FUTURE OF WAR CONFERENCE ‘17

March 21, 2017 Washington, D.C.

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FUTURE OF WAR CONFERENCE ‘17

New America and Arizona State University welcome you to the Future of War Conference 2017. This conference features leaders from government, military, journalism, academia, and the private sector exploring questions of international security and defense, including military innovation and force structure, post-ISIS areas of Iraq and Syria, U.S. relations with Russia and China, the weaponization of social media, and more.

This conference is one of the signature events of the Future of War project—a partnership between New America and Arizona State University—which brings together experts working to develop new paradigms for understanding and addressing the changing nature of armed conflict and systematic violence.

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About the Future of War Project

The Future of War project—a partnership with Arizona State University—brings together a collection of experts across sectors to address key issues and challenges arising from the changing nature of conflict and war. Developments both in the technological drivers of warfare and the enemies we face have erased the boundaries between what we have traditionally regarded as “war” and “peace.”

Today, we are at a major inflection point, one in which technology is reshaping the way wars are fought. The future of warfare will be shaped by new technologies such as: the role of ever-smaller drones and robots on the battlefield; offensive cyber war capabilities; extraordinary surveillance capabilities, both on the battlefield and of particular individuals; greater reliance on Special Operations Forces operating in non-conventional conflicts; and the militarization of space.

The Future of War project addresses these issues by convening some of the most creative and influential thinkers, writers and decision-makers dealing with war and conflict to develop bold conceptual frameworks, create legal and policy proposals, and write and talk about the future of war in a manner that attracts interest and public engagement.

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8:45 - 9:00 AM

Welcome and Opening Remarks

LTG (Ret. ) Benjamin C. Freakley Anne-Marie Slaughter Professor of Practice of Leadership and President and CEO, New America Special Advisor to President Michael Crow for Leadership Initiatives, ASU 9:00 - 9:45 AM

Tomorrow’s Army: A Conversation with General Mark A. Milley

General Mark A. Milley Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army Moderated by Anne-Marie Slaughter, President and CEO, New America 9:45 - 10:10 AM Break

10:10 - 10:55 AM

Tomorrow’s Air Force: A Conversation with General David L. Goldfein

General David L. Goldfein Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force Moderated by Kevin Baron, Executive Editor, Defense One 10:55 - 11:15 AM

What are the Lessons of Colombia’s Peace Deal with the FARC for Ending Other Civil Wars?

Juan Carlos Pinzón Ambassador of Colombia to the United States Moderated by Annette Idler, Director of Studies at the Changing Character of War Centre, University of Oxford

11:15 AM - 12:00 PM

How Do We Inject Innovation into the Defense Department?

Eric Schmidt Executive Chairman, Alphabet Inc. Moderated by Tom Ricks, Senior Advisor, International Security program, New America and Contributing Editor, Foreign Policy magazine 4 Schedule

12:00 - 12:30 PM Lunch

12:30 - 12:40 PM

Social Media Jihad 2.0: Inside ISIS’ Global Recruitment and Incitement Campaign

Michael S. Smith II Terrorism Analyst and former Kronos Advisory Principal and COO

12:40 - 1:20 PM

War Goes Viral: What Does It Mean When Social Media is Weaponized?

Brad Allenby Yasmin Green Adam Sharp Ahmed Younis Co-Director of Director of Former Head of Principal Deputy the Weaponized Research and News, Government Special Envoy Narrative Initiative, Development, and Elections, and Coordinator, Center on the Jigsaw Twitter Global Engagement Future of War, ASU Center, U.S. State Department Moderated by Peter W. Singer, Strategist and Senior Fellow, New America 1:20 - 2:05 PM

What’s Next for Iraq and Syria?

Erica Chenoweth Lukman Faily Douglas Ollivant Reed Wood Associate Dean for Former ASU Future of War Associate Professor Research, Josef Ambassador of Iraq Senior Fellow, in the School of Korbel School to the United States New America and Politics and Global of International Managing Partner, Studies, ASU Studies, University Mantid International of Denver

Moderated by Rob Johnson, Director, Changing Character of War Centre, University of Oxford

2:05 - 2:15 PM

Peaceland

Séverine Autesserre Associate Professor of Political Science, Barnard College, Columbia University

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2:15 - 2:45 PM

Can We Stop War Before It Starts?

Mina Chang Jake Harriman Rebecca J. Wolfe CEO, Linking the World Founder and CEO, Nuru Director of Peace and International Conflict, Mercy Corps

Moderated by Sharon Burke, Senior Advisor and Director, Resource Security program, New America

2:45 - 3:00 PM Break

3:00 - 3:20 PM

The Future of Afghanistan: A Conversation with H.E. Dr. Hamdullah Mohib

Hamdullah Mohib Ambassador of Afghanistan to the United States

Moderated by Ioannis “Gianni” Koskinas, Senior Fellow, New America International Security program and CEO, the Hoplite Group

3:20 - 3:45 PM

Moral Injury: What Are the Future Costs of Today’s Wars?

Andrea Ellner Tom Frame Theodore David Wood Lecturer in Defence Director, Australian Johnson ASU Future of War Studies, King’s Centre for the Study Eric and Wendy Senior Fellow, College London of Armed Conflict Schmidt Fellow, New America, and and Society New America Author, What Have We Done

Moderated by Daniel Rothenberg, Co-Director, Center on the Future of War and Professor of Practice, School of Politics and Global Studies (ASU)

3:45 - 3:55 PM

How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything

Rosa Brooks ASU Future of War Senior Fellow, New America; Columnist,Foreign Policy; and Professor, Georgetown University Law Center 6 Schedule

3:55 - 4:30 PM

Can We Move Beyond Buzzwords? Can Innovation Actually Hack The Acquisition Cycle?

Elana Broitman Alexander Gray Raj Shah Jackie Space Director, New Deputy Director, Managing Partner, Partner, BMNT America NYC Defense Industrial Defense Innovation Base, White House Unit Experimental National Trade (DIUx) Council

Moderated by Stephen Rodriguez, Fellow, New America International Security program and Founder, One Defense

4:30 - 5:00 PM

The Bear and the Dragon: What Will The Future Bring in U.S.-China-Russia Relations?

Evelyn Farkas James Mulvenon Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Vice-President, Intelligence Division, Defense for Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia Defense Group, Inc.; Director of the Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis

Moderated by Heather Hurlburt, Director, New Models of Policy Change Initiative, New America

5:00 - 5:30 PM Closing Remarks and Reception

5:30 - 7:00 PM

Exclusive Screening of LEGION OF BROTHERS followed by a Q&A with the Cast and Crew

Jason Amerine Greg Barker Peter Bergen Future of War Fellow, New Director and Producer, Vice President, New America LEGION OF BROTHERS America and Producer, LEGION OF BROTHERS Tresha Mabile Scott Neil Robert “Bob” Producer, LEGION OF Retired Special Forces/ Pennington BROTHERS Small Business Chief Warrant Officer Entrepreneur Four (Ret.), US Army

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GENERAL DAVID L. GOLDFEIN Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force

Gen. David L. Goldfein is Chief of Staff of as a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff the U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C. As Requirements Oversight Council and Chief, he serves as the senior uniformed Deputy Advisory Working Group. Before Air Force officer responsible for the serving as the Vice Chief, General Goldfein organization, training and equipping of was the Director, Joint Staff, the Pentagon, 660,000 active-duty, Guard, Reserve and Washington, D.C. civilian forces serving in the United States General Goldfein received his commission and overseas. As a member of the Joint from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1983. Chiefs of Staff, the general and other He is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force service chiefs function as military advisers Weapons School and is a command pilot to the Secretary of Defense, National with more than 4,200 flying hours in the Security Council and the President. T-37, T-38, F-16C/D, F-117A, MQ-9 and Prior to assuming his current position, MC-12W. He has flown combat missions in General Goldfein was the Vice Chief operations Desert Shield, Desert Storm, of Staff of the U.S. Air Force, where he Allied Force and Enduring Freedom. presided over the Air Staff and served

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GENERAL MARK A. MILLEY Chief of Staff, U.S. Army

General Mark A. Milley assumed duty as He commanded the 1st Battalion, 506th the 39th Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army Infantry, 2nd Infantry Division; the 2nd August 14, 2015 after most recently Brigade, 10th Mountain Division; served serving as the 21st Commander of U.S. as the Deputy Commanding General Army Forces Command at Fort Bragg, for the 101st Airborne (Air Assault); and North Carolina. served as the Commanding General for 10th Mountain Division. While serving A native of Winchester, Massachusetts, as the Commanding General, III Corps General Milley graduated and received and Fort Hood, he deployed as the his commission from Princeton University Commanding General, International in 1980. He has had multiple command Security Assistance Force Joint Command and staff positions in eight divisions and and Deputy Commanding General, U.S. Special Forces throughout the last 35 Forces – Afghanistan. Additionally, he years. served on the operations staff of The Joint Staff as the J33/DDRO, and as a Military He has served in command and Assistant to the Secretary of Defense at leadership positions from the platoon the Pentagon. and operational detachment alpha level through Corps and Army Command General Milley’s education includes a including the 82nd Airborne Division and Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science the 5th Special Forces Group at Fort from Princeton University, Master’s Bragg, North Carolina; the 7th Infantry Degrees from Columbia University Division at Fort Ord, California; the 10th (International Relations) and from the U.S. Mountain Division at Fort Drum, New Naval War College (National Security and York; the 2nd Infantry Division in Korea; Strategic Studies). He is also a graduate the Joint Readiness Center at Fort Polk, of the MIT Seminar XXI National Security Louisiana; the 25th Infantry Division at Studies Program. Schofield Barracks, Hawaii; the 101st Airborne (Air Assault) at Fort Campbell, General Milley and his wife have been Kentucky; and the 1st Cavalry Division and married for more than 30 years and have 3rd Infantry Division in Baghdad, Iraq. two children.

