The CSIS Smart Women, Smart Power Initiative, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS, and Bridging the Gap are pleased to host the 2021 Future Strategy Forum, an initiative to connect scholars who research national security with its leading practitioners. Future Strategy Forum: National Security and Technology will feature a virtual closing keynote discussion with Rose Gottemoeller on May 11, 2021, in addition to three panels over three days exploring national security and technology, and a war game with Hoover Institution’s Dr. Jacquelyn Schneider.

Rose Gottemoller served as the Deputy Secretary General of NATO from 2016 to 2019. Prior to this she served for nearly five years as the Under Secretary for Arms Controls and International Security at the U.S. Department of State, advising the Secretary of State on arms control, nonproliferation and political-military affairs. While Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control, Verification and Compliance in 2009 and 2010, she was the chief U.S. negotiator of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) with the Russian Federation. Presently, Ms. Gottemoeller is a Payne Distinguished Lecturer at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at the Freeman Spogli Institute, as well as a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution. She will discuss the future of emerging technologies and nuclear weapons in her address.

Moderator:
Beverly Kirk
Fellow and Director for Outreach, International Security Program, and Director, Smart Women, Smart Power Initiative

Guest:
Rose Gottemoeller
Payne Distinguished Lecturer at the Center for International Security and Cooperation
Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution

The CSIS Smart Women, Smart Power Initiative, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS, and Bridging the Gap are pleased to host the 2021 Future Strategy Forum, an initiative to connect scholars who research national security with its leading practitioners. Future Strategy Forum: National Security and Technology will feature a virtual closing keynote discussion with Rose Gottemoeller on May 11, 2021, in addition to three panels over three days exploring national security and technology, and a war game with Hoover Institution’s Dr. Jacquelyn Schneider.

The panel will consider the ways in which emerging technologies are shaping the battlespace and changing the nature of warfare. What are the most important emerging technologies for warfighting? What impact will emerging technologies have on the traditional domains of conflict (e.g. air, sea, and land) and on emerging ones (e.g. space and cyberspace)? Do the benefits and costs of these technologies accrue differently to state and non-state actors, or across political systems? This panel will assess how prepared the U.S. military is to acquire, integrate, and adapt these technologies into warfighting, and how prepared competitors such as China and Russia are able to do the same.