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May 28, 2025 - "Industrial Mobilization - Issues and Solutions"

Christine Michienzi, Ph.D.
Founder and CEO
MMR Defense Solutions, LLC

Wednesday, May 28
12:00pm Eastern US Time - Meet and Greet
12:10pm - 1:45pm Eastern US Time - Talk / Q&A

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Abstract
COVID-19 raised awareness of the fragility of supply chains for both commercial and Department of Defense (DoD) systems.  This was put into greater focus by supply chain issues resulting from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.  But this fragility didn’t happen overnight. Numerous decisions by U.S. industry and government played and continue to play a very large role.  As the U.S. is trying to ramp up production of DoD systems to support both Ukraine and Israel, while simultaneously preparing for a potential conflict in the IndoPacific region, solving these supply chain issues are key to Industrial Mobilization.  This talk will examine some of the issues, including causal effects, and some of the solutions that can be and/or are being applied to mitigate them. 

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Dr. Christine (Chris) Michienzi is a former senior government executive with extensive national and international leadership experience. Her strategic advice and counsel are regularly sought on issues relating to global supply chains and defense industrial base resiliency and security. She has prepared high-level briefings for the President, the National Security Advisor, the Secretary of Defense, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and she regularly briefed Members of Congress and their Staffs.
Today, Dr. Michienzi owns MMR Defense Solutions, LLC, a consulting firm that leverages her deep expertise and brings innovative solutions to help companies successfully address supply chain and technical issues using strategy, policy, and investment approaches. She is a sought-after keynote speaker and panelist (moderator and participant) at national and international conferences and events, and a published author of articles, op-eds, and expert quotes in national news journals - Defense News, Wall Street Journal, etc., as well as a guest on multiple podcasts discussing defense and national security topics.
Dr. Michienzi served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), where she was the Senior Technology Advisor for the Undersecretary of Defense (USD) for Acquisition and Sustainment, advising the USD and other senior DoD leaders on innovative solutions for the design, development, and production of DoD systems, including facilitating technology transitions to provide cutting edge capability to the warfighter. She has extensive technical, strategy, and policy expertise in missiles and munitions, including hypersonics, nuclear, and space systems; microelectronics; and critical chemicals, and the supply chains that manufacture them.
Dr. Michienzi provided technical expertise and strategic and policy guidance on the industrial base and supply chains to the USD and the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Policy (IBP), where she served as the Chief Technology Officer and Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense. She bridged government (U.S. and international) and private sector endeavors as she led the Department’s efforts to rapidly increase industrial base capacity to accelerate the replenishment of weapons systems donated to Ukraine, enabling DoD to donate even more. Dr. Michienzi also utilized her Defense Production Act (DPA) expertise to support Ukraine, Taiwan, COVID response, and other critical national security supply chain efforts.
Dr. Michienzi also served as the USD’s lead for microelectronics and was instrumental to ensuring inclusion of national security requirements and sustainability initiatives in the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) Act authorization and appropriation by collaborating with Congressional members and staffers, as well as serving as the A&S liaison to the National Security Council and the Department of Commerce.
Previously she served in various roles in IBP – ensuring DoD assessed the capabilities, health, and resiliency of DoD supply chains, which the Department relies on for current and future warfighting capabilities, and developed mitigations to address identified risks and issues in all industrial sectors, enhancing Department readiness.
Dr. Michienzi began her DoD career with the Navy, where she served as the missiles and munitions technical expert at the Program Executive Office, Integrated Warfare Systems. She spent nearly two decades at a Navy laboratory, developing new explosives and propellants for DoD weapons systems, for which she holds five patents, and eventually became the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation Department Head, leading over 140 scientists and engineers performing research for Navy weapons systems. She received both the Naval Sea Systems Command Scientist of the Year Award and the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition Scientist of the Year Award for her research achievements.
Most recently, Dr. Michienzi received the Secretary of Defense’s Medal for Civilian Career Service, and she previously received the Secretary of Defense’s Medal for Exceptional Civilian Service.
Dr. Michienzi received her Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), and her Doctorate in Analytical Chemistry, also from UMCP.

