FAOA DISTINGUISHED LUNCHEON FORUM (Virtual) - JUNE 10, 2021 

Great Power Competition in the Transatlantic

The FAO Association is proud to partner with CEO and Cipher Brief Publisher Suzanne Kelly to host a Panel of experts to discuss dynamics and future of a GPC Foreign Area Officer.

The Forum includes a "Scowcroft Perspective" provided by Barry Pavel, Senior Vice President and Director of Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council.

  

Other distinguished Panel guests include:

As we get closer to June 10, we will release the video call-in details on our FAOA LinkedIn page and will also be distributed to our email FAOA membership list.

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The Cipher Brief is also offering a special discount for FAO members.  Click on information below for more details.  You will need member codes for both organizations.

What is the Great Power Competition?

It has been one year since the Congressional Research Service (CRS) published a report on Intelligence, Reconnaissance, and Surveillance Design for Great Power Competition (GPC) that questions America’s military prowess and standing in areas where traditionally the United States and allies have been the leader – both economically and for security in Europe. 

A renewed GPC report was released in March 2021 with the focus on post-Cold War era of international relations—which began in the early 1990s, oftentimes referred to as the unipolar moment (with the United States as the unipolar power)— this moment showed initial signs of fading in 2006-2008, and by 2014 had given way to a fundamentally different situation of renewed GPC with China and Russia and challenges by these two countries and others to elements of the US -led international order that has operated since World War II. 

The renewal of GPC competition profoundly changed the conversation about US defense issues from what it was during the post-Cold War era: Counterterrorist operations and US military operations in the Middle East—which were moved to the center of discussions of US defense issues following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and which continue to be conducted—are now a less-dominant element in the conversation.

For more background, please click on image above and each CRS report below:

• Renewed Great Power Competition: Implications for Defense—Issues for Congress | March 4, 2021
• Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Design for Great Power Competition | June 4, 2020

  

Urgent: Replacing the Inherited US National Defence ‘Strategy’

Gregory D Foster | RUSI Commentary, 13 May 2021

The FAO Association would like to thank some of our most recent speakers from left to right:  Ms. Heidi Grant, former Director of the Defense Technology Security Administration (DTSA) and current Director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) ; United States Army Lieutenant General Charles Hooper, former Director of DSCA; and Mr. Michael Miller, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Regional Security and Arms Transfers (PM/RSAT).

                            

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NDU Foreign Student Sponsors Needed:  The International Student Management Office of the National Defense University, located on historic Fort McNair, is looking for potential volunteers amongst the DC community to participate in the NDU Community Sponsorship Program.  Annually, over 100 Senior Officers from over 50 different countries attend the National Defense University to obtain their Master's Degree from the National War College, the Eisenhower School, and the Center for International Security Affairs. Throughout the academic year, International Fellows will learn about American government institutional, political processes and economic systems. They will also learn about American society and culture, our neighborhoods and families via the International Fellows' Community Sponsorship Program. Officers attending NDU will arrive on 1 July.

For over 30 years the Sponsorship Program has been helping foreign military officers adjust to and enjoy their time in the United States. Being a sponsor is not designed to be an interruption of but rather an integration into your normal schedule; you are not expected to set up special functions for your international guest but rather include to officer in those things that you and your family do ordinarily. Being a sponsor is not a monetary commitment, you are not providing the officer with financial support or housing, but instead provide cultural support and friendship. Sponsors are also invited to certain events hosted at NDU throughout the year.                       

Those who decide to participate in the Sponsorship Program play an invaluable role for the International Fellows, sharing first hand their knowledge of American culture-and in return- making new friends and learning new things about the world we live in. This is truly a special opportunity to participate in a vital American foreign policy initiative.

If you would like to learn more about this opportunity, please feel free to contact Laura Garvie at laura.m.garvie.civ@ndu.edu or 202-685-0594. For more insight into the role of a sponsor please check out the program's website at https://ismo.ndu.edu/Incoming-Students/ISMO-Courses-Programs/Sponsor-Program