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ERIC SCHMIDT Executive Chairman, Alphabet, Inc.

Eric Schmidt is the executive chairman well as a master’s degree and Ph.D. in of Alphabet Inc. He is responsible for computer science from the University of the external matters of all of the holding California, Berkeley. company’s businesses, including Google Eric is a member of the President’s Inc., advising their CEOs and leadership on Council of Advisors on Science. He business and policy issues. was elected to the National Academy Prior to the establishment of Alphabet, of Engineering in 2006 and inducted Eric was the chairman of Google Inc. for into the American Academy of Arts and four years. From 2001-2011, Eric served Sciences as a fellow in 2007. Since 2008, as Google’s chief executive officer, he has been a trustee of the Institute for overseeing the company’s technical and Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. business strategy alongside founders Since 2012, Eric has been on the board of Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Under his the Broad Institute and the Mayo Clinic. In leadership, Google dramatically scaled its 2013, Eric and Jared Cohen co-authored infrastructure and diversified its product The New York Times bestselling book, The offerings while maintaining a strong New Digital Age: Transforming Nations, culture of innovation, growing from a Businesses, and Our Lives. In September Silicon Valley startup to a global leader in 2014, Eric published his second New York technology. Times bestseller, How Google Works, which he and Jonathan Rosenberg co- Prior to joining Google, Eric was the authored with Alan Eagle. Eric became the chairman and CEO of Novell and chief Chairman of the Department of Defense’s technology officer at Sun Microsystems, Innovation Board in 2016 and was awarded Inc. Previously, he served on the research the Department of Defense Medal for staff at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Distinguished Public Service in January (PARC), Bell Laboratories and Zilog. He of 2017 by Secretary of Defense Ashton holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical Carter. engineering from Princeton University as

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BRAD technologies. His latest books Keynote Speaker are Industrial Ecology and Sustainable ALLENBY Engineering (co-authored with Tom Braden R. Allenby Graedel, 2010), The Theory and Practice is the co-director of of Sustainable Engineering (Pearson/ the The Weaponized Prentice-Hall, 2011), and The Techno- Narrative Initiative Human Condition (with Dan Sarewitz, of the Center on the Future of War, a 2011). partnership of Arizona State University and New America. He is the Lincoln JASON Professor of Engineering and Ethics, AMERINE and Professor of Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering, and of Lieutenant Colonel Law, at Arizona State University, having (Retired) Jason moved from his previous position as Amerine is a Future the Environment, Health and Safety of War Fellow at Vice President for AT&T in 2004. He New America. Jason is a 1993 graduate is the founding director of the Center of the United States Military Academy for Earth Systems Engineering and (West Point) with a Bachelor of Science Management, and the founding in Arabic. chair of the Consortium for Emerging As an infantryman, Amerine’s military Technologies, Military Operations, and assignments included the 442nd National Security, at ASU. He is also Infantry, Fort DeRussy, Hawaii; 5/87th an AAAS Fellow, a Batten Fellow in Infantry, Fort Davis, Panama; and the Residence at the University of Virginias Joint Security Force Company, Pan Mun Darden Graduate School of Business Jom, Republic of Korea. Administration, and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, Manufactures In 1998, he was selected to attend the & Commerce. He was the U.S. Naval Special Forces Detachment Officer Academy Stockdale Fellow in 2009- Qualification Course. Upon graduation, 2010, a Templeton Fellow in 2008-2010, he was re-branched to Special Forces and the J. Herbert Hollowman Fellow at and was given command of ODA 572 the National Academy of Engineering at Ft. Campbell as part of 5th Special in 1991-1992. During 1995 and 1996 Forces Group (Airborne) and later he served as Director of Energy and commanded ODA 574. Environmental Systems at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Dr. Jason Amerine went on to receive a Allenby received his BA from Yale Masters in International Affairs from University in 1972, his J. D. from the Texas A&M in 2003. In 2004, Amerine University of Virginia Law School in 1978, was assigned as an assistant professor his Masters in Economics from the of International Relations in the University of Virginia in 1979, his Masters Department of Social Sciences at the in Environmental Sciences from Rutgers United States Military Academy at West University in the Spring of 1989, and his Point, New York. He later served as an Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences from assistant professor of Arabic in the Rutgers in 1992. His areas of expertise Department of Foreign Languages. include industrial ecology, sustainable Following his assignment at West Point, engineering, earth systems engineering Amerine worked as a strategist at the and management, and emerging

11 United States Pacific Command where science from Columbia University (2000) he focused on military policy issues and Sciences Po (France, 1999). related to China and the Pacific. He was then assigned to the Pentagon where GREG he led a team of strategists supporting BARKER the Army Staff. Amerine retired in 2015. Described by SÉVERINE the New York AUTESSERRE Times as “a filmmaker of Severine artistic and political consequence,” Autesserre is an award-winning documentarian Greg expert in war, peace, Barker looks for strong personal peacebuilding, narratives that illuminate the peacekeeping, humanitarian aid, and complexities and moral ambiguities African politics. She currently work of global politics and war. His films as an Associate Professor of Political include HBO’s Manhunt, about the Science, specializing in international hunt for Osama bin Laden, (Sundance relations and African studies, at Barnard premiere, Emmy® for Outstanding College, Columbia University (USA). Documentary Special), Homegrown: The Counter-Terror Dilemma, as well She has written two award-winning as Sergio (Sundance editing award, books and a series of articles. Her 2009), Koran by Heart, and numerous latest book, Peaceland: Conflict films for PBS/Frontline, including the Resolution and the Everyday Politics of acclaimed Ghosts of Rwanda. International Intervention (Cambridge University Press, 2014), examines KEVIN how everyday practices, habits, and narratives influence the effectiveness BARON of peacebuilding interventions on Kevin Baron is the ground. Her previous book, The executive editor Trouble with the Congo: Local Violence of Defense One. and the Failure of International He is also national Peacebuilding (Cambridge University security/military analyst for NBC News Press, 2010), focuses on local violence and MSNBC. Baron has covered the and international intervention in the military, the Pentagon, Congress and eastern part of the Democratic Republic politics for Foreign Policy, National of Congo. She is currently researching a Journal, and Stars and Stripes. He new project that examines successful previously ran investigative projects international contributions to local and for five years at the Boston Globe’s bottom-up peacebuilding. Washington bureau, and cut his Before becoming an academic, muckraking teeth at the Center for Autesserre worked for humanitarian and Public Integrity. Baron is twice a Polk development agencies in Afghanistan, Award winner and former vice president Kosovo, the Democratic Republic of the Pentagon Press Association. of Congo, Nicaragua and India. She He earned his M.A. from George holds a post-doctorate from Yale Washington University and B.A. from University (2007), a Ph.D. in political the University of Richmond. Raised in science from New York University Florida, Baron lives in Northern Virginia (2006), and master’s degrees in with his three sons. international relations and political

