2023 Speakers

How can AI be integrated with wargaming? What are the opportunities for national security and defense? What are the technological and ethical challenges?

Europe was the principal battleground of the Cold War. Theater nuclear forces trained on targets across the continent, both east and west—the Euromissiles—highlighted how the peoples of Europe were dangerously placed between hammer and anvil.

The Secretary of Defense directed a comprehensive, first-ever Biodefense Posture Review to ensure the Department is prepared to operate in a biological threat environment and to support the national biodefense enterprise, at home and abroad.

The Secretary of Defense directed a comprehensive, first-ever Biodefense Posture Review to ensure the Department is prepared to operate in a biological threat environment and to support the national biodefense enterprise, at home and abroad.

This lecture is an introduction to US nuclear policy. It begins with a description of the processes by which nuclear policy is made and implemented, including the nuclear posture reviews conducted by each new administration.

This lecture is an introduction to US nuclear policy. It begins with a description of the processes by which nuclear policy is made and implemented, including the nuclear posture reviews conducted by each new administration.

The Commission was chartered by the Congress "to conduct a review of the strategic posture of the United States, including a strategic threat assessment and a detailed review of nuclear weapons policy, strategy, and force structure and factors affecting the strategic stability of near-peer competitors of the United States."

Sebastian Bae will provide a brief overview of professional wargaming and its applications.

This new RAND report presents a framework on the nature and requirements of deterrence in space operations.

The possibility of an altered photo revising history in a convincing way highlights a salient threat of imaging technology. Afterall, seeing is believing. Or is it?

We are entering a decade of science and technology-driven change like never before in history. This is the 4th Industrial Revolution as espoused by the World Economic Forum (Davos), and an additional ten change waves that drive an intense and prolonged cycle of creative destruction.

In his remarks, Dr. Ford will summarize and build upon his paper published by CGSR in December 2022 in offering an explanation for how the Chinese Communist Party's approach to information competition with the West fits into and derives from the Party's broader approach to political control.

Our adversaries have implemented approaches below the level of armed conflict that avoid deterrent tripwires; they aim to achieve strategic objectives and "win without fighting."

This talk will discuss the theory and practices of competitive strategies, as practiced by Britain against Imperial Germany in the early 20th century and the United States against the Soviet Union during the Cold War, with implications for competition with China and Russia today.

The United States is undertaking an extensive modernization campaign to ensure its nuclear weapons can deliver the deterrence mission for decades to come.

In the intensifying competition between the United States and China for global supremacy, the ability to harness the complex interlinkages between economic development, national security, and technological innovation is at the center of this great power struggle.

Why do states rarely change how they think about the utility of their nuclear weapons?

Why is biotechnology a national security issue and increasingly at the center of policy discussions about competition?

With China's emergence as a peer nuclear power to the United States and Russia, nuclear bipolarity is being supplanted by a tripolar nuclear order.

Who did it first? Which country innovated it first? Presented with technical breakthroughs that inspire astonishment, it is only natural to gravitate toward the moment of initial discovery.

Chris Inglis will describe the rationale underpinning the March 2023 U.S. National Cybersecurity strategy.

The United Kingdom's 2021 Integrated Review foreshadowed the global turbulence of the last two years.

The Russian War on Ukraine: Update and Outcomes. Russia's aggression against Ukraine, an attempt to eliminate Ukraine as a sovereign nation, has gone on 15 months.

China's Law of the Sea provides a rigorous empirical account of whether and how China is changing "the rules" of international order—specifically, the international law of the sea.

In Transforming Nuclear Safeguards Culture, Trevor Findlay investigates the role that organizational culture may play in preventing the spread of nuclear weapons.

This brief will focus on several inter-related areas pertaining to the dynamic landscape of emerging technologies, and national level trends.

This brief will focus on several inter-related areas pertaining to the dynamic landscape of emerging technologies, and national level trends.

Will Russia's invasion of Ukraine—a country that gave up the nuclear weapons it had inherited from the Soviet Union in exchange for security assurances—lead to a new wave of nuclear proliferation?

Since the beginning of the Syrian chemical weapons crisis in 2013, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has undertaken unprecedented efforts to investigate and attribute responsibility for chemical weapons use in Syria.

Revelations of summer 2021 about China's rapid expansion of its nuclear force brought into focus an emerging problem for US nuclear deterrence strategy.

Prof. Hecker will discuss his new book, Hinge Points: An Inside Look at North Korea's Nuclear Program.

The development and fielding of air and missile defense efforts for Guam represents the signature provision of the Biden administration's 2022 Missile Defense Review. It will also be one of the most difficult and expensive.

To date, American grand strategy has centered on a network of alliances to provide for security and stability through extended deterrence.

In December 2022, the Japanese government released the National Security Strategy, National Defense Strategy, and Defense Force Development Plan.

While U.S. and European policymakers frequently blame Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 for the current European energy crisis, in reality, the crisis emerged due to European policies.

The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic and Russian invasion of Ukraine highlight the vulnerabilities of supply chains that lack diversity and are dependent on foreign inputs.

The collapse of the Soviet Union, a nuclear superpower, cast a shadow of ambiguity over the fate of the world's largest nuclear arsenal.

Why did the United States and the Soviet Union work together to finalize the 1968 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of nuclear weapons? While most explanations attribute the making of a global nuclear nonproliferation regime to the rationalization of the superpower arms race after the Cuban Missile Crisis or rank U.S. domination.

Strategic Stability at the trijunction of China- India- Pakistan remains in a tenuous state where strategic risks in the nuclear triangle are increasing.

What has the past year revealed about Vladimir Putin's frame of mind, how Russia is ruled, and the Kremlin's long-term trajectory on the global stage?

The Biden Administration's Nuclear Posture Review and Missile Defense Review are drawing close attention from Chinese policymakers and strategists. These documents advance "a strategy focused on the People's Republic of China" and call for the United States to "act urgently to sustain and strengthen U.S. deterrence."