June 19, 2025 - A Special Event for Mackinder Forum Fellows

Andrew Lambert
King's College London

Thursday, June 19
12:00pm Eastern US Time

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June 20, 2025 - Title TBD with Kamran Bokhari, New Lines Institute

Kamran Bokhari
New Lines Institute

Friday, June 20
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May 7, 2025 - "Dominance or Retrenchment: Optimizing U.S. Grand Strategy to Counter China"

Michael Sobolik
Hudson Institute

Wednesday, May 7
12:00pm Eastern US Time - Meet and Greet
12:10pm - 1:45pm Eastern US Time - Talk / Q&A

Abstract
As the Trump administration wages a trade war to punish the People’s Republic of China for decades of exploitative economic practices, Washington is divided on how to approach its broader competition with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Everyone agrees the high point of American primacy has passed, but opinions differ on the actual measure of U.S. power, whether a foreign policy of dominance is possible, and whether a grand strategy of retrenchment is advisable. In this context, U.S. policymakers should rely on asymmetric advantages and begin testing Beijing’s strategic weaknesses to distract the CCP from foreign adventurism.

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Michael Sobolik is a senior fellow at Hudson Institute. He specializes in United States–China relations and great power competition with a focus on geopolitics, net assessments, and competitive strategies. He is the author of Countering China’s Great Game: A Strategy for American Dominance (Naval Institute Press, 2024). He is also an advisory board member of Vandenberg Coalition and a contributing editor at Providence: A Journal of Christianity and Foreign Policy. Prior to joining Hudson, Mr. Sobolik served as a senior fellow in Indo-Pacific studies at the American Foreign Policy Council in Washington, DC, where he ran the council’s Indo-Pacific Security Program. He previously served in the United States Senate as a legislative assistant to Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX). Mr. Sobolik has offered testimony several times before Congress, including before the House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the House Natural Resources Committee. His commentary has appeared in the Washington Post, Bloomberg, Reuters, Foreign Policy, Politico, and Newsweek, among others. He has also appeared on PBS, BBC, Fox News, and other outlets. Mr. Sobolik earned a master of international affairs from the Bush School of Government and Public Service and a bachelor of science in political science at Texas A&M University. He lives with his wife and son in Alexandria, Virginia.

May 1, 2025 - "How the Poland and Ukraine Bridge Became Europe’s Defensive Backbone"

Joshua Spero, Ph.D.
Fitchburg State University

Thursday, May 1
12:00pm Eastern US Time - Meet and Greet
12:10pm - 1:45pm Eastern US Time - Talk / Q&A

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The dramatic developments rapidly transforming the transatlantic link’s longevity in real time underscore now, more than ever, Poland’s role as the frontline anchor for the NATO Alliance – via its crucial heart of Europe, three decade Polish-Ukrainian partnership. However grim the ambiguities plaguing European and transatlantic security, Poland and Ukraine stand together in their mutual security, stability, sovereignty, and survival. And, however the US and Europeans find better common ground to reduce US-Allied friction, the Poland-Ukraine bridge for Europe's defensive backbone continues enlarging Europe’s stability.

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Spero

Dr. Joshua B. Spero is Professor of International Politics/Political Science at Fitchburg State University and focuses on international security and international relations, particularly European and Eurasian security, government decision-making, and simulation crisis management decision-making. Before transitioning to academia, Dr. Spero served as senior civilian strategic planner for the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s J-5 Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate in the Europe-NATO Division (1994–2000); national security analyst at the Institute for National Strategic Studies (1990–94); and Deputy Assistant for Europe and the USSR at the Office of the Secretary of Defense (1988–90). From 1988-1994, he also served as the U.S. Army’s Ft. Leavenworth, KS based Soviet Army/Foreign Military Studies Office Liaison Officer in Washington, DC. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, International Institute for Strategic Studies, and Atlantic Council. He received his Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University’s School for Advanced International Studies (2001), and authored, among numerous publications, Middle Powers and Regional Influence: Critical Foreign Policy Junctures for Poland, South Korea, and Bolivia (Rowman and Littlefield, International 2018) and Bridging the European Divide: Middle Power Politics and Regional Security Dilemmas (Rowman and Littlefield, 2004). On March 12, 2003, the fourth anniversary of NATO membership for the Republic of Poland, Dr. Spero received the Knight Cross of the Order of Merit from Poland’s President.

 

 
April 28, 2025 - A Special Event for Mackinder Forum Fellows

Monday, April 28

12:00pm Eastern US Time - Meet and Greet
12:10pm - 1:45pm Eastern US Time - Talk / Q&A

Moderated by John Hillen
Duke University

This special event for Mackinder Forum Fellows is part 2 of a 2-Part discussion of The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World, a new book by Hal Brands.  Your moderator, the Honorable John Hillen, will lead a discussion of Brand's latest work.

