An Assessment of the US Security Policy Under the President Joe

An Assessment of the US Security Policy Under the President Joe Biden Administration The videoconference was held on Thursday, 21 January 2021, between 16:30-18:00 on ROU time (GMT+2) via Webex.

16:30-16:35 – Introduction by the Moderator, MG (Ret.) Leonardo Dinu, Member of the Scientific Council of New Strategy Center; Speakers: 16:35-17:45 – Mr. Ian Brzezinski, Chairman, Brzezinski Group, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Europe and NATO Policy, USA; 17:45-17:55 – LTG (Ret.) Ben Hodges, Pershing Chair for Strategic Studies, Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), former commander United States Army Europe, USA; 17:55-18:05 – Dr. Harlan Ullman, Senior Advisor, Atlantic Council, USA; 17:05 – 18:00 - Open Discussion

Mr. Ian Brzezinski is the Chairman of the Brzezinski Group, Resident Senior Fellow, Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, The Atlantic Council, United States of America. Ian Brzezinski is Senior Fellow in the International Security Program and is on the Council’s Strategic Advisors Group (SAG). He brings to the Council and its International Security Program over two decades of experience in U.S. national security matters having served in senior policy positions in the Department of Defense and the U.S. Congress. Mr. Brzezinski served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Europe and NATO Policy (2001–05). His office formulated, coordinated and executed bilateral and regional engagement strategies and defense guidance with the Joint Staff, Unified Combatant Commands and Department of Defense elements. His responsibilities included NATO expansion, Alliance force planning and transformation and NATO operations in the Balkans, the Mediterranean, Afghanistan and Iraq. Key highlights of his tenure include the expansion of NATO membership in 2004, the consolidation and reconfiguration of the Alliance’s command structure, the standing up of the NATO Response Force and the coordination of European military contributions to U.S. and NATO-led operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans.

LTG (Ret) Ben Hodges holds the Pershing Chair in Strategic Studies at the Center for European Policy Analysis. He joined CEPA in February 2018. General Hodges graduated from the United States Military Academy in May 1980 and was commissioned in the Infantry. After his first assignment as an Infantry Lieutenant in Garlstedt, Germany, he commanded Infantry units at the

Company, Battalion, and Brigade levels in the 101st Airborne Division, including Command of the First Brigade Combat Team “Bastogne” of the 101st Airborne Division in Operation IRAQI FREEDOM (2003-2004). His other operational assignments include Chief of Operations for Multi- National Corps-Iraq in Operation IRAQI FREEDOM (2005-2006) and Director of Operations, Regional Command South in Kandahar, Afghanistan (2009-2010). General Hodges has also served in a variety of Joint and Army Staff positions to include Tactics Instructor; Chief of Plans, 2nd Infantry Division in Korea; Aide-de-Camp to the Supreme Allied Commander Europe; Chief of Staff, XVIII Airborne Corps; Director of the Pakistan Afghanistan Coordination Cell on the Joint Staff; Chief of Legislative Liaison for the United States Army; and Commander, NATO Allied Land Command (İzmir, Turkey). His last military assignment was as Commanding General, United States Army Europe (Wiesbaden, Germany) from 2014 to 2017. He retired from the U.S. Army in January 2018.

Dr. Harlan Ullman is chairs The Killowen Group that acts as both a strategic investor in high technology companies and advises leaders of business and government at the highest level and is Senior Advisor of CNIGuard Ltd, a high technology infrastructure protection firm based in London and New York that he chaired for the past decade and is Senior Advisor at the Atlantic Council. He has actively advised American Secretaries of State and Defense, NATO strategic commanders (including serving on the Senior Advisory Board of Supreme Allied Commander Europe for thirteen years) and NATO secretaries general as well as members of Congress and heads of a number of foreign governments in Europe and the Indo-Pacific regions. He is recognized as one of the globe’s thought leaders in strategic and innovative thinking both in the public and private sectors arguing for a “brains based approach” for critical thinking and “Porcupine Defense.” A career naval officer, he served at sea in command and ashore in senior assignments of responsibility with the Royal Navy afloat. As a Swift boat skipper, he led over 150 combat patrols and operations in Vietnam for which he was decorated and was a professor at the National War College . He was appointed the first Distinguished Senior Fellow and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island from 2017-2019 and is UPI's Arnaud deBorchgrave Distinguished Columnist. His latest book due out this year is “The Fifth Horseman and the New MAD: The Tragic Hisory of How Massive Acts of Disruption Are Endangering, Infecting, Engulfing and Disuniting a 51% Nation”.