Rebeccah L. Heinrichs

Senior Fellow and Director, Keystone Defense Initiative

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At A Glance:

Rebeccah L. Heinrichs is a senior fellow and director of the Keystone Defense Initiative. She specializes in US national defense policy with a focus on strategic deterrence.

Biography

Rebeccah L. Heinrichs is a senior fellow at Hudson Institute and the director of its Keystone Defense Initiative. She specializes in US national defense policy with a focus on strategic deterrence.

Ms. Heinrichs currently serves as a commissioner on the bipartisan Strategic Posture Commission, which was created in the Fiscal Year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act. She also serves on the US Strategic Command Advisory Group and the National Independent Panel on Military Service and Readiness.

She is an adjunct professor at the Institute of World Politics where she teaches nuclear deterrence theory and is also a contributing editor of Providence: A Journal of Christianity and American Foreign Policy.

Ms. Heinrichs earned her MA in national security and strategic studies from the US Naval War College and graduated with highest distinction from its College of Naval Command and Staff, receiving the Director’s Award for academic excellence. She earned her BA in history and political science from Ashland University in Ohio, was an Ashbrook Scholar, and currently serves as a member of the University's Board of Trustees. She is enrolled at Missouri State University pursuing her doctorate of defense and strategic studies.

She lives in Virginia with her husband and their five children.

Events
07
December 2023
In-Person Event | Hudson Institute
Senator Mike Rounds on the B-21 Bomber and Its Deterrence Mission
Featured Speakers:
Rebeccah L. Heinrichs
Senator Mike Rounds
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07
December 2023
In-Person Event | Hudson Institute
Senator Mike Rounds on the B-21 Bomber and Its Deterrence Mission

Hudson Institute Senior Fellow and Director of the Keystone Defense Initiative Rebeccah Heinrichs will host Sen. Rounds to discuss the B-21’s role in the United States’ twenty-first-century deterrence mission.

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Featured Speakers:
Rebeccah L. Heinrichs
Senator Mike Rounds
29
November 2023
Past Event
The B-21 Raider and Deterring the Two-Pronged Nuclear Threat
Featured Speakers:
Mackenzie Eaglen
Jennifer Bradley
Rebecca Grant
Christopher Bowie
Kari Bingen
Rebeccah L. Heinrichs
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29
November 2023
Past Event
The B-21 Raider and Deterring the Two-Pronged Nuclear Threat
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Featured Speakers:
Mackenzie Eaglen
Jennifer Bradley
Rebecca Grant
Christopher Bowie
Kari Bingen
Rebeccah L. Heinrichs
16
November 2023
Past Event
Making Russia Pay with Senator Jim Risch
Featured Speakers:
Senator James E. Risch
Nate Sibley
Olena Halushka
Rebeccah L. Heinrichs
Chris Socha
Firefighters work to put out a fire at CHP power station after it was hit by Russian missile on October 10, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Photo by Serhii Mykhalchuk/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
16
November 2023
Past Event
Making Russia Pay with Senator Jim Risch

Please join Hudson Institute for a foreign policy address by Senator Jim Risch, ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and leading cosponsor of the REPO for Ukrainians Act.

Firefighters work to put out a fire at CHP power station after it was hit by Russian missile on October 10, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Photo by Serhii Mykhalchuk/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
Featured Speakers:
Senator James E. Risch
Nate Sibley
Olena Halushka
Rebeccah L. Heinrichs
Chris Socha
27
September 2023
Past Event
Fiasco in Kabul: The Untold Story
Featured Speakers:
Jerry Dunleavy
James Hasson
Rebeccah L. Heinrichs
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27
September 2023
Past Event
Fiasco in Kabul: The Untold Story
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Featured Speakers:
Jerry Dunleavy
James Hasson
Rebeccah L. Heinrichs