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Lectures of Opportunity

Lectures of Opportunity (LOOs) complements our educational curriculum and casts light on important national and international topics with relevant strategic and economic implications. They offer U.S. Naval War College (NWC) students, faculty, and staff an opportunity to learn more about relevant national and international socio-political subjects in informal discussions.

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About Lectures of Opportunity

These robust lectures instruct and inform our NWC community on a variety of topical subjects, allowing students, faculty, and staff to experience and discuss various viewpoints and opinions. These discussions can stimulate focused research and foster dialogue among specialists and laypersons alike, resulting in enhanced understanding and continued productive research and analysis. LOOs are offered throughout the year at the college in lecture-style settings.

Upcoming Event

Our LOOs address topics ranging from personal insights from military and civilian leaders, the global effects of climate change, ethics and morals in the military, and the international importance of new military technology.

Lectures of Opportunity: "The Role of Operational Energy in National Security"

Monday, February 24, 2025
12:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Rd, Newport, RI 02841

This LOO brings an exciting opportunity to engage with one of the foremost scholars in energy politics and international relations, Professor Brenda Shaffer of the Naval Postgraduate School.

Most Recent Events

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties in Wartime"

Monday, March 03, 2025
U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Rd, Newport, RI 02841

Our country has always been in dispute between national security and civil rights – more so during our Civil War. Here, Frank Williams discusses Abraham Lincoln’s handling of civil rights as well as how the country managed national security and civil rights following 9/11.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Writing for Publication"

Thursday, October 31, 2024
Hybrid Event

Lectures of Opportunity offers U.S. Naval War College (NWC) students, faculty, and staff an opportunity to learn more about national and international socio-political subjects that may be of relevance to the NWC community.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Operations Allies Refuge and Allies Welcome"

Thursday, October 31, 2024
U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Rd, Newport, RI 02841

Lectures of Opportunity offers U.S. Naval War College (NWC) students, faculty, and staff an opportunity to learn more about national and international socio-political subjects that may be of relevance to the NWC community.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Understanding Maritime Security"

Monday, October 28, 2024
Hybrid Event

Lectures of Opportunity offers U.S. Naval War College (NWC) students, faculty, and staff an opportunity to learn more about national and international socio-political subjects that may be of relevance to the NWC community.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Operational Contract Support to EUCOM and Ukraine"

Wednesday, May 01, 2024
U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

Mr. Gordon will be provide an overview on Operational Contract Support (OCS) with a special focus on EUCOM and Ukraine. He will discuss some of the current contracts and capabilities being provided to support Ukrainian operations, shortfalls, and future support to the Joint Force's efforts in that theater.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "The Complexity of Leadership"

Monday, April 29, 2024
U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

Lectures of Opportunity offers U.S. Naval War College (NWC) students, faculty, and staff an opportunity to learn more about national and international socio-political subjects that may be of relevance to the NWC community.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Wielding Influence in the Information Environment"

Wednesday, January 31, 2024
U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

Our military forces can deliver a missile into a garage window, yet routinely fail to deliver accurate and resounding messages to friends and foes alike. Automated tools can help in defending against malignant attempts to undermine the U.S. and its partners.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "WPS and the Interagency Part 1"

Wednesday, January 24, 2024
U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

This panel discussion will focus on what each panelist's agency is doing with respect to WPS, how it is implemented, why it is important, where there are opportunities for interagency cooperation/collaboration, among other WPS related topics.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "The Information War Fighting Function"

Tuesday, January 23, 2024
U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

Lectures of Opportunity offers U.S. Naval War College (NWC) students, faculty, and staff an opportunity to learn more about national and international socio-political subjects that may be of relevance to the NWC community.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "China’s Use of Military Power"

Wednesday, January 03, 2024
U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the largest military force in the world, with improved capabilities threatening United States military dominance.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "USCGC Healy’s Contribution to Arctic (Soft) Security"

Monday, December 18, 2023
Hybrid Event

The Coast Guard Cutter Healy (WAGB - 20) is United States' largest and most technologically advanced polar icebreaker. Healy is designed to conduct a wide range of research activities, providing more than 4,200 square feet of scientific laboratory space, numerous electronic sensor systems, oceanographic winches, and accommodations for up to 50 scientists.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "The War for Kindness: Building Resilience Teams"

