Past SERIES

Video, audio, presentation, and bulletized note files are available for all Rethinking Seminars beginning wiht the 2005-2006 Series.  No recordings were made during the first series but bulletized notes and some presentation materials are available for those seminars.

 

2008-2009

     
Mr. Robert Work VP, CSBA The Next QDR   15-Oct
Dr. Robert Art Dir, MIT Seminar XXI  National Interests & Grand Strategy 24-Nov
Mr. James Rickards Dir, Market Intelligence, Omnis  Financial Threats to Security  17-Dec
Mr. Paul Goble Institute of World Politics Russian Federation 12-Jan
Dr. George Friedman CEO, STRATFOR 21stC Geopolitical Environment 3-Feb
Mr. James Gosler Sandia National Lab Cyber Threats 4-Mar
Dr. Geoffrey Dabelko Woodrow Wilson Center Climate Change & Security 29-Apr
Dr. Lewis A. Dunn Vice President, SAIC 21stC Nuclear Deterrence 20-May
Dr. Andrew Krepinevich President, CSBA 21stC Force Posture 7-Jul
Dr. Stephen Walt Kennedy School of Government Rethinking US Grand Strategy  17-Aug
Dr. Barry Posen  Dir, MIT Security Studies

US Grand Strategy

8-Sep

 

 

2007-2008

     
Mr. David F. Davis POPP, George Mason University UN -- Past, Present, and Future 30-Jun
MS Michèle Flournoy Center for a New American Security Changing the Interagency  25-Feb
Dr. Mary Habeck  School of Advanced International Understanding Jihadist Ideology 24-Oct
Studies, JHU
Dr. Nate Lewis  CALTECH Powering the Planet 16-Nov
Mr. John McLaughlin School of Advanced International Future Challenges for American Intelligence 14-Aug
Studies, JHU
Dr. James L. Narel POPP, George Mason University NGOs and their Relationships 16-Jul
Mr. Andrew S. Natsios Georgetown University USAID and National Power 10-Sep
Dr. Keith Payne National Institute for Public Policy The Future Of Deterrence And Dissuasion 18-Mar
Mr. Joe Purser  USJFCOM, Deep Futures Joint Operational Environment 9-Jan
Mr. John Rendon  CEO Rendon Group Strategic Communications 14-Dec
Mr. Michael L. Smith State Department Peace and Stability Operations 30-Apr
Dr. E. Sherwood-Randall CISAC, Stanford University NATO Alliance: Current Issues & Future Challenges 21--May

 

 

2006 - 2007

     
Mr. Stephen Carmel Sr VP, Maersk Line, Limited Globalization and Transportation 22-Aug
Dr. Richard Cooper  Harvard University Economics and National Security 24-May
Dr. Benjamin Friedman Author Consequences of Economic Growth 16-May
Dr. George Friedman CEO, STRATFOR Global Geopolitical Future Issues 17-Jul
Amb Robert Gallucci Georgetown University Nuclear Security Issues 25-Oct
Mr. Joshua Kurlantzick Author Crude Awakening: The Coming Resource War 20-Nov
Dr. David Lampton Dir, China Studies, Nixon Center China and Its Power 5-Sep
Dr. Robert Legvold Professor of Political Science, Russia, Energy, Foreign Policy 21-Jun
Columbia Univ
Dr. Richard Lindzen Professor of Meteorology, MIT Questioning Global Warming Theories 26-Mar
Mr. Walter Russell Mead Council on Foreign Relations 400 Years of a Great Power System 10-Sep
Dr. Tara O'Toole Center for Biosecurity, Biosecurity Issues 24-Jan
Univ of Pittsburgh Medical Ctr
Dr. Barry Posen Dir, Security Studies, MIT Drivers of Grand Strategy 17-Apr
Dr. Adam Segal China Studies, Challenges of Globalization 22-Feb
Council on Foreign Relations

 

