The event addressed current challenges with diversity in U.S. national security, outlining specific ways to ensure greater women’s representation in civilian and military leadership positions.
A livestream discussion with Peter L. Bergen and Daniel Rothenberg, Center Co-Directors, moderated by Prof. Souad Ali. The event focused on COVID-19 as a ‘hinge event’ in American history, like the Great Depression or 9/11, engaging how the pandemic reveals major structural weaknesses in American society and undermines already fraying trust in the capacity of the US government to respond effectively to core security challenges, suggesting a need to shift the language of security from a defense model to one of resilience.
A livestream discussion with James O’Donnell, ASU University Librarian and former Provost and University Professor at Georgetown University, who will discuss his book The War for Gaul: A New Translation (Princeton 2019).
The conversation was guided by LtGen (ret) Robert Schmidle, ASU Professor of Practice, the first Deputy Commander of U.S. Cyber Command, and a combat pilot with over 4,700 hours logged in tactical fighters. O’Donnell and Schmidle discussed the value of reading Julius Caesar’s ideas on strategy, politics, and conflict in the 21st century.
When Russia's "little green men" appeared at key points across Crimea in late-February 2014, it was the first time many people in Europe and the United States realized Russia was moving to seize the peninsula. In fact, this was the culmination of many months of preparation and a carefully calibrated strategy designed to seize Crimea without provoking a US or NATO response. Dr.
The COVID-19 pandemic, worldwide protests in the wake of George Floyd's murder and deepening anxieties about domestic stability in the lead up to the 2020 U.S. presidential elections have brought into focus the unprecedented challenges posed by digital disruption and the global rise of authoritarianism.
Peter Singer is a professor of practice at Arizona State University and strategist and senior fellow at New America. At this event he discussed his recent book, “Burn-In” with Dr. Jeffery Kubiak, co-director of the Masters in Global Security program in the School of Politics and Global Studies at ASU.
Peter Bergen is the author of six books, three of which were New York Times bestsellers and four of which were named among the non-fiction books of the year by the Washington Post. Bergen is a Professor of Practice at the School of Politics and Global Studies at ASU, Co-Director of the Center on the Future of War, Vice President for Global Studies and Fellows at New America and a CNN national security analyst.
In The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West, Kilcullen asks how, and what, opponents of the West have learned during the last quarter-century of conflict. Applying a combination of evolutionary theory and detailed field observation, he explains what happened to the “snakes”-non-state threats including terrorists and guerrillas- and the “dragons”-state-based competitors such as Russia and China.
This half-day event brought together thought leaders engaged with moral injury and the profound impact of the lived experience of war. The event included academics, military leaders, veterans, journalists and clinicians to explore the value of humanities (philosophy, history, poetry, and literature) as the basis for dialogues exploring the moral, psychological, and spiritual effects of war on the warrior as she or he returns home.
The event is co-sponsored by the Center on the Future of War, that links Arizona State University and New America.
In 2011, the Obama administration withdrew American forces from Iraq, celebrating the withdrawal as the end of the war. Fewer than three years later the same administration returned the U.S. military to Iraq to wage war on ISIS and then extended the war into Syria.