12 PETER He is a contributing editor at Foreign Policy and writes a weekly column BERGEN for CNN.com. He is a member of the Peter Bergen Homeland Security Project, a successor is a journalist, to the 9/11 Commission; the Aspen documentary Homeland Security Group; and a fellow producer, vice at Fordham University›s Center on president at New America, CNN national National Security. He has held teaching security analyst, professor of practice positions at the Kennedy School of at Arizona State University, and the Government at Harvard University and author or editor of seven books, three of the School of Advanced International which were New York Times bestsellers Studies at Johns Hopkins University. For and four of which were named among many years he was a fellow at New York the best non-fiction books of the year University’s Center on Law and Security. by the Washington Post. The books He has testified on Capitol Hill on more have been translated into twenty than a dozen occasions about national languages. Documentaries based on security issues. He has a degree in his books have been nominated for two modern history from New College, Emmys and also won the Emmy for Oxford. best documentary in 2013. ELANA In 2011 he published The Longest BROITMAN War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda. Newsweek and Elana Broitman is the Guardian named Longest War as the director of New one of the key books about terrorism America NYC. She of the past decade and it won the has served as the Washington Institute’s $30,000 Gold deputy assistant secretary in the Office Prize for the best book on the Middle of Manufacturing & Industrial Base East. In 2012 he published Manhunt: Policy in the Department of Defense The Ten Year Search for Bin Laden, from and as a senior advisor to Sen. Kirsten 9/11 to Abbottabad. It won the Overseas Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), having spent time in a Press Club award for the best book on technology company, with prior service international affairs. HBO based the film as counsel to the House International Manhunt on the book and it won the Relations Committee. Broitman brings Emmy for best documentary. In 2013 philanthropic experience, having he published Talibanistan: Negotiating worked as senior vice president at UJA- the Borders Between Terror, Politics and Federation. Broitman comes to New Religion, a collection of essays about America from Greenberg Traurig, where the Taliban that Bergen co-edited. she was a shareholder. Broitman’s work In 2014 he published Drone Wars, has focused on cybersecurity, national a collection of essays about drone security, human rights, and refugee warfare that Bergen co-edited. In 2016, issues. She is a graduate of Trinity he published United States of Jihad: University and the University of Texas Investigating America’s Homegrown School of Law and speaks both Russian Terrorists and HBO adapted the book and German. for the documentary film Homegrown: The Counter-Terror Dilemma. Bergen has hosted, produced, or executive produced multiple documentaries for HBO, CNN, National Geographic, and Discovery.

13 ROSA of senior U.S. government positions, including at the Department of State BROOKS in the George W. Bush Administration, As a senior fellow at and was a vice president and senior New America, Rosa fellow at the Center for a New American Brooks works with Security. She attended Williams College the ASU Future of and Columbia University, where she War project, writing about the changing was a Zuckerman and International nature of warfare, the changing role fellow at the School of International and of the U.S. military and need to rethink Public Affairs. She serves as an advisor core assumptions about the laws of to Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the war. She is the author of How Everything World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Became War and the Military Became Council on Decarbonizing Energy, and Everything. A professor at Georgetown the Pew Project on National Security, University Law Center, Ms. Brooks Energy, and Climate. served as Counselor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and as MINA Special Coordinator for Rule of Law and CHANG Humanitarian Policy in the Pentagon from 2009-2011. During the Clinton As CEO of Linking Administration, she also served as a the World, and with senior advisor at the US Department extensive on-the- of State. Ms. Brooks spent four years ground experience as an opinion columnist for theLos including Afghanistan, Somalia, and Angeles Times, and currently writes a Iraq, Mina has experienced first-hand weekly column for Foreign Policy. She the toll conflict and instability takes on is a frequent contributor to other print these vulnerable communities. and TV media outlets as well. Brooks Linking the World’s game-changing received her A.B. from Harvard, a methodology uses the insights master’s degree from Oxford, and a J.D. gleaned from a wide array of civilian from Yale Law School. and military data sets to locate and assist vulnerable communities in SHARON building stability from within. She believes that by sharply focusing BURKE these insights on (PVE/CVE), Linking The Honorable the World and its partners can isolate Sharon E. Burke is root causes of instability, then a senior advisor to coordinate development initiatives New America, where in communities before the situation she focuses on international security becomes desperate; functionally and a new program, Resource Security, removing exploitation points for violent which examines the intersection extremist groups like ISIS, Boko Haram, of security, prosperity, and natural Al-Shabaab, and Al Qaeda. resources. Mina is an acknowledged thought leader who has been published in Before joining New America, Burke distinguished periodicals including served in the Obama Administration as Foreign Policy Journal, Forbes, the the assistant secretary of defense for Huffington Post and as a regular operational energy, a new office that contributor in The Hill. She has worked to improve the energy security addressed assemblies at foreign of U.S. military operations. Prior to her embassies, Center for Peace, the United service at DoD, Burke held a number

14 Nations, the Department of Defense, 2011), also won the 2012 Woodrow Wilson United States Military Academy at West Foundation Award, given annually Point, and NATO. by the American Political Science Association in recognition of the best Mina is an alumnus of the Harvard book on government, politics, or Business School and was selected for international affairs published in the the Harvard John F Kennedy Senior U.S. in the previous calendar year. Executive in National and International Security program. She formerly served Before coming to DU, she taught at as a Fellow with the Center for the Wesleyan University, where she was Study of Civil-Military Operations at West the 2010 recipient of the Carol A. Baker Point, assisting in the development Memorial Prize for excellence in junior of academic programs tied to faculty research and teaching. She humanitarian assistance and disaster has also held visiting appointments at response. Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, Stanford University, On February 11, 2015 Mina was appointed UC-Berkeley, and the University of UN Cross Cultural Ambassador for Maryland. She was an Associate Senior United States UNESCO. UN Educational, Researcher at the Peace Research Scientific and Cultural Organization. Institute of Oslo (PRIO) from 2012-2015, and she is currently co-chair of the ERICA Academic Council at the International CHENOWETH Center on Nonviolent Conflict, a Fellow at the One Earth Future Foundation, a Erica Chenoweth, Councilor at the Peace Science Society Ph.D. is Professor International, and a Term Member at the & Associate Dean Council on Foreign Relations. for Research at the Josef Korbel School of International ANDREA Studies at the University of Denver. An internationally recognized authority on ELLNER political violence and its alternatives, Dr. Ellner joined Foreign Policy magazine ranked her the Department of among the Top 100 Global Thinkers Defence Studies in 2013 for her efforts to promote the at King’s College empirical study of civil resistance. London as a Lecturer in Defence Chenoweth received the 2014 Karl Studies in September 2007. Prior to Deutsch Award, which the International this she lectured for nearly ten years Studies Association gives annually to on International Security Studies and the scholar under the age of 40 who related subjects at the University has made the greatest impact on the of Reading, where she also led the field of international politics or peace Graduate Institute of Political and research. International Studies for three years. In Together with Maria J. Stephan, she 2006/7 she served on the Committee won the 2013 Grawemeyer Award for of the University Association of Ideas Improving World Order, which is Contemporary European Studies presented annually in recognition of (UACES). In 2005 she was a visiting outstanding proposals for creating a lecturer at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes more just and peaceful world order. en Sciences Sociales, Paris. She is also Their book, Why Civil Resistance Works: Programme Leader European Security The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent and Transatlantic Relations, Centre Conflict (Columbia University Press, for Defence and International Security

15 Studies (CDiSS), and Editor-in-Chief Fluent in English, Arabic and Kurdish, of the journal ‘European Security’. Dr. Ambassador Faily was born in Baghdad Ellner received her MA in History from in 1966. He is married to Lameis Faily the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, and is the father of four boys. Munich, and her PhD in Political Science on British Naval Policy, 1970-1990, from EVELYN the Free University of Berlin. FARKAS LUKMAN Dr. Evelyn N. Farkas FAILY is a nonresident senior fellow at the Lukman Faily was Atlantic Council’s ambassador of Iraq Future Europe Initiative, Dinu Patriciu to the United States Eurasia Center, and Brent Scowcroft from July 2013 to Center on International Security. She June 2016, having previously served as served from 2012 to 2015 as deputy Iraq’s ambassador to Japan from June assistant secretary of defense for 2010 to May 2013 and, prior to that, as Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia, responsible an ambassador in the Iraqi Ministry of for policy toward Russia, the Black Foreign Affairs. Sea, Balkans, and Caucasus regions and conventional arms control. Before joining the Iraqi public sector, From 2010 to 2012 she served as Ambassador Faily lived in the United senior advisor to the Supreme Allied Kingdom for 20 years, working in the Commander Europe/Commander, US information technology (IT) sector European Command, and as special for several transnational companies. advisor for the Secretary of Defense During his last 10 years abroad, he for the NATO Summit. Prior to that she held senior management positions was a senior fellow at the American in two American companies, Ceridian Security Project, where she focused Centrefile and then Electronic on stability and special operations, Data Systems, which is now part counterproliferation, and US-Asia of Hewlett-Packard. In addition, he policy. In 2008 to 2009, she served as held consultancy and team-leader executive director of the Commission positions in the IT sector. While living on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass and working in the United Kingdom, Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism, Ambassador Faily was also an active which published the report World at community leader within the large Risk (Random House, 2008). From Iraqi exile community and served as a April 2001 to April 2008, she served as trustee for several nongovernmental a professional staff member of the Iraqi organizations. He played an active Senate Armed Services Committee. role in opposing Saddam Hussein’s Her issue areas included foreign and dictatorship and advocated for defense policy in Asia Pacific, Western democracy and rule of law in Iraq. Hemisphere, Special Operations Ambassador Faily holds a bachelor’s Command (policy and budget of science degree in mathematics oversight), foreign military assistance, and computer science from Britain’s peace and stability operations, the Manchester Metropolitan University, military effort to combat terrorism, as well as a master’s in business counternarcotics programs, homeland administration in technology defense, and export control policy. management and a postgraduate From 1997 to 2001 Farkas was a degree in computing for commerce and professor of international relations at industry.

