Video Event | Battlegrounds: A Book Discussion with H.R. McMaster

November 2020

Past Event

Video Event | Battlegrounds: A Book Discussion with H.R. McMaster

Past Event

Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. Headquarters

November 09, 2020

November 2020

Past Event

1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Suite 400
Washington, DC 20004

Speakers:

Patrick Cronin

Asia-Pacific Security Chair, Hudson Institute

**Please be advised: This event will premiere LIVE on this page at 12:00 p.m. EDT, Monday, November 9.**

Join Hudson Institute for a conversation with Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster, U.S. Army (Ret.) on his new book Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World The discussion will be moderated by Hudson Institute Asia-Pacific Security Chair Patrick M. Cronin.

McMaster will discuss highlights from his book in addressing the need to re-examine how the United States assesses and approaches the diverse list of national security and foreign policy threats facing the country. Have we fallen behind our adversaries in terms of regional and global power or influence? What policies or movements led to the current views of American foreign policy? How must we change our military and political thinking to better confront challenges across the world? The moderated discussion will cover these and other questions.

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Featured Speakers:

Tricia J. Paoletta

Thomas Hazlett

J. Gregory Sidak

Harold Furchtgott-Roth

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Past Event

Transferring Spectrum from the Federal to the Non-federal Domain: The View from NTIA

Join Hudson Institute's Center for the Economics of the Internet for a keynote address given by Tricia Paoletta on the Trump administration's progress in managing and reallocating the electromagnetic radio frequency spectrum from the federal domain.

Featured Speakers:

Tricia J. Paoletta

Thomas Hazlett

J. Gregory Sidak

Harold Furchtgott-Roth

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Featured Speakers:

William Chou

Atsuyoshi Koike

Arvind Krishna

Bill Guidera

Kazumi Nishikawa

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In-Person Event | Hudson Institute

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Featured Speakers:

William Chou

Atsuyoshi Koike

Arvind Krishna

Bill Guidera

Kazumi Nishikawa

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In-Person Event | Invite Only

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Featured Speakers:

Joshua Meservey

President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi ("Irro")

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In-Person Event | Invite Only

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Featured Speakers:

Joshua Meservey

President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi ("Irro")

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In-Person Event | Invite Only

Contested Lebanon: Israel, Iran, and US Strategy in a Fractured State

Featured Speakers:

Ludovic Hood

Hagar Chemali

Joel Rayburn

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In-Person Event | Invite Only

Contested Lebanon: Israel, Iran, and US Strategy in a Fractured State

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