 

2005 - 2006

     
Dr. Thomas Barnett  Author The Pentagon's New Map and 2-Nov
Blueprint for Action
Dr. Stephen Biddle Council on Foreign Relations Seeing Baghdad, Thinking Saigon 1-May
Mr. Max Boot Author War Made New: Technology, Warfare, 26-Sep
&  History, 1500 to Today
Mr. Christopher Coker  Author The Future of War  24-May
BG Victor N. Corpus Armed Forces of the American Crossroads: options for US 29-Nov
Philippines ret as the only superpower
Mr. Nathaniel Fick Author One Bullet Away: Making of a 25-Jan
Marine Corps Officer
Professor Haim Harari  Author A View from the Eye of the Storm  22-Jun
Mr. Robert Kaplan  Atlantic Monthly How Competition & Conflict Are Changing 13-Oct
Dr. Amory Lovins Author Winning the Oil Endgame and 23-Feb
Natural Capitalism
LTC John Nagl  Author Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: 1-Aug
Counterinsurgency Lessons
Dr. Robert Pape  Author Dying to Win: Strategic Logic of 30-Mar
Suicide Terrorism
Dr. Marc Sageman Author Global Salafi Terrorist Networks 15-Aug
Mr. Peter Schwartz  Author Inevitable Surprises 8-Mar
Mr. Frank Verrastro & CSIS Energy Program CSIS Energy Program 28-Jul
Mr. Alan Hegburg 
MS Theresa Whelan Dep Asst SecDef for African Affairs  Africa's Ungoverned Space: 19-Dec
New Threat Paradigm

 

 

2004-2005 (Notes only / No videos)

   
Dr. John Alexander Author Future Conflict / Implications Of 13-Apr
Non-lethal Weapons 
Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski  School of Advanced International Threats, Dangers, and Uncertainties  12-Oct
Studies, JHU
Dr. James Carafano, LTC, USA, ret   Heritage Foundation The Changing Nature of War 13-Apr
VADM Arthur K. Cebrowski, USN ret Dir, Office of Force Transformation Overview of Principles of War Seminar Series 8-Jun
MGen James M. Dubik, USA  Director, Joint Experimentation Military View of Future Conflict 30-Jun
Admiral Sir Ian Forbes, UK Royal Navy Deputy Supreme Allied Military View of Future Conflict 30-Jun
Commander, NATO
Dr. George Friedman Chairman, STRATFOR  Intel And Knowledge (Actionable Knowledge) 20-Jul
Prof Colin S. Gray  Author and political scientist What Do We Know About Future Warfare? 15-Mar
General James L. Jones  Supreme Allied Commander, Security, Stability & Reconstruction in the 22-Nov
Europe Principles of Warfare 
General John Keane, USA  Ret President GSI, LLC Current & Potential Operational Art & the 6-Jan
Principles of War
VADM Timothy J. Keating, Director, Joint Staff Rethinking the Principles of War Imperative 8-Jun
Dr. Williamson Murray Institute for Defense Analyses Implications of the Future Military Environment  13-Apr
Mr. Ralph Peters, LTC, rt  Author Strategic Implications  13-Apr
Dr. Terry C. Pierce, CAPT, USN US Naval Postgraduate School  Strategic Implications  13-Apr
Dr. Angel Rabasa  RAND The Muslim World After 9/11 & the Iraq War  13-Apr
MGen Robert Scales,USA ret Author  Lessons from Two Iraq Wars 8-Jun
Dr. James Schneider  School of Advanced Military Studies The Changing Nature of War 13-Apr
Dr. Harlan Ullman  Vice President, CNA Corporation Defeating Global Terror in the 21st Century 9-Nov
Prof Martin van Creveld  Author and educator Technology and Future War 13-Sep
Dr. Michael Vlahos  Johns Hopkins University / APL “Non-State Actors” and Change 4-Feb
 in the Muslim World


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