16 the US Marine Corps Command and A graduate of the Universities of Staff College. She served in Bosnia NSW, Melbourne and Kent, he was with the Organization for Security and appointed Director of the Australian Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in 1996 to Centre for the Study of Armed Conflict 1997, and was an election observer in and Society (ACSACS) in July 2014 Afghanistan in 2009. She has published and commissioned to produce a 50- numerous journal articles and opinion year commemorative history of the pieces and Fractured States and partnership between the University of U.S. Foreign Policy: Iraq, Ethiopia, NSW and Defence. and Bosnia in the 1990s (Palgrave/ St. Martin’s Press, 2003, 2008). She He is one of the directors of the PLuS speaks Hungarian and German; has Alliance research project on moral studied French, Spanish, Russian, injury linking ASU, University of New Serbo-Croatian, and Hindi; and appears South Wales and King’s College London. as a commentator on major television Tom Frame is the author or editor of 26 networks, including NBC, CNN, and books including Where Fate Calls: The Fox. Dr. Farkas obtained her MA and HMAS Voyager Tragedy; HMAS Sydney: PhD from The Fletcher School of Law Loss and Controversy; Living by the and Diplomacy and is a member of the Sword: the Ethics of Armed Intervention; Council on Foreign Relations and Aspen The Life and Death of Harold Holt and Institute Socrates Seminar advisory Losing My Religion: Unbelief in Australia. board. TOM BENJAMIN C. FRAME FREAKLEY Lieutenant General Professor Tom Benjamin C. Frame joined the Freakley serves RAN College, HMAS as the Professor Creswell, as a 16- of Practice of Leadership for Arizona year old junior entry cadet midshipman State University and as a Special in January 1979. He served at sea and Advisor to ASU President Michael Crow ashore, including a posting as Research for Leadership Initiatives. Additionally, Officer to the Chief of Naval Staff, and he serves at The McCain Institute for completed a PhD at UNSW Canberra in International Leadership. He recently 1992 on the 1964 HMAS Voyager disaster. retired from the U.S. Army after more He resigned from the RAN to train for than 36 years of active military service, the Anglican ministry in 1993. After and was serving as Commanding parish work in Australia and England he General, U.S. Army Accessions was Bishop to the Australian Defence Command, at the time of his retirement. Force (2001-2007) and then Director of St Mark’s National Theological Centre General Freakley was responsible for (2007-14). worldwide recruiting for the Active Duty and Reserve components as well He has been a Visiting Fellow in the as overseeing the Nation’s Junior and School of Astronomy and Astrophysics College ROTC programs. As an infantry at the Australian National University officer, General Freakley commanded at (2000-2003); Patron of the Armed all levels through division and combined Forces Federation of Australia (2002- joint task force. His operations 06), a member of the Council of the assignments began with 24th Infantry Australian War Memorial (2004-07) and Division (Mechanized), Fort Stewart, judged the inaugural Prime Minister’s Georgia in Operations Desert Shield Prize for Australian History (2007).

17 and Desert Storm, Saudi Arabia, first as British Long Armor/Infantry Course, the the Executive officer, 3rd Battalion-7th Command and General Staff College Infantry then as the S-3 (Operations), and the Army War College. 1st Brigade. From March 2003 to June 2003, he served as Assistant Division General Freakley’s awards include the Commander (Operations), 101st Airborne Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Division (Air Assault), Operation Iraqi Merit, Bronze Star for Valor and ARCOM Freedom, Iraq. From 2003 to 2006 for Valor. He is an Eagle Scout and in he commanded the Army’s largest 2010 was named the Education Policy training institute, the Infantry Center Leader of the Year for the National and School at Fort Benning, Georgia. Association for State Board Educators. In January 2006, as the Commanding He is married to the former Susan General of the 10th Mountain Division French of Woodstock, VA. They have five (Light) and Fort Drum he led the sons, four daughter-in-laws and seven division in Afghanistan serving as the grandchildren. Two sons are serving as Commanding General Combined Joint Infantry Officers. Task Force-76, Operation Enduring Freedom, Afghanistan, where he served ALEXANDER GRAY until February 2007. Alexander Gray assumed duties as In addition to his service with Combined Special Assistant to the President Joint Task Force-76, General Freakley’s and Deputy Director for the Defense joint assignments included Deputy Industrial Base at the White House Director for Operations, National Military National Trade Council on January 20, Command Center, J-3, The Joint Staff, 2017. Washington, D.C. (July 2000–May 2001); Previously, Mr. Gray had been a Member Deputy Director for Joint Warfighting of the U.S. Department of State Capability Assessment, J-8, The Joint “Landing Team” for the Presidential Staff (May 2001–January 2002). Among Transition Team since November 2016, his other assignments, General Freakley focusing on Asia-Pacific issues. commanded 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry, 2d Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort From July to November 2016, Mr. Gray Hood, Texas, from February 1992 to July was Senior Defense Advisor to the 1994. Following graduation from the Trump-Pence presidential campaign, Army War College, he returned to 24th based in New York City, where he ID, where he served as G-3 from June advised the Republican presidential 1995 to August 1996. He then served nominee on defense and national briefly as Deputy Chief of Staff, III Corps, security, particularly the formulation of at Fort Hood, before taking command the candidate’s plan to rebuild the U.S. of 3d Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division military. (February 1997–December 1998). He was the Commander, Operations Group, Prior to joining the Trump campaign, National Training Center, Fort Irwin, Mr. Gray served as Senior Advisor to U.S. California (January 1999 to July 2000). Congressman J. Randy Forbes (R-VA), General Freakley was commissioned a the Chairman of the House Armed Second Lieutenant of Infantry through Services Seapower & Projection Forces the U.S. Military Academy in 1975. He Subcommittee and Co-Chairman of the later earned a Master of Military Art Congressional China Caucus. Mr. Gray and Science degree from the School of handled the Congressman’s portfolio Advanced Military Studies. Additional focused on Asia-Pacific security, trade, military schooling includes the Infantry and broader foreign policy issues. Officer Basic and Advanced Courses,

18 Mr. Gray began his career as a Policy the world’s toughest environments, Analyst with the Bipartisan Policy including Iran, Syria, UAE and Nigeria. In Center, a Washington, DC-based think 2012 she led a multi-partner coalition to tank. launch Against Violent Extremism, the world’s first online network of former Mr. Gray’s writing on defense and violent extremists and survivors of Asia-Pacific issues has appeared in terrorism. Last year, Yasmin launched Foreign Policy, National Review Online, the Redirect Method, a new deployment The Weekly Standard, The National of targeted advertising and video to Interest, Naval War College Review, confront online radicalization. Strategic Studies Quarterly, and the U.S. Naval Institute’s Proceedings. He has Yasmin is a Senior Advisor on Innovation appeared on the nationally-syndicated to Oxford Analytica and Co-Chair of radio program The John Batchelor Show the European Commission’s’ Working and Voice of America Radio, as well as Group on Online Radicalization. She also radio and TV programs in India, Taiwan, serves on the Board of the Tory Burch and Japan, and guest lectured at the Foundation. Outside of geopolitics U.S. National War College, the Institute and technology, Yasmin pursues her of World Politics, and the American passion for art — in 2016, she produced Academy of Strategic Education. the psychedelic papier-mâché art feature film Adam Green’s Aladdin. Named a “Future Leader” by the Foreign Policy Initiative, Mr. Gray was Yasmin received her B.Sc. in Economics educated at the Elliott School of from University College London and International Affairs at The George her M.Sc. in Management from the Washington University and the War London School of Economics and the Studies Department of King’s College University of Chicago Graduate School London. of Business. Yasmin was also a member of the England Junior Women’s National YASMIN Basketball team. GREEN JAKE Yasmin Green is the HARRIMAN Director of Research and Development Jake graduated for Jigsaw, a with distinction technology incubator within Alphabet from the U.S. Naval Inc. focused on solving global security Academy and challenges through technology. She served seven and a half years as an oversees the team’s research and Infantry and Special Operations Platoon business development functions. Commander in the Marine Corps. He Yasmin was previously Head of Strategy led four operational deployments and Operations for Google Ideas, now and was awarded the Bronze Star for Jigsaw. actions in combat. Jake’s experiences convinced him that the “War on Terror” At Google, Yasmin has assumed can’t be won on the battlefield alone; roles as Head of Sales Strategy and the contributing causes of terrorism– Operations for Southern Europe, Middle specifically extreme poverty–must also East, and Africa and Africa Operations be eradicated. Jake left the military and Manager, and prior to joining Google, enrolled at Stanford Graduate School of she consulted for Booz Allen Hamilton. Business to found Nuru International. Yasmin has extensive experience Upon graduation, Jake led a team to living and leading projects in some of launch Nuru’s first project in Kenya.

