The Strategic Uses of Ambiguity in Cyberspace
The Strategic Uses of Ambiguity in Cyberspace. Speaker: Libicki, M. (Naval Academy). Date: July 2016. Martin Libicki (Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley 1978) holds the Richard Keyser Distinguished Professor of Cyber Studies at the U.S. Naval Academy. He wrote three commercially published books, Cyberspace in War and Peace (USNI Press, forthcoming autumn 2016), Conquest in Cyberspace: National […]
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Identifying Predictive Gray Zone Indicators
Identifying Predictive Gray Zone Indicators Through People’s Values. Speaker: MacNulty, C. (DoD Consultant). Date: July 2016. Christine MacNulty has forty years experience as a consultant in long-term strategic -planning for concepts as well as organizations, futures studies, foresight, and technology forecasting, technology assessment and related areas, as well as socio-cultural change. For the last twenty […]
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Managing the Gray Zone is a Gray Matter Challenge
Managing the Gray Zone is a Gray Matter Challenge. Speaker: Monroe, M. (Army University of Foreign Military and Cultural Studies). Date: July 2016. From 03/28 to 06/03/2016 15 students participated in a nine-week Command and General Staff College Red Teaming elective. In the final exercise the class spent seven days studying gray zone concepts and […]
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Countering Adversaries without going to War
The Power to Coerce: Countering Adversaries without going to War. Speaker: The Honorable David C. Gompert (Naval Academy, RAND). Date: July 2016. The Honorable David C. Gompert is currently Distinguished Visiting Professor at the United States Naval Academy, Senior Fellow of the RAND Corporation, and member of several boards of directors. Mr. Gompert was Principal […]
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Strategic Communication and the Gray Zone
Strategic Communication and the Gray Zone: The Holy Trinity of Narrative, Ideology and Framing. Speaker: Ruston, S. (Arizona State). Abstract Date: June 2016. Arizona State University’s Center for Strategic Communication conducts research on strategic communication challenges in the public sector, and has a long history of contribution to USG and DOD efforts in understanding narratives […]
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Cognitive Maneuver in the Operating Environment
Cognitive Maneuver. Speaker: Warburg, R. (USASOC). Date: June 2016. COL(Ret) Robert A. Warburg retired on 10/01/2014 after 30 years of service. He is currently the Director, G-9, (Concepts, Experimentation, Science and Technology and Capability Integration and Analysis Directorate’s) at the U.S. Army Special Operations Command (USASOC), Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The G-9 Directorate manages the […]
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The Economics of China’s Competitive Strategy
The Economic Elements of China’s Competitive Strategy. Speaker: Brig Gen (Sel) Rob Spalding (Joint Staff). Date: June 2016. Brig Gen (Sel) Rob Spalding is the Chief, China, Mongolia, Taiwan Division, Deputy Directorate for Politico-Military Affairs – Asia, Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate, Joint Staff, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C. As Division Chief, he directs activities and […]
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Lawfare – Using/Misusing Law to Achieve Objective
Lawfare. Speaker: Kittrie, O. (Defense of Democracies). Date: June 2016. Orde Kittrie is a Professor of Law at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He is a leading expert on nonproliferation law and policy with a focus […]
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Regaining Strategic Initiative in the Gray Zone
Outplayed: Regaining Strategic Initiative in the Gray Zone. Speaker: Freier, N. Date: June 2016. INTO THE NEW GRAY ZONE U.S. competitors pursuing meaningful revision or rejection of the current U.S.-led status quo are employing a host of hybrid methods to advance and secure interests that are in many cases contrary to those of the United […]
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