Friday, November 17, 2023
U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

Lectures of Opportunity offers U.S. Naval War College (NWC) students, faculty, and staff an opportunity to learn more about national and international socio-political subjects that may be of relevance to the NWC community.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Geoengineering the Earth's Climate"

Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Virtual Event

The Combined Naval Address on Climate, Energy and Environment is a joint effort to share perspectives and enhance educational opportunities in the intersection of climate, energy and environment with national security.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "The Israel-Gaza War: A Strategic Overview"

Monday, October 23, 2023
U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

Professors Heidi Lane and Hayat Alvi will provide an overview of the background and current implications of the war between Israel and Hamas, as well as discussion about the strategic implications for the region.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Just War and Unjust Actors"

Thursday, October 19, 2023
U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

Just War Tradition provides a framework for evaluating the morality of armed conflict. It has been a guide for military practitioners and political decision-makers dating back to Cicero and Augustine.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "China and Strategic Competition: Some Historical Foundations"

Tuesday, September 05, 2023
U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Rd, Newport, RI 02841

This lecture presents an overview of China’s history since the early nineteenth century, with the purpose of helping better understand why Chinese President Xi Jinping and other high-level leaders in the People’s Republic of China respond the way they do to international and domestic events.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Get Real, Get Better"

Friday, June 02, 2023
Hybrid Event

“Get Real, Get Better” (GRGB) calls for every Navy leader to apply a set of Navy-proven leadership and problem-solving best practices to empower our people to achieve exceptional performance.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Ethics and Emerging Military Technology Program"

Monday, May 22, 2023
U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

Ethics and Emerging Military Technology (EEMT) Graduate Certificate is the combination of specialized research and coursework examining the nexus of ethics and emerging technology that goes above and beyond the Naval War College M.A. degree.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Education as a Source of National Power"

Wednesday, March 15, 2023
U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

ducation is one source of national power that feeds the instruments of national power the USA uses to pursue its national objectives. This is true historically and continues today.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Realism, Ethics and the Ukraine War"

Friday, March 10, 2023
U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

The presentation outlines the case for an ethics of responsibility, arguing for self-limitation by all sides to ensure that the Ukraine conflict does not escalate to a point that it threatens the survival of humanity.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "On Nuclear Superiority and Coercive Leverage"

Thursday, February 23, 2023
U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Rd, Newport, RI 02841

Does nuclear superiority improve national security? This question is currently debated between proponents of the Theory of the Nuclear Revolution (TNR) and its critics, yet each perspective has its limits.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Rising Tensions in the East China Sea"

Monday, February 13, 2023
U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

China's Xi Jinping professed in 2012, shortly before he was elected president, that the Chinese dream is "the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation." Since then, China has sought to become a naval power and expanded its law enforcement agency and authorized to use weapons to it.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "China Town Hall"

Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Hybrid Event

The Asia Pacific Studies Group will host China Town Hall, a national conversation on how the U.S.-China relationship affects our communities.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Steel Decks and Glass Ceilings"

Wednesday, October 19, 2022
U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

Mr. Jewell will give folks some things to think about leadership dealing with unique situations in the context of a groundbreaking deployment with women in operational roles.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Dataminr: AI Information Platform Demo"

Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Spruance Auditorium, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Rd, Newport, RI 02841

First Alert by Dataminr transforms publicly available information into actionable alerts, identifying the most relevant information in real time for members of the military.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Warfare's Evolving Nature: 2022"

Monday, May 16, 2022
Virtual Event

MG Donahue will speak on the evolving character of warfare with a special emphasis on combined arms maneuver, integration of emerging technologies, and how we have all seen it unfold in Ukraine since the conflict started.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "The Islamic State in Africa"

Thursday, May 12, 2022
Virtual Event

This lecture will feature a conversation with Dr. Jason Warner and Mr. Ryan O’Farrell as they discuss their new book: The Islamic State in Africa: The Emergence, Evolution, and Future of the Next Jihadist Battlefront.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Stoic Social Grit"

Thursday, April 28, 2022
Virtual Event

If you call someone a Stoic, you are probably thinking that they have buttoned up emotions, or can keep calm in the face of adversity, or cultivate resilience through tough inner strength and grit.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Ransomware: The New High Seas Piracy"

Monday, April 11, 2022
U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

After the attack on Colonial Pipeline, the DarkSide ransomware gang posted an "apology" that bore striking resemblance to a similar mea culpa issued by arch-pirate Henry Every in the 17th century.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "History of CIA Covert Action"