19 HEATHER Venezuela, analysing the relationships among rebels, criminals and HURLBURT paramilitary groups and exploring their Heather Hurlburt is impact on citizen security. director of the New Models of Policy ROBERT Change initiative JOHNSON at New America’s Political Reform program. Dr. Rob Johnson is the Director of the Hurlburt will lead research into how Oxford Changing policy advocacy is adapting to be Character of War effective in our current environment Centre, Senior Research Fellow of of intense political polarization, and Pembroke College, and Associate of the provide guidance to advocates and Department of Politics and International funders seeking to navigate politics Relations, University of Oxford. effectively on behalf of policy solutions. As Director, Dr. Johnson sets and Previously, she ran the National manages the research agenda, is Security Network, a premier source responsible for the management of for internationalist foreign policy staff, and offers supervision to Visiting messaging and advocacy, held senior Research Fellows, Post-Doctoral positions in the White House and Researchers, and postgraduate State Department under President Bill students. He also advises and delivers Clinton, and worked on Capitol Hill and direct support to government and for the International Crisis Group. She armed forces in defence and security holds degrees from Brown and George matters, transferring his knowledge in Washington Universities. related academic and research fields. His bespoke advisory support is not ANNETTE limited to the United Kingdom, but is IDLER requested by US and European armed forces. The Director is now prominent Dr. Annette Idler is within professional military education, Director of Studies as a member of the advisory panel of at the Changing the Defence Academy of the United Character of Kingdom, lecturer for the Royal College War Centre, Senior Research Fellow of Defence Studies, and as the director at Pembroke College, and at the of ‘insight and understanding’ study Department of Politics and International days and workshops. His former military Relations, and affiliate at the Latin career involved innovations in counter- American Centre, all University of terrorism, but also gives him a clear Oxford. She is also Research Associate understanding of the requirements and at the Centre on Conflict, Development thinking of the armed services. He is and Peacebuilding, Graduate Institute a visiting lecturer in the United States, Geneva. Idler holds a doctorate from Canada, Germany, Austria, Turkey and the Department of International France. Development and St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford. Dr. Johnson has delivered courses in Strategic Studies (Politics and Idler has conducted extensive fieldwork IR) and the History of War (History), in the war-torn and crisis-affected an unusual interdisciplinary borderlands of Colombia, Ecuador and combination for academics. He offers postgraduate supervision on

20 theses concerned with strategy, as in history and recent conflicts, at the well as undergraduate tutorials for a Royal College of Defence Studies. number of colleges, tuition on foreign exchange programmes, lectures THEODORE in the undergraduate International JOHNSON Relations and General History circus and an unexamined lecture series on Theodore Johnson the history of war and strategy. He is an Eric and Wendy delivers teaching to overseas academic Schmidt Fellow at programmes, including those of New America. He Stanford, Harvard and Yale. will write a book about black voting behavior in the post-Obama political Dr. Rob Johnson’s primary research landscape. He is currently a national interests are in strategy, its security research manager and an development, and the history of adjunct professor at the Georgetown war which informs it. His regional University McCourt School of Public interest is in the Middle East, but Policy. Previously, Johnson was a there is a requirement to be familiar commander in the United States Navy with a number of global conflict and where he served in a variety of positions security issues. In light of recent including as a White House fellow strategic challenges, his research and speechwriter for the chairman of has necessarily addressed ‘War the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He has also Amongst the People’, that is, terrorism, written extensively on race, politics, and insurgency and counter-insurgency. He society for publications such as, the has also examined how conflicts can Atlantic, the Washington Post, National be terminated, through transition and Review, the New Republic, and the negotiation. Dr. Johnson is concerned Wall Street Journal. A native of North with the issue of civil-military Carolina, he is a graduate of Hampton relations in the making of strategy, University and Harvard University, and and has examined the problems of holds a doctorate of law and policy from maintaining internal security, the Northeastern University. dynamics of insurrection, and the role of auxiliary forces in a number of IOANNIS other publications. He has published on strategic advantages and risks of “GIANNI” partnering irregular indigenous forces, KOSKINAS and a strategic study of the First World War in the Middle East. He has delivered As a Senior papers on ‘cohesion in combat’, Fellow with the ‘joint operations’, ‘future operating International environment’ and ‘strategy-making in Security program at New America, the twenty-first century’. He convenes Ioannis “Gianni” Koskinas focuses on the UK Strategy Forum and is assisting foreign policy issues with an emphasis the British armed forces in planning for on Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and reconfigured structures and missions the Levant. He is the CEO of the and is focused on the difficulties of Hoplite Group, a company focused on ‘planning future war’ using historical sustainable and innovative solutions examples. He is actively involved in to complex problems, in the most developing the British Army’s new challenging environments and harshest ‘Integrated’ doctrine. He also runs conditions. Previously he was the strategic exercises, including scenario- Executive Vice President of the Asia based learning processes grounded Africa Projects Group and the President of the Global Initiatives Group, focusing

21 on natural resources development the ranks of the Taliban because US and national security projects, promises for replacement crops had respectively. Gianni retired from the failed. U.S. Air Force in 2011 after a twenty-year career in Special Operations. He has In TALIBANISTAN, Mabile documented a B.S. in Biology from the University of for National Geographic the resurgence Connecticut, as well as three Master’s of the Taliban. In Pakistan, she degrees in Operational Art, Strategy, embedded with the Pakistani military and International Relations. He is also in the tribal areas, which straddle a candidate for a Ph.D. in War Studies Afghanistan, on the front lines of their from King’s College, London. war against the Taliban. TALIBANISTAN was nominated for an Emmy in 2011. TRESHA In 2014, Mabile produced and directed a MABILE film for National Geographic, AMERICAN WAR GENERALS. The film tells the Tresha Mabile is stories of the top generals who led the producer of America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. CNN FILMS, LEGION They had joined the Army as America’s OF BROTHERS. The war in Vietnam was winding down and film is about the U.S. Special Forces they had vowed never to make the who were the first on the ground in mistakes their generals had made in Afghanistan after 9/11. It premiered at Vietnam. Nonetheless, these post-9/11 the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and will generals found themselves and their be released in theatres later this year. Army bogged down again in Vietnam- Mabile produced and directed her first like insurgencies in both Iraq and military documentary in 2000, based Afghanistan. on the book BLIND MAN’S BLUFF by Chris Drew and Sherry Sontag. For HAMDULLAH this two-hour film Mabile interviewed MOHIB U.S. submariners and their Russian counterparts about spying on each Before being other under the oceans during the Cold appointed War. Ambassador to the United States, Dr. In the decade and a half following Hamdullah Mohib served as Deputy 9/11, Mabile produced multiple Chief of Staff to H.E. The President of documentaries in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Pakistan. In Iraq, Mabile documented The role included oversight of the in 2003 as the US efforts to install a spokesperson’s office, the office democratic government gave way to of correspondence and diplomatic an insurgency for a film called AFTER communications, protocol office, SADDAM and in 2004 she documented petitions office, and the Presidential as a team of US attorneys helped secretariat. Iraqis build a legal case against Saddam Hussein for a film called THE During his tenure at the Presidential CASE AGAINST SADDAM. In 2005 she Palace, his role involved liaison with produced and directed SADDAM’S REIGN governmental counterparts and OF TERROR for National Geographic. drafting of bilateral and multilateral agreements. Dr. Mohib also engaged In Afghanistan in 2007 for CNN Mabile in the substantive preparation and produced NARCOSTATE in which she implementation of official presidential showed how poppy farmers were joining visits to Azerbaijan, Belgium, China,

