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Episode 66 of the Irregular Warfare Podcast explores how America’s security cooperation programs can help shape regional security environments by training foreign militaries.

War is foggy. Technology promises to lift the fog of war. War is still foggy.

The limits of the United States’ ability to preserve its hegemony and restrain competitors have compelled the national security community to refocus on Great Power competition to inform strategy development at the regional level.

Hear from Professor Derek Reveron, Chair of the National Security Affairs Department of the US Naval War College, and ServiceNow's Shawnna Hoffman, IT Transformation Solution Sales Manager, as they discuss lessons learned from previous cyberattacks and hear best practices for managing cyber risk and analyzing weak links in your supply chain.

Our lives are being rocked by cyber disruptions, like the one that shut down the Colonial Pipeline. Llewellyn King talks about this with John Savage, professor emeritus of computer science at Brown University, and Derek Reveron, chair of the National Security Affairs Department at the Naval War College.

In keeping with the assessments made by Derek Reveron and Nikolas Gvosdev in their original Orbis piece, how significantly different is this interim guidance—and does it validate their conclusion that U.S. national strategy exhibits an understated but very real degree of continuity?

While militaries historically have cooperated against a common adversary, the decline of interstate war and the rise of transnational threats have made the prospect of exporting security more compelling. From the Cold War, the United States took away the lesson that by providing for other countries’ security, it could advance its trade and economic agendas and prevent the emergence of military competitors.

The Bush administration's designation of its national strategy as a war on terror highlights the importance of combating terrorism on an international level. Fundamental to this effort is bilateral intelligence-sharing. Intelligence reform efforts to date have focused on improving intelligence-sharing within the U.S. intelligence community. However, critical intelligence can be gained through America's international partners.

The United Nations and implementing standard and norms for peace and security in 2045.
Keynote speaker:
Senator Kimberley Kitching, Chair of Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee, Parliament of Australia
Discussants:
Marc Rotenberg, Director of Center for AI and Digital Policy at Michael Dukakis Institute
Derek Reveron, Chair, National Security Affairs, US Naval War College

On Thursday, September 10, 2020, Georgetown University Press (GUP), Georgetown College, and Georgetown University Library hosted U.S. Naval War College Professors Derek Reveron and Nikolas Gvosdev in our Books for a Better World online event series. They talked about the future of U.S. foreign policy with GUP director Al Bertrand.

The online world is threatened by interstate rivals that engage in influence operations, economic espionage, and intelligence gathering and criminal groups that steal identities, ransom data, and grow their enterprises. Insiders facilitate intrusions wittingly and unwittingly raising the importance of corporations’ roles in cybersecurity.

First, we do not see human and national security as mutually exclusive. They often are presented in that way, but we did our best to show how the two are interdependent and why national security cannot exist without human security.

Derek has been one of the pioneers in developing and exploring this concept of human security, taking national security away from perhaps just the grand strategic level and bringing it down to the needs and interests of the human being, and how these global developments can impact the individual, whether it be exposure to disease, cyber issues, and how what we do in our lives online intersects with these trends and with these developments.

Our article attempted to rediscover national interests to guide U.S. behavior internationally and reconsider long-standing policies sustained inasmuch by inertia as deliberate policy.

Human and National Security: Understanding Transnational Challenges