Monday, March 21, 2022
Conolly Conference Room, C-138, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

CIA began conducting covert action (CA) soon after its creation in 1947, and since then, every President has used CA as an important foreign policy instrument.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Social Media and Military Leaders"

Monday, March 07, 2022
Virtual Event

Tammy Smith is a co-author of “Why We Tweet: General Officer Use of Social Media to Engage, Influence, and Lead” (Strategy Bridge, September 7, 2020). Her presentation is intended to educate military senior leaders about the potential benefits and risks to actively engaging on social media.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Building a Fleet in an Era of Fiscal Constraint"

Wednesday, March 02, 2022
Conolly Conference Room, C-138, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

The U.S. Navy believes that the challenge to U.S. allies and interests in the Pacific posed by a rapidly growing Chinese navy and an increasingly sophisticated battle network requires a larger, more distributed fleet.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "China's Belt and Road Initiative"

Wednesday, October 06, 2021
Conolly Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

Most discussion of China’s One Belt One Road initiative focuses on overseas infrastructure projects. But the initiative is also a campaign of ideas to buttress Xi Jinping’s personality cult and entrench his domestic control.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Do the Right Thing: Stop Sexual Assault"

Monday, October 04, 2021
U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Rd, Newport, RI 02841

In 2011, former Coast Guard officer and then Maritime Administration Chief Counsel K. Denise Rucker Krepp requested an Inspector General investigation into sexual assaults occurring at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, one of the five federal service academies.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Lessons Learned from Large Scale Exercise-21"

Friday, September 24, 2021
U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Rd, Newport, RI 02841

Lectures of Opportunity offers U.S. Naval War College (NWC) students, faculty, and staff an opportunity to learn more about national and international socio-political subjects that may be of relevance to the NWC community.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Talking about Virtue Ethics"

Wednesday, August 25, 2021
Conolly Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

In the first of a series of different moral perspectives that we use in the College of Leadership and Ethics, we will discuss Virtue Ethics.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "China and Climate Change"

Monday, August 23, 2021
Virtual Event

This talk is designed to provide an overview of China’s climate policy, the factors and strategies that underpin it, and what the implications are for U.S. national interests.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "The Basics of Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning"

Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Virtual Event

Artificial intelligence and its workhorse - machine learning - are now well embedded in our society. But both are the offspring of cyberspace and completely dependent on the computational power and connectivity of underlying and shoddy cyber substrate for their development, data sharing, and operations.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Lessons from the Partner Force"

Monday, April 26, 2021
Virtual Event

In 2014, northeastern Syria might have been the last place you would expect to find a revolution centered on women's rights. And yet that year, an all-female militia faced off against ISIS in a little town few had ever heard of.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "A Grand Strategy of Democratic Solidarity"

Friday, April 09, 2021
Virtual Event

The overarching question of this century is whether the United States and other democracies can preserve a system predicated on the dominance of liberal governments and liberal ideas, or whether the world will see illiberal regimes and coercive practices ascendant.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Protection of Civilians and Human Security"

Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Virtual Event

Join us for a discussion with Sarah Petrin, former civilian advisor to the NATO Allied Command Transformation and U.S. Army Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute on the development of military concepts and operational guidance on the Protection of Civilians and Human Security.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "The Arctic – From a Norwegian Perspective"

Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Virtual Event

The challenges in the North may change, but the aim remains the same: Peace and stability. To keep it that way, we will continue to safeguard the legal framework and the regional cooperation between all Arctic states in the Arctic Council.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "The Military's Diversity Myth"

Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Virtual Event

What stories does the military tell itself about its role in leading diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts and about its leadership in developing diverse and inclusive organizations?

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Lectures of Opportunity: "African Security Issues in the Biden Era"

Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Virtual Event

This lecture of opportunity offers a survey of the on-going security issues in Africa that will be faced by the new President Joseph Biden administration. This Zoom talk is guide by American national security-foreign policy interests and the Maslow hierarchy of African human security needs.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Food Security and COVID-19"

Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Virtual Event

Efforts to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 have resulted in more than 100 million people backsliding into poverty and hunger and pushed an additional 25 million to crisis levels of hunger.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "The Robot Made Me Do It"

Tuesday, January 12, 2021
Virtual Event

This Lectures of Opportunity will explore human-machine relationships, the coming wave of AI/robotics implementation and its societal and national security impact on the US, from the experience of writing Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "The Outlaw Ocean"

Thursday, December 17, 2020
Virtual Event

There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans: too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these immense regions of treacherous water play host to rampant criminality and exploitation.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "American Honor"

Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Virtual Event

The American Revolution was not only a revolution for liberty and freedom, it was also a revolution of ethics, reshaping what colonial Americans understood as "honor" and "virtue."