From the book summary, “The Eurasian Century explains how revolutions in technology and warfare, and the rise of toxic ideologies of conquest, made Eurasia the center of twentieth-century geopolitics--with pressing implications for the struggles that will define the twenty-first.”

April 23, 2025 - A Special Event for Mackinder Forum Fellows

Wednesday, April 23

12:00pm Eastern US Time - Meet and Greet
12:10pm - 1:45pm Eastern US Time - Talk / Q&A

Moderated by Geoffrey Sloan, Ph.D.
University of Reading

This special event for Mackinder Forum Fellows is part 1 of a 2-Part discussion of The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World, a new book by Hal Brands.  Your moderator Geoffrey Sloan, Ph.D. will lead a discussion of Brand's latest work.

From the book summary, “The Eurasian Century explains how revolutions in technology and warfare, and the rise of toxic ideologies of conquest, made Eurasia the center of twentieth-century geopolitics--with pressing implications for the struggles that will define the twenty-first.”

April 17, 2025 - "Between Europe and Asia: Hungary at the Center of the World Island"

David P. Goldman
Asia Times

Thursday, April 17
12:00pm Eastern US Time - Meet and Greet
12:10pm - 1:45pm Eastern US Time - Talk / Q&A

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With a population of less than 10 million and a DP barely over $200 billion, Hungary is an improbable locus for geopolitical influence. But Viktor Orban's Fidesz government, now in its 15th year in office, has become an important intermediary between NATO and Russia, Western Europe and Central Asia, and the European Union and China. It holds membership in the EU, NATO, and the Organization of Turkic States. As the World Island emerges as a geopolitical challenge to postwar power relationships, Hungary plays a critical role as portal and intermediary.

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David P. Goldman is Deputy Editor at Asia Times and a fellow at the Corvinus Institute for Advanced Studies in Budapest. He is a member of the advisory board of the Hungarian Research Network.

 

April 2, 2025 - "Geopolitical and technological trends influencing maritime security"

A Special Presentation from the 2nd Maritime Security Conference

 "Geopolitical and technological trends influencing maritime security"

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Wednesday, April 2
11:00am Eastern US Time 

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Moderator:  

  • Leonard Hochberg, President Mackinder Forum

Panelists:

  • Rodger Baker, Executive Director Stratfor Center for Applied Geopolitics/RANE
  • Chris Parry, Rear Admiral CBE PhD, Visiting Fellow, University of Reading and MD of Middlemarch Enterprises
  • Guillaume Furgolle, Commander, French Navy, Defense Research Unit, Military Fellow, French Institute of International Relations (IFRI)
  • Efstathios Kyriakidis, Rear Admiral (ret) f. NATO Maritime Interdiction Operational Training Centre (NMIOTC) Commander
  • Michael Hochberg, Chairman of the Board, Mackinder Forum

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March 26, 2025 - "Will the Russian Federation Break Apart? Lessons from the History of Regionalism in Russia" with Susan Smith-Peter

Susan Smith-Peter, Ph.D.
College of Staten Island

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Wednesday, March 26
12:00pm Eastern US Time - Meet and Greet
12:10pm - 1:45pm Eastern US Time - Talk / Q&A

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Abstract
I argue that the Russian Federation (RF) is unlikely to break apart into independent territories and republics because the history of Russian regionalism suggests that it can be a centralizing as well as a centrifugal force. Often, public discussions on the possible breakup of the RF assume that the same logic and ease of the breakup of the Soviet Union will apply, but the facts suggest that the violence of the Russian Civil War would be a more likely result if it were to happen. My talk will look at the lessons of what I call statist regionalism, which is a recurring phenomenon in which those arguing for regionalist goals end up supporting a strong central state.
 
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Susan Smith-Peter is professor of history and director of the public history program at the College of Staten Island/ City University of New York. She has written widely about the history of regionalism in Russia, including a monograph, Imagining Russian Regions, published with Brill in 2018. She is currently working on a synthetic history of regionalism in Russia, with a particular focus on Siberia, from the 1830s to the Russian Civil War, with an epilogue bringing the most crucial threads up to the present.

March 12, 2025 - A Special Event for Mackinder Forum Fellows

Wednesday, March 12

12:00pm Eastern US Time - Meet and Greet
12:10pm - 1:45pm Eastern US Time - Talk / Q&A

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A Conversation on Realism, Geopolitics and Idealism in the Formulation of Foreign Policy

Moderated by Athanasios Platias, Ph.D.
Professor of Strategy, University of Piraeus

Moderator, Athanasios Platias will lead a conversation on Realism framed through the lens of the publications below.  In lieu of presentations, please come ready to discuss the articles and your thoughts on how geopolitics should shape foreign policy. 

