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Ask Live Questions Here The event will be webcast live from this page. Please join us on Wednesday, May 12 at 10:00 am ET for a conversation on the FY 2022 defense budget request. Todd Harrison, director of Defense Budget Analysis at CSIS, will moderate a discussion on the forthcoming defense budget with Rep. Anthony Brown (D-MD) of the House Armed Services Committee, Eric

The Issue For too long, U.S. foreign policy has been reactive to violent conflict, deploying troops and civilians at great cost. It is time to refocus on preventing violent conflict and mitigating the adverse effects of fragility. Failure to do so could result in an even more chaotic world and hamper the Biden administrations priorities of renewing democracy, managing the relationship with China and other geostrategic competitors, and addressing climate change. The Global Fragility Act (GFA) is...

Friday, May 7, 2021 1:00 pm - 1:45 pm Please join CSIS and the U.S. Naval Institute for a Maritime Security Dialogue event featuring Rear Admiral Douglas Small, Commander, Naval Information Warfare Systems Command. RADM Small and Dr. Seth Jones, Senior Vice President and Director of the International Security Program, will discuss steps the Navy is taking to implement Project Overmatch, the Navy’s Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) implementation program. The Maritime Security Dia...

Michael McDowell Fellow, International Security Program Michael H.C. McDowell is a Fellow in New Americas International Security Program, focusing on the alarmingly high death rate and critical injury toll on soldiers, Marines, airmen and women, and Navy personnel, in military tactical vehicle "rollovers"-- Humvees, Light Armored Vehicles, Bradley Fighting Vehicles, heavy troop trucks, dune-buggy-like MRZRs, etc. The fatalities, all in training, on these "vics," now exceed deaths in combat. Eac...

Wednesday, May 5, 2021 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm This conversation was taped on April 21, 2021. Please join the CSIS Defending Democratic Institutions Project (DDI), in partnership with the Yale University Womens Organization (YUWO) and the CSIS Smart Women, Smart Power Initiative (SWSP), for a conversation with House Appropriations Committee Chair, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, on the importance of civic education as a national security imperative. This event is part of the "Civics as a National ...

​The deterrent capacity of a state’s nuclear forces depends upon the platforms and delivery systems that constitute the arsenal. Despite the importance of specific platforms for nuclear deterrence and coercion, however, most quantitative research on the effects of nuclear weapons typically evaluate the deterrent power of nuclear weapons by measuring whether a state possesses nuclear weapons or the number of warheads within a state’s nuclear arsenal. In this seminar based on work with co-a...

Friday, April 30, 2021 10:00 am - 11:00 am Africa’s growing space program presents new political, economic, and security opportunities and challenges for the United States. The technology transfer process, access to technologies and data, and support for systems development have the potential to increase U.S. political influence vis-à-vis U.S. adversaries; bolster two-way trade and investment; and deepen national security ties between the United States and African partners. Africa’s spac...

Dr. Thomas Karako is a senior fellow with the International Security Program and the director of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where he arrived in 2014. His research focuses on national security, missile defense, nuclear deterrence, and public law. For 2010–2011, he was an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow, working with the professional staff of the House Armed Services Committee and the Strategic Forces Sub...

The New York Times’  Helene Cooper. Through keynote and panel conversations, our speakers will examine President Biden’s efforts to modernize the U.S. military for the conflicts of tomorrow, address its biggest foreign policy challenges including China and Russia, craft a foreign policy for the middle class, and much more. About Our Speakers: Jake Sullivan, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Jake Sullivan is Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. Pr...

Wednesday, April 28, 2021 11:00 am - 11:45 am Please join the Center for Strategic and International Studies for a conversation with General Sir Nick Carter, Chief of the UK Defence Staff. General Sir Nick Carter and Dr. Seth Jones, Senior Vice President and Director of the International Security Program, will discuss the UK Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy, and how the UK military is prioritizing modernization. General Sir Nick Carter assumed the appointme...