I should him in the interest of full disclosure, acknowledge that she happens to be my wife. But let me reassure you. [applause] there will be no softball questions. I want to begin with a quotation. , theis a first, actually first time we ever appeared on stage they put it off and put it off. , where the two sons of hoover fellows to be bred in captivity. [laughter] i want to begin on a more serious note the quoting from one of the grandmasters of strategic thought and american foreignpolicy. Kissinger, who for a man who just turned 96, has an astonishingly acute grasp of the issues we will be discussing this afternoon. He has written on Artificial Intelligence and made the following observation. The pervasiveness of Network Communications and the social, financial, and military sectors has revolutionized vulnerabilities. Outpacing most rules and regulations from and indeed about the technical complication of regulators has created the state of nature, the escape from which provided t
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At this time, let me introduce the participants in todays discussion. We have a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution. She served as a minister to the dutch parliament. Focused parliament, she on furthering the integration of nonwestern immigrants into dutch society. Larry diamond is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. Years, hehan six directed fsi center where he now leads the program on democracy and its Global Digital policy incubator. Was the 26th assistant to the president for National Security affairs and served as a commissioned officer in the u. S. Army for 34 years before retiring in june, 2018. The moderator for todays panel is neil ferguson. Hooverior fellow at the institution and a senior fellow for the European Studies at harvard. Please join me in welcoming this esteemed group to the stage. Thank you,ernoon, tom for that introduction and thank you for joining us on such a beautiful afternoon when you could be outside playing frisbee. Im extremely excited to be
whole series was a work that we recently published in the european journal of international relations that talks about the use of war gaming for data collection for looking at data and for thinking about how we and put together policies and then how we use social science to help inspire our war game design and analysis. so we hope you can join us for all three of the the webinars. and this first one we re gonna be focusing on wargaming as a historical tool as an archive and as data and our second series which will be moderated by eric lynn greenberg is going to be looking more at can working design and how social science and approaches or can be used and when it comes to war game design and analysis. and then our final serial final of the series i get to host and it ll be with and some of our great folks have been working on these issues in national security and we ll bridge the gap about how some of the lessons that we ve taken from social science might be applied or not app
Commander, general john titan. He looked at the nuclear interviews with past and present included the emergence of new and complex threats are on the rise. Potential threats include those from russia, china, iran and north korea. This is little more than one hour. Thank you very much. Seated. If it is my pleasure to introduce vice adam all of the u. S. Navy in his a submariner can [inaudible] use since his current post of the 16th president of National Defense university this past december he will provide welcoming remarks. Thank you, john. General heitman, mr. Trachtenberg, distinguished guest, ladies investment, good morning. Welcome to the National Defense university. It is my great pleasure to welcome you to this policy seminar in the 2018 Nuclear Posture review. As president im pleased and proud that we are able to help facilitate discussion and debate on the npr. As a career summering officer and former commander of several strategic courses is particularly satisfying for me to b