<p>KT McFarland is one of the country’s best known foreign policy experts and a key architect of conservative national security strategy.</p><p>As President Trump’s Deputy National Security Advisor in his first term, she played a pivotal role in shaping the "America First" and "Peace through Strength" doctrines.</p><p>KT has been a media commentator for decades, appearing on Fox News, Fox Business News, Newsmax, and other national and international news programs. She appears frequently on podcasts, documentaries and radio. A bestselling author, her book <em>Revolution: Trump, Washington, and “We the People”</em> offers profound insights into the Trump presidency, U.S.- China and Russia relations, and American exceptionalism.</p><p>KT’s career spans five decades, beginning as a White House aide to Dr. Henry Kissinger in the Nixon and Ford Administrations and culminating at the National Security Council with President Trump. She served in the Pentagon as a senior speechwriter, press spokesperson, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Administration. Her notable achievements include drafting the Weinberger Doctrine and contributing to President Reagan’s iconic "Star Wars" speech. For her service, she received the Defense Department's highest civilian honor, the Distinguished Service Award.</p><p>In 2006, she ran for U.S. Senate in New York, and in 2015, she was named Woman of the Year by the Clare Boothe Luce Center for Conservative Women. She has long served on the board of the American Conservative Union Foundation (CPAC).</p><p>KT holds a B.A. in Chinese Studies from George Washington University, an M.A. in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics from Oxford, and completed Ph.D. coursework at MIT, focusing on nuclear weapons, China, and the Soviet Union. She and her husband, Alan McFarland, have been married for 40 years, with five children and ten grandchildren.</p>
Former Deputy National Security Advisor; Geopolitics Expert
<ul><li><strong>Around the World with KT McFarland: Today’s Threats and Tomorrow’s Opportunities</strong></li><li>As one of America’s most insightful foreign policy voices, KT McFarland continues to be a go-to national security expert for major news networks, especially FOX News, and is a bestselling author. She argues that the world is once again at a defining inflection point, shaped by escalating U.S.–China tensions, Russia’s ongoing confrontations with the West, wars in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, strained global supply chains, and the weakening of long-standing security alliances. She also examines growing instability in the Western Hemisphere, including the U.S.–Venezuela standoff, rising authoritarian influence in Latin America, and the region’s expanding ties to China, Russia, and Iran—developments that carry serious implications for U.S. security and economic interests. McFarland explores urgent questions: Are we entering a new era of great-power rivalry? Can China overtake the U.S. in technology, trade, and military power? How will cyberwarfare, AI competition, space security, and energy disruptions define future conflict? And what opportunities can America seize amid this turmoil? </li><li>With senior national security roles in four presidential administrations—Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Trump—McFarland brings unmatched historical depth and insider perspective to the forces reshaping today’s world and the challenges ahead</li></ul>