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Exiting from Hegemony"

Thursday, December 10, 2020
Virtual Event

In Exit from Hegemony, Cooley and Nexon explore three processes that have eroded U.S. leadership: exit from above via great-power challengers, exit from below via weaker states leveraging the availability of new patrons, and exit from within via counter-order movements and political parties.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Understanding the Fundamentals of Climate Science & the Oceans"

Wednesday, December 09, 2020
Virtual Event

This talk is designed to provide climate science background to professionals who work in other fields of study. The transfer of energy between the ocean and atmosphere drives global weather patterns and climate variability, as the ocean contains close to 97% of Earth’s water and has absorbed more than 90% of the excess heating in the Earth system.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "The International Committee of the Red Cross"

Thursday, December 03, 2020
Virtual Event

The International Committee of the Red Cross is one of the leading global humanitarian organizations, with a mandate for humanitarian action in conflicts and other situations of violence which is established by States and enshrined in the Geneva Conventions.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Thinking in Space"

Monday, November 30, 2020
Virtual Event

This will the kick-off Lectures of Opportunity for the AY 2020-21 Levy series which will focus on highlighting the applications of geography for national security professionals and decision making

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Lectures of Opportunity: "NATO and European Security"

Tuesday, November 10, 2020
Virtual Event

NATO and Europe face serious challenges, as this new decade gets underway. Regardless of the outcome of the November election, the United States will need NATO to deal with legacy challenges in Russia and terrorism, but new challenges in China, COVID pandemic, and emerging technologies.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "The Importance of BlueTech"

Thursday, October 01, 2020
Virtual Event

Mr. Michael Jones of TMA BlueTech will discuss the Blue Economy concept, the emergence of the Bluetech industry and emergence of blue-themed ocean and maritime innovation clusters in the United States and abroad based on his many years of experience and pioneering efforts in this area, both domestically and internationally.

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POSTPONED: Lectures of Opportunity: "Einstein as an Asset"

Thursday, April 02, 2020
Mahan Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

This unique unclassified Lecture of Opportunity provides attendees an opportunity to flex their critical thinking skills on the subject of espionage and handling human intelligence.

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POSTPONED: "Lectures of Opportunity: Clausewitz, Corbett and Corvettes"

Monday, March 23, 2020
Conolly Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

If it is true that the international affairs in the 21st century will be shaped by a Great Power Competition, which options does that leave for a medium sized European country like Germany?

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POSTPONED: "Lectures of Opportunity: National Security Origins"

Thursday, March 19, 2020
Conolly Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

The some of the origins of covert action in the America’s is not what most people think! “One of the longest unwritten chapters in the history of the United States is [the treatment] of relations between Negroes and Indians.

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POSTPONED: "Lectures of Opportunity: USAID is Downright Disruptive..."

Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Conolly Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

Most Americans conceptualize development assistance to other countries as something that we do that is “nice to do”, however many people express concern over the value it adds to our foreign policy, particularly in light of domestic concerns.

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POSTPONED: "Lectures of Opportunity: Bombs Without Boots"

Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Mahan Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

Anthony Schinella will discuss his book Bombs without Boots offering a new and thoughtful discussion of the limitations and utility of airpower when used without commitment of ground forces.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Friendship on the Sea"

Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Conolly Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

Professor Naoyuki Agawa will offer remarks and take questions to discuss the historical importance of strategic partnerships among navies, the role of international law, and other contemporary aspects of strategic collaboration in the global maritime arena of the twenty-first century.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Enduring Defeat of ISIS"

Monday, February 10, 2020
Conolly Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

The Operation Inherent Resolve “Enduring Defeat of ISIS” campaign in Northeast Syria has been an excellent example of successful, mutually-supporting joint and combined Coalition civilian-military cooperation and collaboration.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Security from the Greenlandic Perspective"

Thursday, February 06, 2020
Conolly Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

