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Army Chief of Staff General James McConville took part in a Center for Strategic and International Studies virtual discussion on strategy in the Indo-Pacific region. Topics included relation…

In recognition of International Women’s Day, the Center for Strategic and International Studies hosted a discussion with CIA Deputy Directors Dawn Meyerriecks, Betsy Davis, and Sonya Holt. M…

Military branch secretaries from Army, Navy and Air Force discussed department priorities. Topics included President Trump’s fiscal year 2021 defense budget request, autonomous vehicle techn…

Joint Chiefs of Staff Vice Chair General John Hyten talked about security challenges facing the United States. He discussed the Space Force, issues impacting the military, and China’s milita…

U.S. Space Commander General John Raymond discussed the priorities and current operations of the newly established unified command. He also discussed Space Command personnel training, streng…

House Armed Services Committee Chair Adam Smith (D-WA) spoke about the fiscal year 2020 Defense Department budget. He stressed the committee’s history of a bipartisan process regarding defen…

Deputy Defense Undersecretary for Policy David Trachtenberg and security experts discussed extended nuclear deterrence policy at an event hosted by the Brookings Institution. Speakers also a…

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) held a panel discussion to preview the Trump administration’s fiscal year 2020 defense budget request. Former Bush and Obama adminis…

The Army, Navy, and Air Force secretaries talked about defense spending. They spoke at length about how U.S. adversaries were adapting their war readiness strategies more quickly than the U.…

Senators Joni Ernst (R-IA) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) joined former Obama administration defense official Kathleen Hicks for a discussion on the U.S. role in the Middle East, focusing on Iran…

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine delivered keynote remarks at the Center for Strategic and International Studies to discuss the 60th anniversary of the nation’s space agency. He talked abo…

Kathleen Hicks, a former Defense Department official with the Obama Administration, was one of the featured speakers at the 2018 conference hosted by the Truman National Security Project and…

In this portion of a Center for Strategic and International Studies event on defense and national security oversight, House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Adam Smith (D-WA) talked a…

In this portion of a Center for Strategic and International Studies event on defense and national security oversight, former State and Defense Department officials joined U.S. Southern Comma…

The Center for Strategic and International Studies hosted a discussion with an all-woman panel of foreign ambassadors to the United States on their lives and careers, including the challenge…

Lawrence Freedman talked about his book, The Future of War, about the novelists, filmmakers, think tank experts, and academics who have helped people envision what wars in the future will lo…

Former George W. Bush and Obama administration officials testified at a hearing on the legal issues of congressional Authorizations for Use of Military Force (AUMF) overseas. The witnesses e…

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright talked about the importance of the U.S. remaining engaged in the global community. She cautioned Americans to reject the politics of fear saying …

Former federal officials testified on on the merits of civilian control of the U.S. military. The Senate Armed Services Committee held the hearing as Congress prepared to consider a waiver t…

Rosa Brooks talked about her book How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon, in which she examines the change in how America fights wars. She was …