents.

GUEST OVERVIEW: Grant Newsham is the author of the recently published "When China Attacks: A Warning to America".

He is a retired US Marine officer with decades of experience in the Indo-Pacific – to include serving as reserve head of intelligence for Marine Forces Pacific. He was the first Marine advisor to the Japan Self Defense Force and helped create Japan’s amphibious force. Mr Newsham is also an attorney with experience in international trade and public international law.