Professor Ackrén will lecture on the distribution of political power between the Danish and Greenlandic governments, and explain how this relationship has been evolving in recent years.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "A Nuclear Education"

Thursday, January 30, 2020
Conolly Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

In his Enduring Alliance: A History of NATO and the Postwar Global Order (Cornell University Press, 2019), Tim Sayle argued that NATO survived the Cold War because it offered solutions to foreign policy challenges posed by the democratic age.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "China's Shadow over the Trans-Atlantic Relationship"

Monday, December 16, 2019
Hewitt Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

The China factor is increasingly assuming center stage in discussions about the future of the trans-Atlantic relationship, both because of the deterioration of U.S.-China relations but also because of China's emergence as a player in European affairs.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "The Navy Strategy"

Tuesday, December 10, 2019
Conolly Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

This presentation will draw on Mr. Stubbs' personal experience in developing the last three Navy Strategies as well as the expertise of a myriad of those who developed strategies before him to highlight both successes and failures in the process.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Restoring the Initiative"

Monday, December 09, 2019
Conolly Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

In his planning guidance, CMC announced a shift in focus: USMC will shift focus to support USN in sea control and denial operations and become the Marine Corps the Navy needs.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "India’s Emerging National Security Challenges"

Wednesday, November 06, 2019
Hewitt Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

India faces strategic challenges of growing complexity, in an arc spanning from west to east including Afghanistan, Pakistan and China, and then sweeping south to involve maritime security issues.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Law of the Sea in South East Asia"

Tuesday, November 05, 2019
Hewitt Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

This seminar will assess some of the key law of the sea issues that currently exist in South East Asia and related areas of the Asia Pacific, especially in light of the 2016 South China Sea arbitration.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Winning the Peace with 1%"

Monday, November 04, 2019
Hewitt Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

For less than 1% of the federal budget, U.S. foreign assistance has helped lift millions out of poverty, eradicated diseases, and rebuilt communities recovering from disasters.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Arc of Containment"

Thursday, October 24, 2019
Conolly Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

Major studies of American foreign relations treat U.S. failures in Vietnam as the end of both a short-lived American empire and western imperialism in Southeast Asia. Ngoei argues that Vietnam was an exception to the region’s overall pro-U.S. trajectory after 1945, that British neocolonialism and Southeast Asian anticommunism melded with preexisting local antipathy toward China and the Chinese diaspora to usher the region from formal colonialism to U.S. hegemony.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Joint Task Force Civil Support"

Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Conolly Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

Exploring JTF-CS’s mission to anticipate, plan, and execute chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear response operations to save lives, prevent further injury and provide temporary critical support to enable community recovery.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Improving Animal Health"

Wednesday, October 09, 2019
Conolly Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

The link between animal health and national security is significant. Approximately 2.5 billion of the world’s poor rely on agriculture and livestock for food, income, and/or societal status.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Observations and Lessons in Inter-Agency Cooperation"

Tuesday, October 08, 2019
Pringle Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

Central Intelligence Agency Associate Director for Military Affairs and former U.S. Naval War College President Vice Admiral P. Gardner Howe III will share his observations and insights in this Lecture of Opportunity.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "The Russia Trap"

Thursday, October 03, 2019
Mahan Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

Are U.S.-Russia relations spiraling towards conflict? The tangled set of issues crisscrossing the U.S.-Russian relationship does reflect the complexities of a classic wicked problem.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Food Systems and National Security"

Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Conolly Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

Since her service as Under Secretary of Agriculture, Dr. Jahn as focused on developing the concept of food systems in the context of national security.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "How To Think Like An Officer"

Thursday, September 19, 2019
Conolly Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

I used to tell my students at Kings Point that I was trying to teach them how to think like officers. Of course, I was challenged on this. What did I mean by that exactly, sir?

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Futures of Surface Naval Combatants"

Wednesday, September 18, 2019
Conolly Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

The developing technologies, their availability/ capabilities and impacts upon future threats, vulnerabilities and viability of surface Naval Combatants. Alternative approaches to surface naval task forces for A2/AD mission objectives.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Pillar to Pillory"

Monday, September 16, 2019
Conolly Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

It is a commonly asked question, why does the Navy fire commanding officers? Captain Junge identified over 1500 post-World War II incidents to find out why, and whether the Navy’s actions are new, or a tradition as old as the country itself.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Defense Technology Lecture Series: Cyber-Physical Systems"

Thursday, September 12, 2019
McCarty Little Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

