Mike Watson

Former Fellow

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Mike Watson was a fellow and deputy director of Hudson Institute’s Center for Strategy and American Statecraft.

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Biography

Mike Watson was a fellow and deputy director of Hudson Institute’s Center for Strategy and American Statecraft. His research focused on America’s competitive advantages against foreign adversaries and the historical roots of American foreign policy and strategic thought.

He holds a BA in history from the University of Virginia and an MA in security policy studies from George Washington University. 

 

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May 2025
Past Event
US-China Rivalry in the Middle East Conference
Featured Speakers:
Senator Ted Cruz
Congressman Kevin Hern
Elliott Abrams
Michael Doran
Mary Kissel
Bernard Haykel
Joshua Meservey
John Lee
Aaron MacLean
Ray Takeyh
Thomas J. Duesterberg
Jonathan Hessen
Joel Scanlon
Jason Hsu
Dan Blumenthal
Michael Sobolik
Garrett Exner
Ilan Berman
Mike Watson
Moderators:
Liel Leibovitz
Zineb Riboua
Ethan Gutman
Adhwaa Alsaleh
Daniel Samet
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22
May 2025
Past Event
US-China Rivalry in the Middle East Conference

Former policymakers and leading national security experts will join Hudson to assess how China’s growing influence is reshaping the regional order—and how the US should respond.

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Featured Speakers:
Senator Ted Cruz
Congressman Kevin Hern
Elliott Abrams
Michael Doran
Mary Kissel
Bernard Haykel
Joshua Meservey
John Lee
Aaron MacLean
Ray Takeyh
Thomas J. Duesterberg
Jonathan Hessen
Joel Scanlon
Jason Hsu
Dan Blumenthal
Michael Sobolik
Garrett Exner
Ilan Berman
Mike Watson
Moderators:
Liel Leibovitz
Zineb Riboua
Ethan Gutman
Adhwaa Alsaleh
Daniel Samet
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16
May 2024
Past Event
Planning to Win: An Analysis of US Strategy | Political Studies Policy Certificate Program
Featured Speakers:
Mike Watson
Peter Campbell
Rachel Mackey
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16
May 2024
Past Event
Planning to Win: An Analysis of US Strategy | Political Studies Policy Certificate Program
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Featured Speakers:
Mike Watson
Peter Campbell
Rachel Mackey
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Javelin anti-tank missiles are seen at the Lockheed Martins Pike County Operations facility in Troy, Alabama, on May 3, 2022. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images)
Can the Military Rebuild Itself?
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US State Secretary John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on January 14, 2015, in Geneva. (Rick Wilking/AFP via Getty Images)
The Cost of Obama’s Foreign Policy
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A journalist takes a photo of a live feed of Xi Jinping speaking at the opening ceremony of the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing, China, on May 14, 2017. (Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images)
A journalist takes a photo of a live feed of Xi Jinping speaking at the opening ceremony of the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing, China, on May 14, 2017. (Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images)
The Middle Kingdom’s Media Blitz
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Members of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) with 7th Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Airborne Brigade, disembark an MV-22B Osprey assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 265 during Keen Sword 23 at Camp Ainoura, Japan, Nov. 16, 2022. Keen Sword is a biennial training event that exercises the combined capabilities and lethality developed between the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, III Marine Expeditionary Force, and the Japan Self Defense Force (JSDF). This bilateral field-training exercise betwe
Members of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force disembark from a US Marine Corps MV-22B Osprey as part of joint military drill Operation Keen Sword in Kumamoto, Japan, on November 16, 2022. (Marine Corps photo by Justin Marty)
Germany Shirks Its Defense Pledge, Imperiling the Asia "Pivot"
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Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) Hyūga-class helicopter destroyer JS Hyūga (DDH 181) launches an MH-60J Seahawk helicopter during training. Operating as part of U.S. Pacific Fleet, units assigned to Carl Vinson and Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Groups, America and Essex Amphibious Ready Groups, alongside JMSDF, are conducting training to preserve and protect a free and open Indo-Pacific region. (Photo by Intelligence Specialist 1st Class Jeremy Faller)
Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer JS Hyūga launches an MH-60J Seahawk helicopter during training in the Philippine Sea on January 21, 2022. (DVIDS photo by Jeremy Faller)
Japan Abandons Pacifism
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