Lectures of Opportunity: "How Boston EMS Managed Capacity During the Spring 2020 COVID Outbreak" Tuesday, January 26, 2021 12:00 p.m. Virtual Event Boston Emergency Medical Services (EMS) provides 9-1-1 pre-hospital care and transport. Pandemics, like COVID-19, alter the types of calls served, while reducing the available number of EMS personnel, and necessitating extra safety measures that add time to each call served.
Issues in National Security: "Modern Monuments Men" Tuesday, January 26, 2021 4:30 p.m. Virtual Event The 'Issues in National Security' lectures represent current political, military, economic, and social issues that challenge strategists and concern citizens therefore the lectures are tailored to the spouses and significant others of U.S. Naval War College students, staff, and faculty.
Lectures of Opportunity: "A Blue Arctic: The Department of the U.S. Navy’s Strategic Blueprint for the Arctic" Friday, January 22, 2021 12:00 p.m. Virtual Event On January 5th 2021, the Department of the Navy released its Strategic Blueprint for the Arctic titled a ‘Blue Arctic’. This forward-looking strategy describes how the Department will apply and integrate naval power in an increasingly navigable Arctic region over the next two decades.
Lectures of Opportunity: "North Korea's Foreign Policy - Goals and Actors" Wednesday, January 20, 2021 1:00 p.m. Virtual Event This Lecture of Opportunity will address North Korea's strategic foreign policy goals with the United States, China, South Korea, Japan, and Russia.
Lectures of Opportunity: "Artificial Intelligence and Transformation: How AI will Change Warfare" Friday, January 15, 2021 12:00 p.m. Virtual Event Recently confirmed Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) Director Lieutenant General Michael Groen, U.S. Marine Corps, is making U.S. Naval War College one of his first public presentations in a fireside chat with curated questions.
Lectures of Opportunity: "What is Honesty, Are Most People Honest, and How can We Become More Honest?" Wednesday, January 13, 2021 12:00 p.m. Virtual Event Honesty is clearly an important virtue, but very little has been written about it in recent decades. We will begin by first noting that honesty pertains to a wide range of behaviors, including lying, misleading, cheating, stealing, self-deception, and hypocrisy.
Lectures of Opportunity: "The Robot Made Me Do It" Tuesday, January 12, 2021 12:00 p.m. 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 U.S., from the experience of writing Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution.
Issues in National Security: "National Security and Space" Tuesday, January 12, 2021 4:30 p.m. Virtual Event The 'Issues in National Security' lectures represent current political, military, economic, and social issues that challenge strategists and concern citizens therefore the lectures are tailored to the spouses and significant others of U.S. Naval War College students, staff, and faculty.
Lectures of Opportunity: "Understanding the Chinese Communist Party and Dealing with Covert, Coercive and Corrupting United Front Work" Monday, January 11, 2021 12:00 p.m. Virtual Event Assistant Secretary Stilwell will give a presentation entitled “Securing Freedom: Critical Thinking” which assesses the geopolitical ambitions of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and their efforts to control and manipulate the information space to influence global public opinion.
U.S. Naval War College Town Hall on Zoom Friday, January 08, 2021 12:30 p.m. Virtual Event Friday, January 8th, U.S. Naval War College (NWC) President, along with special guests will host the sixteenth NWC Town Hall on Zoom.