MIT/LL research scientists will provide five Lectures of Opportunity in September and October covering these topics: Cyber Security Threats and Technologies, Military Space, Artificial Intelligence, Communication Systems, and Autonomous Systems.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Countering A2/AD"

Wednesday, September 11, 2019
Hewitt Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

A2/AD has emerged as a major concern and as a shaping concept in the US defense debate over the past decade. However, A2/AD has only recently started to be discussed within NATO, even though A2/AD should also be a European concern.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Tactics and Strategies to Defeat Islamist Extremism"

Thursday, September 05, 2019
Conolly Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

This Lectures of Opportunity on "Tactics and Strategies to Defeat Islamist Extremism" will focus on several typical groups such as ISIS, Al-Qa'eda, and Boko Haram and their franchises in the African Sahel, the Horn of Africa and the Middle East.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "FILM SCREENING: The Age of Consequences"

Wednesday, September 04, 2019
Hewitt Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

This film investigates the impacts of climate change on increased resource scarcity, migration, and conflict through the lens of US national security and global stability.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Future Security Challenges in the Asia-Pacific"

Tuesday, September 03, 2019
Conolly Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

On the 20th anniversary of the crisis in Timor Leste, Ms. Eggleston will explore current pressing issues facing the Asia-Pacific region including China’s use of soft power in the Pacific region and the decision on what could be the world’s newest nation.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "The Role of Congress"

Thursday, August 29, 2019
Spruance Auditorium, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

Lectures of Opportunity offer U.S. Naval War College (NWC) students, faculty, and staff an opportunity to learn more about national and international socio-political subjects that may be of relevance to the NWC community.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "'Hot Dogs' and 'Great' War"

Tuesday, August 20, 2019
Conolly Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

This presentation is offered in anticipation of the upcoming third annual "Cardines Classic," which is historically themed baseball game between NWC Students who will appear in period accurate Army and Navy baseball uniforms at Cardines Field on 6 September -- gates opening at 16:30.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Navy Foreign Area Officer Community Overview"

Tuesday, June 11, 2019
Conolly Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

Foreign Area Officers are the Navy's maritime international engagement professionals, providing a unique combination of operational experience, cultural knowledge, and language expertise to the fleet.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Three Kings in Newport"

Monday, June 10, 2019
Conolly Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

This presentation is a panel discussion by the three living holders of the Ernest J. King Chair at the U.S. Naval War College: J. Kenneth McDonald, John B. Hattendorf, and Craig Symonds.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Getting China Right"

Monday, June 03, 2019
Conolly Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

The United States has been the world’s dominant power for more than a century. Now, many analysts believe China is taking its place. Is China an emerging superpower? Should the United States gear up for a new cold war in Asia?

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Lectures of Opportunity: "The Battle of Paris"

Thursday, May 30, 2019
Connolly Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

A hundred years ago, a looming naval competition between Great Britain and the United States threatened to wreck the peace negotiations underway in Paris to end the First World War.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Arctic Melting Ice While Making Law: The Evolving Legal Order of the Arctic"

Thursday, May 30, 2019
Conolly Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

Arctic prescriptions and institutions are increasingly shaped by cryosphere conditions. As conditions change, the Arctic becomes more accessible; with increased access follow claims to control by State and non-state actors. With Arctic interests pertaining to defense, navigation, trade and the environment, the interactions between interested actors are subject to legal processes and regulations that are national, regional and international.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Russia and its Challenges: Now into the Next Generation"

Tuesday, May 28, 2019
Conolly Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

This discussion will provide a short geostrategic survey of the vast Russian Federation from a Eurasian perspective. It will touch domestically and externally on Russia's contemporary challenges and actions while also taking a long view into the next generation.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "A Stormy Outlook for the South China Sea"

Tuesday, May 21, 2019
Mahan Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

Following the completion of China’s island-building campaign in the Spratly Islands and the start of negotiations on resource sharing and a code of conduct, Beijing has pushed a narrative that tensions have cooled and it is seeking a peaceful, diplomatic resolution to disputes with its neighbors.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "The Lafayette Escadrille"

Monday, May 20, 2019
Conolly Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

Lectures of Opportunity offer U.S. Naval War College (NWC) students, faculty, and staff an opportunity to learn more about national and international socio-political subjects that may be of relevance to the NWC community.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "U.S. Air Force Foreign Material Program"

