NDUF September 2020 Newsletter

National Defense University Foundation In Brief

September 2020

HEADLINES

National Defense University Foundation President and CEO, James Schmeling co-authors article with Atlantic Council's Dr. David Bray, Director, GeoTech Center and Commission

Join us for upcoming Webcasts with The Honorable Ray Mabus, LTG David Barno and Nora Bensahel, & General John William "Jay" Raymond

NDU's CSWMD 2020 Virtual Symposium a success- features Lt. Gen. Michael Minihan, Director Vayl Oxford & General John E. Hyten

NDUF’s Virtual National Security Briefing recordings in high demand – See What You Missed. Past participants include Asst Secretary of Labor Lowry, author Christian Brose, Dr. Kyleanne Hunter & Dr. Jeannette Haynie of the Athena Leadership Project, The Honorable Robert Work, Chairman, Govini, & CEO Tara Murphy Dougherty, & Dr. David Bray, Director, GeoTech Center, Atlantic Council

HOT ARTICLES

Atlantic Council's GeoTech Center Director, Dr. David Bray: "Open societies must create a grand strategy framework for data, sensemaking, and trust"; co-authored by National Defense University Foundation President & CEO, James Schmeling

NDU's Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS): "China's 'New-Type' Private Think Tanks: Is "New" Better?" by Joel Withnow, Senior Research Fellow, and Dingding Chen, Professor of International Relations at Jinan University

"Stovepipes in space: How the US can overcome bureaucracy to improve capabilities" by Robert O. Work and Dennis Blair.

"The Micromanagement Myth and Mission Command: Making the Case for Oversight of Military Operations" by Dr. Chris Lamb, Distinguished Research Fellow in the Center for Strategic Research

NDU PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS

"Crafting Strategy for Irregular Warfare: A Framework for Analysis and Action" By David H. Ucko and Thomas A. Marks, Strategic Monograph

Find out about “Accelerating Military Innovation” and the "Paradox of Campaigning in Long Wars” in Joint Force Quarterly 3Q2020 - The Psychology of Jointness - Download Full PDF →

"Latin America 2020: Challenges to U.S. National Security Interests" By Craig A. Deare, Strategic Monograph

NDUF Recognition of College of Information and CyberSpace (CIC) Contribution

Special thanks to Dr. Cassandra Lewis, Dr. Roxanne Everetts, and US Navy Captain Daryk Zirkle for their contributions to “Open Societies Must Create a Grand Strategy Framework for Data, Sensemaking, and Trust." Learn more about NDU's CIC

HEADLINE DETAILS

7/15/2020 - Connecting Military Service and Workforce Preparedness for the National Security and Defense Sectors. COL. John Lowry, Assistant Secretary for Veterans’ Employment & Training Services with the U.S. DOL, discussed the link between military service, veterans, & post service careers in relation to workforce preparedness.

7/28/2020 - The Kill Chain – Understand, Decide, Act: How America Must Prepare for Strategic Competition with Peer and Near-Peer Rivals with Christian Brose. Brose, Chief Strategy Officer for Anduril & author of The Kill Chain discussed ideas that would increase U.S. military advantages in the future & noted the erosion of America’s traditional sources of power, amid the development of new technologies & emerging military threats by adversaries- namely China.

8/11/2020 - Security Through a Gender Lens, The Women, Peace, and Security Act and Why It Matters for National Security Dr. Kyleanne Hunter, Managing Director at Athena Leadership Project & Dr. Jeannette Hunter, Executive Director at Athena Leadership Project, offered their insight as former Marines officers & discussed the strategic value of an inclusive gender perspective in national security.

9/1/2020 - Digitizing the Business of Defense The Honorable Robert Work, Govini's Chairman & Tara Murphy Dougherty, CEO discussed the implications of decision data in national security. Secretary Work summarized the topic succinctly, stating it’s the, “human-machine collaboration backstopped by decision-quality data that is going to make the difference in warfare in the future, and if we can’t get that right…then quite frankly, we’ll lose the [Great Power] Competition.”

9/15/20- Open Societies Must Create A Grand Strategy Framework for Data

By Dr. David Bray & co-author James Schmeling explore changes in new technologies, improvements in data capabilities & changes in geopolitics globally that necessitate the crafting of a new grand strategy to address these challenges.

9/17/2020 - Data,Sense Making, and Trust: The Three Pillars at Risk and Impacts to National Security with Dr. David Bray, Director, GeoTech Center & Commission, Atlantic Council, discussed the growing threat of weaponized data, stating, “data and tech are having pervasive impacts on how we do the business of peace."

NDU Foundation Virtual National Security Briefings are made possible through our partners Leidos and ViON

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

9/30/2020 at 1:00 p.m. EDT | Climate Change and Renewable Energy - Present and Future Implications for National Security

Secretary Ray Mabus served as the 75th United States Secretary of the Navy from 2009 to 2017, the longest tenure as leader of the Navy and Marine Corps since World War I. In addition to serving on the Boards of Dana Incorporated and Hilton Worldwide, Secretary Mabus is a senior advisor to Google Ventures and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was the Governor of Mississippi and United States Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Notably, Secretary Mabus is the only Naval veteran and Harvard Law School graduate to have thrown out the first pitch at all 30 major league ballparks.

10/15/2020 at 1:00 p.m. EDT | Adaptation under Fire: How Militaries Change in Wartime (Bridging the Gap)

LTG David Barno (Ret.) USA - Visiting Professor of Strategic Studies, John Hopkins School of International Studies
Nora Bensahel - Visiting Professor of Strategic Studies, John Hopkins School of International Studies
Order their new book “Adaptation under Fire: How Militaries Change in Wartime (Bridging the Gap)” on Amazon Smile here and help NDUF

Scheduled:

10/27/2020 at 10:30 am

General John William "Jay" Raymond serves as the United States Space Force's first Chief of Space Operations and is a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He previously concurrently served as the commander of United States Space Command (USSPACECOM) from December 20, 2019 to August 20, 2020.

“All questions of government ultimately come down to 'who decides?' Closed societies make this choice for their citizens. Open societies argue about it endlessly, but that's the point."

– Captain Daryk Zirkle (USN) Dean of Students and Sea Services Chair, College of Information and Cyberspace (CIC). National Defense University, Fort McNair Washington, D.C.

NDU Special Collections Archive

Special thanks to NDU Special Collections Librarian, Susan Lemke, for providing a picture from their archives of Admiral Harry Wilbur Hill, who established National Defense University’s National War College and served as its first Commandant in October 1945.

Learn more about Admiral Hill's instrumental role in the creation of National War College.

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