This event is open to Mackinder Fellows and special guests only and will not be recorded.  We look forward to a vigorous discussion and hope that you can join us.

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February 28, 2025 - "The War in Ukraine and Eurasia’s New Geopolitics" with Jeffrey Mankoff

Jeffrey Mankoff
Center for Strategic and International Studies

Friday, Februay 28
12:20pm Eastern US Time - Meet and Greet
12:30pm - 2:00pm Eastern US Time - Talk / Q&A

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The impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been felt all across the Eurasian landmass. The diversion of Russian attention and resources to Ukraine has contributed to a vacuum around Russia’s borders that has both empowered local actors and created new opportunities for rival powers such as Turkey, Iran, China, and the European Union. In places like the South Caucasus, this vacuum has led to the unfreezing of previously intractable conflicts, creating new facts on the ground as well as new suffering for civilians. At the same time, it has provided space for a country like Moldova to accelerate its political transformation and integration with the West. Russia has, meanwhile, adapted to this new reality by shifting its objectives in much of its immediate neighborhood, leveraging geoeconomic tools and forging new partnerships to limit the damage to its reputation and influence. How have Moscow’s relations with its former dependencies in Central Asia and the Caucasus, and with other regional powers shifted as a result of the war in Ukraine? Will these shifts prove enduring once the war ends?

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Dr. Jeffrey Mankoff is a Distinguished Research Fellow at National Defense University's Institute for National Strategic Studies and a Non-Resident Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). 

His research focuses on Russian foreign policy, Eurasian geopolitics, and the role of history and memory in international relations. He is the author of the books Empires of Eurasia: How Imperial Legacies Shape International Security (Yale, 2022) and Russian Foreign Policy: The Return of Great Power Politics (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009, 2012). He also writes frequently for Foreign Affairs, War on the Rocks and other outlets.

Dr. Mankoff was previously a senior fellow with the Russia and Eurasia Program at CSIS and served as an adviser on U.S.-Russia relations at the U.S. Department of State as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow. From 2008 to 2010, he was associate director of International Security Studies at Yale University and an adjunct fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He also held the John M. Olin National Security Fellowship at Harvard University (2006-07) and the Henry Chauncey Fellowship at Yale University (2007-08). Dr. Mankoff received undergraduate degrees in international studies and Russian from the University of Oklahoma, and an M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in diplomatic history from Yale University. He is a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

February 12, 2025 - "The Iranian Nuclear Program: Sui Generis or the Tip of the Iceberg"

Ariel (Eli) Levite
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Wednesday, February 12
12:00pm Eastern US Time - Meet and Greet
12:10pm - 1:45pm Eastern US Time - Talk / Q&A

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Abstract
The Iranian nuclear program currently presents both a major threat to regional stability in the broader Middle East and an acute challenge to the non proliferation regime. The strategic collaboration between Russia, playing out in Ukraine and influencing Iran's fortunes,  further clouds the picture.  While timing is of the essence to address both challenges diplomatically, before the last remaining diplomatic leverage over Iran's nuclear program dissipates in the fall of 2025. Importantly, though, the contours of the Iranian nuclear program might not be unique, due to a critical lacuna in the global regime governing nuclear non proliferation. Its one whose global significance is rapidly growing due to the renewed enthusiasm for diverse nuclear power applications while the prospects for constructive P-5 collaborations in addressing  have been diminishing. The presentation will explore both the unique Iran specific issues and options for ad hoc solutions to address it and reflect on the bigger picture that affects not merely the prospects for an Iran deal but also the broader challenge of confronting nuclear proliferation it sheds light on. 

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Dr. Ariel (Eli) Levite has been principally affiliated with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace since 2008, serving as a non resident Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy and Technology and International Affairs programs, 

where he has been leading research and global stakeholder engagement on nuclear energy and its commercial as well as military applications, as well the digital/virtual transformation and the resilience challenges it poses. Prior to joining Carnegie, Levite has completed a 25 year distinguished career with the Israeli civil service, his last job there being Principal Deputy Director General (Policy) at the IAEC.

 

January 25, 2025 - A Colin Gray Memorial Lecture, "Will the 21st Century Be the Second 'American Century,' or the 'Chinese Century'?"