22 Germany, India, Iran, Nepal, Pakistan, Division and Director of DGI’s Center Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkmenistan, for Intelligence Research and Analysis United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom (CIRA). Dr. Mulvenon is an expert on the and the United States as part of the Chinese military and Chinese cyber administration’s strategy for geopolitical issues, and has published widely and economic integration. Dr. Mohib led on Chinese military affairs, party- the presidential negotiating team for army relations, C4ISR (command, several inter-government cooperation control, communications, computers, agreements and the formulation of intelligence, and reconnaissance), Afghanistan’s national development and nuclear weapons doctrine and “Realizing Self-Reliance” reform organizations. strategy. Among his professional affiliations, Dr. Dr. Mohib has a PhD and Bachelors Mulvenon is a founding member and degree with honors from Brunel current President of the Cyber Conflict University in the United Kingdom. The Studies Association, is presently a university honored him with an award member of the National Committee for for social and cultural contributions to U.S.-China Relations, and was a term campus, and a research scholarship member of the Council on Foreign to pursue a Doctorate of Philosophy. Relations between 1999 and 2004. He Before joining the government, Dr. is a regular commentator on both the Mohib worked for the American Chinese military and cyber warfare in University of Afghanistan and Intel major U.S. print and TV media. Corporation. Dr. Mulvenon’s book, Soldiers of Dr. Mohib has been an active leader in Fortune (Sharpe, 2001) details the rise civil society among the global Afghan and fall of the Chinese military›s multi- community. He founded the largest billion dollar international business Afghan diaspora youth association empire. His more recent publications in Europe, the Afghan Students include Chinese Industrial Espionage: Association of the UK. He also founded Technology Acquisition and Military and served as Chairman of the Board Modernization (co-authored with for the Afghan Professionals Network William C. Hannas and Anna B. Puglisi; (APN). As part of APN, he started a Routlege, 2013) and “PLA Computer think-tank “Discourse Afghanistan”, Network Operations: Scenarios, and initiated community service Doctrine, Organizations, and Capability,” programming to support special needs (in Roy Kamphausen, et al. Beyond the orphans in Kabul, and to recognize Strait: PLA Missions Other Than Taiwan, achievements of Afghan women. NBR, 2009). Dr. Mulvenon holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University Dr. Mohib is fluent in English, Pashto, of California, Los Angeles, and attended and Dari, with proficiency in Urdu/ Fudan University in Shanghai from 1991- Hindi. He is a published writer on 1992. Afghan politics, as well as on academic research. Dr. Mulvenon has testified before the Commission before, and is the lead JAMES researcher on a forthcoming report MULVENON sponsored by the Commission on cloud computing in China. James Mulvenon is Vice-President of Defense Group Inc.’s (DGI) Intelligence

23 SCOTT key contemporary issues facing our veterans who are establishing their own NEIL veteran owned businesses. In addition Scott Neil is a to his speaking engagements mainly in retired Special Washington, DC and New York City, he Forces Veteran is a regular contributor to major news with significant and media outlets including Fox News, executive, operational and combat Newsmax, Global News, LA Times, experience, having served as a Senior and Bloomberg Business Week. Advisor to several General Officers, Senior Civilian Policy Makers, National DOUGLAS Members of Interagency Task Forces OLLIVANT as well as several House and Senate Committee Members. Following the Douglas A. Ollivant is tragic events of 9/11, he conducted a Managing Partner numerous successful special operation and the Senior combat missions as part of the Vice President of Commander’s In-Extremis Forces, one Mantid International, LLC, a global of the first to lead the Direct Action strategic consulting firm with offices and Counter-Terrorism charge into in Washington, Beirut, Baghdad, Hilla Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Horn of and Basra, since 2012. He has also Africa. Scott survived an IED incident in been appointed an ASU Future of War Iraq and numerous exposures to high Senior Fellow at New America. A retired explosive events. Following treatments Army officer (Lieutenant Colonel), his for TBI and cognitive therapy, Scott last assignment in government was as became a voice in the veteran Director for Iraq at the National Security community as part of his relentless Council during both the Bush and drive to ensure our veterans receive Obama administrations. Ollivant spent the necessary support so needed to one year in 2010-2011 in Afghanistan as ensure a successful re-integration the Senior Counterinsurgency Advisor to into civilian society. Scott has raised a the Commander, Regional Command- significant amount of funds for various East. veteran’s charities with a focus on Prior to his posting at the White House, larger venues in New York City such Ollivant served in Iraq as the Chief as the annual Green Beret Foundation of Plans for Multi- National Division Gala and the Horse Soldier Monument Baghdad in 2006-2007. During this time at Ground Zero. He has developed and he led the planning team that designed launched a transition and resiliency the U.S. and coalition portion of program for the Green Beret Foundation Baghdad Security Plan, the main effort and has been featured in a Veteran’s of what later became known as the Day tribute by Google and the National “Surge.” He spent an earlier Iraq tour 911 Museum. He actively collaborates in 2004-2005 in Baghdad, Najaf, and with the George W. Bush Veterans Fallujah. He also taught politics at the Initiative and Team 43, a collaboration United States Military Academy at West of former veterans and the former Point for three years. President and his staff focused on the power of outdoor recreational sports A graduate of Wheaton College, Ollivant such as mountain biking and golf. holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Scott continues to work with several Indiana University, and is a graduate Veterans Affairs Committees and the of the U.S. Army’s School of Advanced Senate Committee on Small Business Military Studies. He is a frequent and Entrepreneurship championing television commentator on defense

24 and Middle East issues, on networks Warfare Center and School, he served including CNN, PBS, NPR, MSNBC, and as Doctrine Writer/Team Chief, Senior ABC before becoming an exclusive Warrant Officer Advisor/Command contributor with Al Jazeera America Chief Warrant Officer and Company in July of 2015. A life member of the Commander. Council on Foreign Relations, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and American CW4 Pennington entered the Army in Political Science Association, he also November 1985 and completed basic serves in various advisory capacities training and Advanced Individual to Monument Capital Group, Meridian Training as an Infantry Mortar-man Hill Advisors, and TranScan LLC. He at Fort Benning, Ga. He retired on 31 is working on a book manuscript on January 2016 at Fort Bragg, NC. After the topic of Hybrid Warriors, as well completion of the SFQC in 1990, CW4 as various manuscripts on the Iraq Pennington served on Special Forces conflict, 2003-present. Operational Detachment’s-Alpha 576, 566, 595, 593, and 590/5330. From 1996 ROBERT “BOB” to 1999 he served in a joint billet, at Nellis AFB, Nv. as an SF Operations and PENNINGTON Intelligence Sergeant; assisting in the CW4(Ret.) Bob development of Tactics, Techniques, Pennington has and Procedures for Joint Combat served in the United Search and Rescue and other Personal States Army with Recovery mission sets. valor, distinction, professionalism, In 1999, CW4 Pennington was selected exceptionally meritorious service and as a Warrant Officer Candidate and increased leadership responsibility assigned to Fort Rucker, Al., where while serving over 30 years of active he completed the Warrant Officer duty service. Over 26 of those years Candidate Course. After completion were served within the Special Forces of the Warrant Officer Basic Course at Regiment as a “Green Beret.” During Fort Bragg, NC, he was reassigned to his military service, he served with C Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Special distinction in Operation DESERT SHIELD/ Forces Group (Airborne), Fort Campbell, STORM, Operation DESERT SPRING, Ky. While assigned to SFOD-A 595, Operation ENDURING FREEDOM, from 1999-2004, CW4 Pennington’s Operation IRAQI FREEDOM I, II, III, V, Detachment, during OEF, was one and VII and numerous contingency of the first detachments conducting operations throughout the Middle combat operations in Northern East and the Horn of Africa. In this Afghanistan. Identified to President capacity, he has served over five years Bush as the “Horse Soldiers”, ODA-595 of overseas duty; completing seven with Northern Alliance Commander, combat tours, seven operational General Rashid Dostum and his force, tours and numerous exercise/training were credited for the liberation of over missions throughout the Central 50 towns and cities, destroying over 200 Command Area of Operation. During enemy vehicles and bunkers, and killing combat operations, CW4 Pennington or capturing over 5000 Taliban fighters served valiantly as a Weapons Sergeant, during their campaign. Assistant Detachment Commander, Detachment Commander, Company From June 2010-October 2012, Mr. Operations Warrant and S-3 Operations Pennington was reassigned at Fort officer/Regional Operational Control Bragg, NC and served as a Doctrine Element. While serving at the United Writer/Analyst and Team Chief for States Army John F. Kennedy Special Team One, Special Forces Division,

