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Brig Gen (Ret) Mario Greco Presentation

Dr. Isaiah (Ike) Wilson III (Colonel, U.S. Army, Retired) is a professor of practice at ASU where he teaches courses in Great Power Competition for the MA in Global Security. He is an International Security Fellow with New America, a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and former President of Joint Special Operations University. He has multiple combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, extensive operational experience, and has published numerous books, chapters, essays, and articles.

Peter Warren Singer is Strategist at New America, a Professor of Practice at Arizona State University, and Founder & Managing Partner at Useful Fiction LLC, a company specializing in strategic narrative. He is also a noted keynote speaker, having delivered talks at venues that range from the White House to the Sydney Opera House.

When the Biden Administration released it’s National Security Strategy two years ago priorities outlined were organized around twin challenges: increasing geopolitical tensions, especially with China and Russia, and shared global problems around climate change, disease, terrorism, and economic inequality. The White House strategy assumed public consensus about the security threats the country faces.

This event was rescheduled from the original April 3, 2024 date.

Our current 20th century approach to confronting our adversaries – state and non-state – will continue to fall short, if not fail. This is due to cultural, political, and environmental forces that are rapidly altering the environment of global geopolitical competition and hence accelerating the evolution of compound security threats. Our adversaries at every level, subnational to nation state to regional, are exploiting this changed environment to present us with more dilemmas – radicalization, transnational crime, climate insecurity, forced population movements.