Past Special Seminars
Flexibility is the Key to Airpower: The Past, Present, and Future of Aerial Refueling
Lieutenant Colonel Derrick McClain
12pm Pye Conference Room (E40-496)
The War in Ukraine: Military, Political, and Economic Lessons for the United States
4-5:30pm National Press Club, Washington D.C.
The Strategic Use and Misuse of Emotions: Lessons from the American Civil War
1-3pm Pye room (E40-496)
The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China
The Hon. Kevin Rudd
President, Asia Society Policy Institute, and Former Prime Minister of Australia
2-3:30 E40-496 and by zoom (MIT only); and streaming on YouTube
Starr Forum: US, Afghanistan, 9/11: Finished or Unfinished Business
2:30-3:45pm virtual webinar. YouTube link below
Accelerating Innovation: University, U.S. Military, and Private Sector Partnerships
4-5:30pm virtual webinar. Link to register is below
2021 Doolittle award presentation
General C.Q. Brown, Jr.
Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force
7-8pm virtual
VIRTUAL EVENT: Starr Forum: Rethinking National Security in the Age of Pandemics
4:30-5:30 virtual event
SSP Roundtable: The International Implications of Covid-19: a first cut
12-1:30 Virtual event
Obama’s "Prague Agenda": Success and Frustration
Steve Fetter
University of Maryland
12-1:30pm E40-496, Lucian Pye Conference Room
Public Support for the Use of Nuclear Weapons in the US, UK, France, and Israel
3-4:30pm E40-496, Lucian Pye Conference Room
Nuclear Deterrence in an Age of Rapid Technological Change
Daryl Press
Associate Professor of Government, Dartmouth College
2-3:30 E40-496, Lucian Pye Conference Room
China's New Strategic Forces: The PLA Rocket Force and the PLA Strategic Support Force: Implications for the United States
Dr. Bates Gill
Professor of Asia-Pacific Strategic Studies with the Australian National University Strategic and Defence Studies Centre and Professor of Asia-Pacific Security Studies at Macquarie University
1-3pm E40-496, Lucian Pye Conf Rm
A Swedish Perspective on the New Baltic Security Environment
3:00-4:30pm E40-496, Lucian Pye Conference Room