25 Capabilities Directorate of Integration the Armed Forces dealt the most and Doctrine, USAJFKSWCS. In October severe blows to terrorist organizations 2012, after his assignment at doctrine, – FARC and ELN – and Criminal Bands, CW4 Pennington was hand-picked by highly degrading their capabilities, the 1st SWTG Commander and Command structure and leadership, which was Chief Warrant Officer to serve as critical to President Santos’ Peace 1st BN’s Senior Warrant Officer Advisor/ Strategy. This resulted in improved Operations Warrant. security conditions throughout the country and the lowest homicide rate in Bob is a member of the distinguished 35 years. During his tenure, the Armed Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Forces’ equipment and training was Society and received the 2014 St Philip modernized, the welfare of the men and Neri Medal (Bronze Award), presented women in uniform and their families annually to outstanding Special Forces was improved, and a transformation Soldiers for 20 plus years of undying plan for the next 20 years was sacrifice and contributions to the designed. Colombia also became an regiment. As an original Horse Soldier, exporter of security expertise, aiding while assigned to ODA-595 from combat over 60 nations. actions in OEF, he continues to support “Horse Soldier” functions in NYC, DC and Prior to serving as Defense Minister, other parts of the country. Pinzón was Chief of Staff to President Juan Manuel Santos (2010–2011) and CW4 Pennington’s awards and Vice Minister of Defense (2006-2009). decorations include: the Legion of In 2011 the World Economic Forum Merit, the Bronze Star Medal with selected him as a Young Global Leader. Valor device, Bronze Star Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters, Defense In addition to his longstanding Meritorious Service Medal with one dedication to advancing national and Oak Leaf Cluster, Meritorious Service regional defense issues in Colombia, he Medal with two Oak Leaf Cluster, has specialized in economics, public Joint Service Commendation Medal, policy and strategic studies. He has Army Commendation Medal with also held positions as Senior Advisor three Oak Leaf Clusters, Joint Service to the Executive Director of the World Achievement Medal, Army Achievement Bank, Vice President of the Colombian Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters, Banking Association, Assistant Vice Combat Infantryman’s Badge 2nd Award, President of Investment Banking at Master Parachutist Badge, Air Assault Citibank, Private Secretary and Chief Badge, Special Forces Tab. of Staff for the Ministry of Finance, and Economist for Colombia at Citigroup. JUAN CARLOS Pinzón taught economics at the PINZÓN Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and the Juan Carlos Pinzón Universidad de Los Andes. presented his A native of Bogotá, Colombia, Pinzón Letters of Credence received an honorable mention for his to the President of outstanding academic performance the United States on August 3, 2015. while earning a Bachelor of Science Throughout his career, Pinzón has been degree in Economics. He holds a a leader in both the public and private Master of Science in Economics from sectors. Most recently, Pinzón served the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana as Minister of Defense of Colombia for in Bogotá, and he was awarded a nearly four years. Under his leadership, scholarship to receive his Master’s in

26 Public Policy from Princeton University’s 2003-05, which was a number one New Woodrow Wilson School of Public York Times bestseller and a finalist for and International Affairs. Pinzón also the Pulitzer Prize in 2007. His second completed advanced courses in book on that war, The Gamble: General international relations and strategic Petraeus and the American Military studies at Johns Hopkins University, Adventure in Iraq, 2006-08, was and in science and technology at published in 2009. He also wrote Making Harvard University. the Corps, which won the Washington Monthly’s “Political Book of the Year” Ambassador Pinzón was born on award. His first novel, A Soldier’s Duty, December 22, 1971. He is married to Pilar about the U.S. military intervening in Lozano and has two children, Natalia Afghanistan, was published by Random and Juan Pablo. House in June 2001—some four months before the U.S. actually did intervene TOM there. He also has written on defense RICKS matters for the Atlantic Monthly and other publications. Thomas Ricks is Senior Advisor on His most recent book is The Generals: National Security American Military Command from World at New America’s War II to Today. He currently is writing International Security Program. He a book about Churchill, Orwell and the also is a contributing editor of Foreign 20th century. He currently is in the early Policy magazine, for which he writes stages of a book growing out of the the blog “The Best Defense,” which was Future of War project examining the named the best blog of the year by the military transitions that accompanied American Society of Magazine Editors in the industrial revolution, and the 2010, as well as the best military blog by lessons and parallels they might hold Military Reporters & Editors. for our current transition into the information age. Ricks covered the U.S. military for the Washington Post from 2000 through STEPHEN P. 2008. Until the end of 1999 he had the same beat at the Wall Street Journal, RODRIGUEZ where he was a reporter for 17 years. Stephen P. Rodriguez He reported on U.S. military activities in is a fellow with Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, New America’s Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan International and Iraq. He was part of a Wall Street Security program and the founder Journal team that won the Pulitzer of One Defense, an agile network Prize for national reporting in 2000 of market leading, non-traditional for a series of articles on how the U.S. technology companies, venture military might change to meet the new capital firms, and research universities demands of the 21st century. dedicated to scouting advanced Ricks also was part of a Washington software and hardware applications Post team that won the 2002 Pulitzer and enabling their transition into prize for reporting about the beginning the Department of Defense (DOD). of the U.S. counteroffensive against Rodriguez began his career at Booz terrorism. Allen Hamilton shortly before 9/11, supporting their national security He is the author of Fiasco: The practice. In his capacity as an expert American Military Adventure in Iraq, on game theoretic applications,

27 he supported the United States on the Future of War at ASU as well Intelligence Community and DOD as a Senior Fellow at New America. as the lead wargame architect for Previously, he was the founding the Thor’s Hammer, Schriever II/ executive director of the Center for Law III, and Cyber Storm exercises. He and Global Affairs at the Sandra Day subsequently was a vice president O’Connor College of Law, Managing at a venture-backed political risk Director of International Projects at company (Sentia Group) and served as the International Human Rights Law chief marketing officer for a mid-size Institute at DePaul University College international defense corporation (NCL of Law, Senior Fellow at the Orville Holdings). Upon moving to New York, H. Schell, Jr. Center for International he launched One Defense that has Human Rights at Yale Law School, supported the growth of more than 30 Assistant Professor in the Department venture-backed startups as well as the of Anthropology at the University of above-market portfolio performance of Michigan, and a Fellow in the Michigan Scout Ventures, Archangel, Manhattan Society of Fellows. Rothenberg has Venture Partners, and Abundance designed and managed rule of law and Partners. human rights projects in Afghanistan, Iraq, Central Africa and throughout Latin Rodriguez serves on the board America, including programs to train of CENSA, ClearChat, Coin.co, human rights NGOs, aid indigenous WarOnTheRocks, Public Spend Forum, peoples in using international legal GraySpace, and Training Leaders remedies, support gender justice, International. He is also a term member and collect and analyze thousands of at the Council on Foreign Relations first-person narratives from victims of where he also serves on the term atrocities. His books include Memory member advisory council and acts of Silence: The Guatemalan Truth as the President of the Foreign Policy Commission Report, Drone Wars: Initiative’s Leadership Council. He Transforming Conflict, Law, and Policy. received his B.B.A degree from Texas A&M University and an M.A. degree RAJ from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He has published SHAH numerous articles on innovation in Prior to joining the Department of Defense and his DIUx, Raj was the graduate thesis on conflict resolution senior director of in the Caucasus resulted in an strategy at Palo invitation to join Secretary Robert Gates’ Alto Networks, which acquired Morta transition team in late 2006. Rodriguez Security, where he was CEO and Co- resides in Washington, D.C. with his Founder. Prior to this, he was a special wife, Laura, a venture capitalist with assistant in the Office of the Secretary Bulldog Innovation Group and their son, of Defense and began his business Fletcher. career as a consultant with McKinsey & Co. Raj served as an F-16 pilot in DANIEL the United States Air Force where he ROTHENBERG completed multiple combat tours. He holds an AB from Princeton University Daniel Rothenberg and an MBA from The Wharton School. is Professor of He is a member of the Council of Practice, School of Foreign Relations and an affiliate Politics and Global at Stanford University’s Center for Studies and co-director of the Center International Security and Cooperation.

