CounterTerrorism & Homeland Security

Please join the CSIS International Security Program and the U.S. Naval Institute for a Maritime Security Dialogue event featuring Admiral Harry Harris Jr., USN (Ret.), former Commander, U.S. Pacific Command. ADM Harris will sit down with Dr. Seth G. Jones, CSIS senior vice president and director of the International Security Program, to discuss the latest developments with AUKUS and implications for the maritime industrial base. In September 2021, the three countries announced their decision to support Australia acquiring conventionally-armed, nuclear-powered submarines. In March 2023, they announced a pathway to achieve this capability, including a trilaterally-developed submarine based on the United Kingdom’s next-generation design. But there are numerous questions that remain. For example, what are the major challenges that lie ahead? And how might they be addressed?The discussion will feature opening remarks from VADM Pete H. Daly, USN (Ret.), chief executive officer and publisher, U.S. Naval Institute, and Dr. Charles Edel, CSIS’s Australia chair. The Maritime Security Dialogue series brings together CSIS and the U.S. Naval Institute, two of the nation’s most respected non-partisan institutions. The series highlights the unique challenges facing the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard from national level maritime policy to naval concept development and program design. Given budgetary challenges, technological opportunities, and ongoing strategic adjustments, the nature and employment of U.S. maritime forces are likely to undergo significant change over the next ten to fifteen years. The Maritime Security Dialogue provides an unmatched forum for discussion of these issues with the nation’s maritime leaders.Adm. Harris served in every geographic combatant command region and participated in the following major operations: Achille Lauro terrorist hijacking incident, Attain Document III, Earnest Will, Desert Shield/Desert Storm, Southern Watch, Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom, Willing Spirit, and Odyssey Dawn. Harris’ staff assignments included aide to Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Japan; speechwriter for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS); three tours on the Navy staff, including Deputy CNO for Communication Networks (OPNAV N6); assistant to the CJCS where he was the chairman’s direct representative to the secretary of state and the U.S. roadmap monitor for the Mid-East Peace Process.This event is made possible by support from HII.———————————————A nonpartisan institution, CSIS is the top national security think tank in the world. Visit www.csis.org to find more of our work as we bring bipartisan solutions to the world’s greatest challenges.Want to see more videos and virtual events? Subscribe to this channel and turn on notifications: https://cs.is/2dCfTveFollow CSIS on:• Twitter: www.twitter.com/csis• Facebook: www.facebook.com/CSIS.org• Instagram: www.instagram.com/csis/

Please join the Center for Strategic and International Studies on Wednesday, March 22, 2023, for a virtual Smart Women, Smart Power conversation with Gayle E. Smith, the CEO of the ONE Campaign. As we pass the three-year mark since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr. Kathleen McInnis, Director of the Smart Women, Smart Power Initiative, will sit down with Gayle to discuss her role in leading the U.S. effort to end the global pandemic. Additionally, Gayle will discuss her priorities at the ONE Campaign, including her take on hard and soft power and how it interrelates with gender.Before her current role, Gayle served as a top advisor on international issues for three American presidents and is one of the world’s leading experts on global development and global health security. She brings unparalleled expertise and an extraordinary network of relationships across the African continent and around the world. In 2021, Smith took on a temporary role at the request of the Secretary of State and served as the U.S. State Department’s Coordinator for Global COVID Response & Health Security.Prior to joining the ONE Campaign, Smith served as the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development; served as Special Assistant to President Obama and Senior Director for Development and Democracy at the National Security Council; founded the Sustainable Security Program at the Center for American Progress and co-founded the ENOUGH project and the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network. Additionally, she served as Special Assistant to President Clinton and Senior Director for African Affairs at the NSC in the late 1990s, and prior to that lived and worked in Africa for 20 years, working as a journalist and with NGOs.This event is made possible through support from Citi.———————————————A nonpartisan institution, CSIS is the top national security think tank in the world. Visit www.csis.org to find more of our work as we bring bipartisan solutions to the world’s greatest challenges.Want to see more videos and virtual events? Subscribe to this channel and turn on notifications: https://cs.is/2dCfTveFollow CSIS on:• Twitter: www.twitter.com/csis• Facebook: www.facebook.com/CSIS.org• Instagram: www.instagram.com/csis/

Please join the CSIS Missile Defense Project and Reagan Institute for a conference commemorating the 40th anniversary of President Reagan’s 1983 speech on the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). We will discuss the broad impacts of SDI, how missile defense has evolved since then, and future U.S. missile defense strategy, programs, and budgets. Introduction: 9:00-9:05am Speaker to be announced Congressional Perspective: 9:05-10:00am Tom Karako (moderator), CSIS Senior Fellow Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO, 5th District), Chairman of the Strategic Subcommittee, House Armed Services Committee Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA, 6th District), Ranking Member of the Strategic Subcommittee, House Armed Services CommitteeSDI: Historical and Policy Reflections: 10:10-11:15am Anthony Eames (moderator), Director of Scholarly Initiatives, Reagan Foundation Kiron Skinner, Former Director of Policy Planning, U.S. State Department; Taube Professor of International Relations and Politics, Pepperdine School of Public Policy Ken Adelman, Former Director, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Peppi DeBiaso, Former Director, Office of Missile Defense Policy, U.S. Department of Defense Aaron Bateman, Assistant Professor of History and International Affairs, George Washington University The Missile Defense Agency’s 2024 Budget Request: 11:25am-12:40pm Tom Karako (moderator), CSIS Senior Fellow Vice Admiral Jon Hill, Director, U.S. Missile Defense AgencyLunch Break: 12:40-1:00pmAfternoon Introduction: 1:00-1:05pm Mr. Roger Zakheim, Director of the Ronald Reagan InstituteThe Industrial Base for Missile Defense: 1:05-2:00pm Anthony Eames (moderator), Director of Scholarly Initiatives, Reagan Foundation John Stetson, Senior Technical Fellow, Lockheed Martin Corporation Tay Fitzgerald, President of Strategic Missile Defense, Raytheon Missiles & Defense Lisa Brown, Vice President & PM for Next Generation Interceptor, Northrop Grumman Corporation Debbie Barnett, Vice President & Program Director, Boeing CorporationThis event is made possible through general support to CSIS.———————————————A nonpartisan institution, CSIS is the top national security think tank in the world. Visit www.csis.org to find more of our work as we bring bipartisan solutions to the world’s greatest challenges.Want to see more videos and virtual events? Subscribe to this channel and turn on notifications: https://cs.is/2dCfTveFollow CSIS on:• Twitter: www.twitter.com/csis• Facebook: www.facebook.com/CSIS.org• Instagram: www.instagram.com/csis/