Friday, May 17, 2019
McCarty Little Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

The lecture will focus on the U.S. Air Force Foreign Material Program, giving more information on the program's authorities, mission, organizational structure, challenges, past successes, and current programs.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "History of Killer Robots at Sea"

Wednesday, May 08, 2019
Hewitt Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

The concept of a shipborne light unmanned helicopter for surveillance would re-emerge fifty years after the QH-50's heyday in the form of the MQ-8 Fire Scout. The president of the Gyrodyne Helicopter Historical Foundation will speak about the history of these “cold-war killer-robots from-the-sea”.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Syria Conflict Mapping Project"

Tuesday, May 07, 2019
Conolly Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

This project analyzes open source information related to the Syrian conflict in as much detail as possible, with the goal of assisting mediators and humanitarian responders.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "A Theory of Political Violence"

Thursday, April 25, 2019
Conolly Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

Lectures of Opportunity offer U.S. Naval War College (NWC) students, faculty, and staff an opportunity to learn more about national and international socio-political subjects that may be of relevance to the NWC community.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Compile to Combat – 24 hours"

Tuesday, April 23, 2019
McCarty Little Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

The "Compile to Combat - 24 Hours” (C2C24) concept is an attempt to shorten the time it takes to get ships afloat – cutting the time to deploy new software capabilities to less than 24 hours, not the common 18-month timeframe.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "BlueTech and Venture Innovation"

Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Conolly Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

Lectures of Opportunity offer U.S. Naval War College (NWC) students, faculty, and staff an opportunity to learn more about national and international socio-political subjects that may be of relevance to the NWC community.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Tactical Solutions for Strategic Problems"

Thursday, February 28, 2019
Pringle Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

Lectures of Opportunity offer Naval War College (NWC) students, faculty, and staff an opportunity to learn more about national and international socio-political subjects that may be of relevance to the NWC community.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "UK Global Strategic Trends 6"

Thursday, February 14, 2019
Conolly Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

Lectures of Opportunity offer Naval War College (NWC) students, faculty, and staff an opportunity to learn more about national and international socio-political subjects that may be of relevance to the NWC community.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Bombs without Boots: The Limits of Airpower"

Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Hewitt Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

Lectures of Opportunity (LOOs) offer Naval War College (NWC) students, faculty, and staff an opportunity to learn more about national and international socio-political subjects that may be of relevance to the NWC community.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "An Update on Trending Fraudulent Acts"

Wednesday, February 06, 2019
Conolly Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

In this session, we will discuss some of the fraud statistics and highlights from the 2018 Report to the Nations from The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE); a comprehensive global report based on over 2,600 actual fraud cases from 125 countries.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "China’s Maritime Strategy"

Thursday, January 31, 2019
Conolly Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

China’s maritime rise and its emerging sea power are attracting worldwide attention and reaction. What’s the core significance of sea power for today’s world? What are the major elements of sea power at present?

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Mobilizing Mistrust"

Wednesday, January 09, 2019
Conolly Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

Lectures of Opportunity offer Naval War College (NWC) students, faculty and staff an opportunity to learn more about national and international socio-political subjects that may be of relevance to the NWC community.

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Lectures of Opportunity: "Attack on USS Mason"

Wednesday, January 09, 2019
McCarty Little Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

Lectures of Opportunity offer Naval War College students, faculty and staff an opportunity to learn more about national and international socio-political subjects that may be of relevance to the NWC community.

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Lectures of Opportunity: Steps towards Moral Competence in Autonomous Robot

Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Hewitt Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

Morality is a fundamentally human trait which permeates all levels of human society, from basic etiquette and normative expectations of social groups, to formalized legal principles upheld by societies.

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Lectures of Opportunity: USAID Today

Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Hewitt Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

In the context of the current administration’s priorities, this LOO provides a familiarization with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and its role in U.S. security interests.

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Lectures of Opportunity: When Proliferation Causes Peace

Monday, September 10, 2018
Hewitt Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, R.I. 02841

Does state acquisition of nuclear weapons lead to stability and peace or instability and crises? This is one of the great debates in international relations scholarship.

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Lectures of Opportunity: Unconstrained Foreign Direct Investment

Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Conolly Hall, U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

Foreign direct investment (FDI) in the Arctic is ramping up at a brisk pace, with China leading the way. This lecture takes stock of the current FDI patterns — at the transactional level — with a particular focus on Chinese activity in the Arctic as a case study.