28 ADAM as one of the nation’s 100 leading innovators, by Defense News as one SHARP of the 100 most influential people in Called “the human defense issues, by Foreign Policy to embodiment of their Top 100 Global Thinkers List, and Twitter” by the New by Onalytica social media data analysis York Times, Adam as one of the ten most influential Sharp has forged a distinctive career voices in the world on cybersecurity of more than twenty years at the and 25th most influential in the field intersection of politics, journalism, and of robotics. Peter’s award winning technology. books include Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry, As the former Head of News, Children at War, Wired for War: The Government and Elections at Twitter, Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the Sharp led a team driving creative use of 21st Century; and Cybersecurity and the platform by journalists, government Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to officials, and political campaigns Know. His latest isGhost Fleet: A Novel around the world. He was the longest- of the Next World War, a technothriller serving member of Twitter’s global crossed with nonfiction research, which media partnerships team and its most has been endorsed by people who visible broadcast spokesperson. range from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs to the co-inventor of the Internet Sharp joined Twitter in 2010 as the to the writer of HBO Game of Thrones. company’s first hire in Washington, DC, after previous roles at NBC News, His past work include serving the U.S. Senate, and C-SPAN. After as coordinator of the Obama-08 the 9/11 attacks, he produced and campaign’s defense policy task force, in shot documentary video at “Ground the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Zero” for the City of New York and went and as the founding director of the on to work on projects for the U.S. Center for 21st Century Security and Department of Labor and other clients Intelligence at Brookings, where he of Alan Weiss Productions. was the youngest person named senior fellow in its 100 year history. Sharp is Vice President of the National Academy of Television Arts ANNE-MARIE & Sciences Foundation, a National Press Foundation board member, a SLAUGHTER Term Member of the Council on Foreign Anne-Marie Relations, and a former President of the Slaughter is the bipartisan U.S. Senate Press Secretaries president and CEO Association. He lives in his childhood of New America, hometown of Stamford, CT, with his wife a think ​and action ​tank dedicated to and young daughter. renewing America in the Digital Age. She is also the Bert G. Kerstetter ‘66 PETER W. University Professor Emerita of Politics SINGER and International Affairs at Princeton University. From 2009–2011, she served Peter Warren Singer as director of policy planning for the is Strategist and United States Department of State, Senior Fellow at the first woman to hold that position. New America and an Upon leaving the State Department she editor at Popular Science magazine. He received the Secretary’s Distinguished has been named by the Smithsonian Service Award for her work leading Andrew Moravcsik; they live in Princeton the Quadrennial Diplomacy and with their two sons. Development Review, as well as meritorious service awards from USAID MICHAEL S. and the Supreme Allied Commander SMITH II for Europe. Prior to her government service, Dr. Slaughter was the Dean Michael S. Smith II of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School is a formally trained of Public and International Affairs intelligence analyst from 2002–2009 and the J. Sinclair who specializes Armstrong Professor of International, in the influence operations of Salafi- Foreign, and Comparative Law at Jihadist groups like the Islamic State Harvard Law School from 1994-2002. and al-Qa’ida. From 2011-2016, Smith served as Principal & COO of Kronos Dr. Slaughter has written or edited eight​ Advisory, a firm Smith cofounded with books, including The​ Chessboard and Medal of Honor recipient MajGen James the Web: Strategies of Connection in E. Livingston, USMC (Ret) to provide a Dangerous World (2017),​ Unfinished irregular warfare support services to US Business: Women, Men, Work, national security managers. (Kronos Family (2015), The Idea That Is America: was part of a team awarded an IDIQ by Keeping Faith with Our Values in a SPAWAR Atlantic.) In addition to his work Dangerous World (2007)​, and ​A New with Kronos, from 2010-2013, Smith World Order (2004), ​as well as over 100 served as a contributing expert to the scholarly articles. She was the convener Congressional Anti-Terrorism Caucus, and academic co-chair, with Professor briefing members of Congress on such John Ikenberry, of the Princeton Project topics as the Iranian regime’s relations on National Security, a multi-year with al-Qa’ida and affiliated elements. research project aimed at developing More recently, Smith has served as an a new, bipartisan national security advisory committee member for the strategy for the United States. In 2012 Congressional Task Force on Terrorism she published the article “Why Women and Unconventional Warfare, briefing Still Can’t Have It All,” in the Atlantic, the task force’s chair on threats to which quickly became the most read US/allied interests posed by terrorist article in the history of the magazine groups active in the Syrian Jihad. During and helped spawn a renewed national 2016, Smith served as a guest lecturer debate on the continued obstacles to for Johns Hopkins University’s graduate genuine full male-female equality. intelligence studies program, and a Dr. Slaughter is a contributing editor featured presenter at counterterrorism to the Financial Times and writes a bi- and law enforcement conferences. Prior monthly column for Project Syndicate. to forming Kronos, Smith served as a She provides frequent commentary for research fellow at the NEFA Foundation, both mainstream and new media and a nonprofit institute engaged in both curates foreign policy news for over field and online investigations targeting 140,000 followers on Twitter. Foreign al-Qa’ida and affiliated movements. Policy magazine named her to their annual list of the Top 100 Global Thinkers in 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012. She received a B.A. from Princeton, an M.Phil and D.Phil in international relations from Oxford, where she was a Daniel M. Sachs Scholar, and a J.D. from Harvard. She is married to Professor

30 JACKIE REBECCA J. SPACE WOLFE Jackie Space is Dr. Rebecca J. a Silicon Valley Wolfe is a leading entrepreneur expert on political who focuses on violence, conflict solving national security problems. and violent extremism. Currently, she is A systems engineer by training, she the Director of Mercy Corps’ Peace and seeks understanding of the structural Conflict team, where she has developed and conceptual relationships inside and supported programs in various systems and how they can be “hacked” countries across Africa, the Middle East, to produce optimal solutions cheaper Central and South Asia, Southeast Asia and more efficiently. Her background is and Latin America. Dr. Wolfe is able to in military space systems development draw on her practitioner and academic but her work is multi-disciplinary backgrounds to effectively research spanning across technology domains. important development issues and As the first employee and now Partner communicate to multiple audiences. of BMNT, she helped create Hacking for Dr. Wolfe has taught at Princeton Defense (H4D) — a technology solution University’s Woodrow Wilson School for platform developed on the battlefields Public and International Affairs and at of Iraq and Afghanistan, infused with the Wagner School for Public Service at the “Lean Startup” methodology, New York University. She received her and then applied to national security PhD in Social Psychology from Harvard problems. H4D is now offered through University. BMNT to national security agencies, military organizations, and through the DAVID H4D 501c3 to university programs at WOOD Stanford, Georgetown, and University of California San Diego. David Wood is the author of What Have She is a founding partner of BMNT We Done, a book Capital that provides early stage on moral injury, the investment to companies developed effects of war on those who fought in for the commercial market with Iraq and Afghanistan, and on civilians applications relevant to national at home who sent them. It will be security. Their most recent investment published by Little, Brown in 2016. A is with Savonix – a research-based, staff correspondent for the Huffington digital tool that delivers state-of-the-art Post, he won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize cognitive performance assessment. for National Reporting for a series on Savonix works with leading universities the severely wounded of those wars. and top health care companies in He is a former conscientious objector clinical care and clinical trials. who has covered the military and wars Jackie has a B.S. in Behavioral Sciences since 1977 as a staff correspondent from the U.S. Air Force Academy and for Time magazine, the Los Angeles an M.S. in Systems Engineering from Times, Newhouse News Service, and Loyola Marymount University. Her other publications. interests include snowboarding, scuba diving, surfing, anime and the impact of emerging technology on human behavior and systems.

31 REED Global Engagement Center (GEC), US Department of State. WOOD Prior to joining government, Dr. Dr. Reed Wood is an Younis served as Scientist at Argonne Associate Professor National Laboratories, assigned in the School of to the Department of Homeland Politics and Global Security as Senior Adviser for Studies and a Faculty Affiliate of the Strategic Engagement in the Office Center on the Future of War at Arizona for Community Partnerships. During State University. He received a Ph.D. his tenure, Younis participated in the (2010) in Political Science from the development of Countering Violent University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Extremism interagency program and a B.A. (2001) in History and Human development for the Los Angeles Rights Studies from the University of region through partnerships between North Carolina-Asheville. His research law enforcement, mental health broadly focuses on political violence, providers, and local government. From conflict processes, and human rights, 2012/13 – 2015/16, Younis served and he teaches courses on insurgency as Adjunct Assistant Professor and terrorism, gender and conflict, and International Ambassador for human rights, and international politics. Global Ethics and Social Justice at Dr. Wood’s current research projects The Paulo Freire Democratic Project investigate the causes and implications in the College of Educational Studies of women’s participation in armed at Chapman University. Younis resistance movements, the influence holds a Ph.D in the Philosophy of of female representation in national Education (Critical Pedagogy) and is legislatures on peace durability and the 2016 recipient of the James L. conflict resolution, and the influence of Doti Outstanding Graduate Student development and other forms of foreign Award, the highest academic honor aid on patterns of violence during for graduate students at Chapman civil conflicts. He is the co-creator of University. His dissertation, American the Women in Armed Rebellion Dataset Muslim Conscientização: A Philosophy (WARD). This novel dataset includes for Liberation, explores the process of information on the prevalence of Islamic legal reform in the development female combatants in some 200 rebel of American Muslim critical movements active between 1979 and consciousness. Younis also holds a 2009 as well as other information on Juris Doctor from Washington & Lee women’s participation in organized School of Law (Lexington, VA, 2004). violent rebellions. I also co-manage the Political Terror Scale (PTS), which Dr. Younis served as a Senior Consultant is an annually updated index of state for the Gallup Organization and violations of physical integrity rights. Senior Analyst for the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies from 2007 to 2012. He AHMED led the construction and deployment YOUNIS of the Silatech Index, the largest survey research study on youth employment Dr. Ahmed Younis in the Middle East and North Africa. is the Principal In 2009, 10, 11, he was named as one Deputy Special of the 500 Most Influential Muslims Envoy & Coordinator globally. In 2011 and 2012, Arabian and Principal Deputy Assistant Business Magazine named Dr. Younis Secretary of State (PDAS) with the as one of the “Power 500” of the Arab

32 world and one of the 500 Most Famous Arabs in the world. Younis is author of Gender Justice: The Situation of Women and Girls After the Arab Spring (Harvard International Review – Feature), and the author of American Muslims: Voir Dire [Speak the Truth] (MVI -2002), a post-Sept. 11 look at the reality of the debate surrounding American Muslims and their country. Younis is also a coauthor of The Role of Entrepreneurship & Job Creation in US-Muslim Relations (Brookings, US Islamic World Forum 2011). As part of his Gallup portfolio, from January 2009 to June 2011, Dr. Younis served as Director of Strategic Partnerships and Communications for Silatech, a youth employment initiative to promote large-scale job creation in the Middle East and North Africa founded by Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, of Qatar.

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