A Colin Gray Memorial Lecture 
Steven W. Mosher, President
Population Research Institute

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Wednesday, January 22
12:00pm Eastern US Time - Meet and Greet
12:10pm - 1:45pm Eastern US Time - Talk / Q&A

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Abstract
The rapid rise of China over the past three decades spawned a cottage industry of pundits who predicted that the country would soon overtake the United States in both economic power and military might.  The 21st Century, they predicted, would be known as the Chinese Century, as the 20th had been known as the American Century.  In recent years, however, demographic trends, the misallocation of resources, and CCP corruption and infighting have darkened China's prospects.  At the same time, President Trump appears poised to unleash American energy, encourage innovation, rebuild America's industrial base, and reduce the size of government.  Which country will be preeminent in 2100?

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Mosher

Steven W. Mosher is an internationally recognized authority on China and population issues, as well as an acclaimed author, speaker. He has worked tirelessly since 1979 to fight coercive population control programs and has helped hundreds of thousands of women and families worldwide over the years.

In 1979, Steven was the first American social scientist to visit mainland China. He was invited there by the Chinese government, where he had access to government documents and actually witnessed women being forced to have abortions under the new “one-child policy.” Mr. Mosher was a pro-choice atheist at the time, but witnessing these traumatic abortions led him to reconsider his convictions and to eventually become a practicing, pro-life Roman Catholic.

Steven has appeared numerous times before Congress as an expert in world population, China, and human rights abuses. He has also made TV appearances on Good Morning America, 60 Minutes, The Today Show, 20/20, FOX and CNN news, as well as being a regular guest on talk radio shows across the nation.

He is also the author of the best-selling A Mother’s Ordeal: One Woman’s Fight Against China’s One-Child Policy. Other books include Hegemon: China’s Plan to Dominate Asia and the World, China Attacks, China Misperceived: American Illusions and Chinese Reality, Journey to the Forbidden China, and Broken Earth: The Rural Chinese.

Articles by Steve have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Reader’s Digest, The New Republic, The Washington Post, National Review, Reason, The Asian Wall Street Journal, Freedom Review, Linacre Quarterly, Catholic World Report, Human Life Review, First Things, and numerous other publications.

Steven Mosher lives in Virginia with his wife, Vera, and their nine children.

January 8, 2025 - A Colin Gray Memorial Lecture "Deterrence:  What Went Wrong?  What Can Be Done Now?"

"Deterrence:  What Went Wrong?  What Can Be Done Now?"
A Colin Gray Memorial Lecture 

Dr. Keith B. Payne

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Wednesday, January 8
12:20pm Eastern US Time - Meet and Greet
12:30pm - 2:00pm Eastern US Time - Talk / Q&A

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Abstract
Contemporary U.S. plans for the modernization of nuclear forces are an approximately 15-year- old legacy of the Obama Administration.  They were established at a time when many U.S. officials believed that U.S. relations with Russia and China were relatively benign and would remain so, or improve further.  Correspondingly, these plans reflected no sense of urgency and, with the exception of a modified B61 bomb, nothing is soon-to-be operational.  How a new presidential administration and Congress decide to (or not) adapt the U.S. nuclear posture given
the unmistakable reality of a much more dangerous than expected contemporary threat environment will affect the U.S. nuclear force posture for decades, and, consequently, U.S. deterrence strategies and options.

The United States and allies face unprecedented threats:  a Sino-Russian entente, a Russo-North Korean alliance, and emerging Russo-Iranian cooperation.  This represents a grouping of authoritarian powers coalescing to overturn the existing liberal global order led by the United States.  What decisions and moves must a new president and Congress make in the near term to provide credible deterrence given unprecedented looming threats?  The 2023 report of the bipartisan Strategic Posture Commission repeatedly called for “urgent” action to address these threats.  That urgency, however, is far from apparent to this point.  The next president and Congress must get beyond deeply divided domestic politics to address an unprecedented level of threats to the United States and allies.

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Keith Payne is a co-founder of the National Institute for Public Policy, a nonprofit research center located in Fairfax, Virginia. He also is professor emeritus teaching doctoral courses at the Graduate School of Defense and Strategic Studies, Missouri State University (Washington Campus) where he previously served as Department Head for 14 years. He earlier served on the faculty of the graduate National Security studies Program at Georgetown University for 21 years.

Dr. Payne most recently served in the Department of Defense as a Senior Advisor to OSD and was tasked with helping to draft the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review and the 2019 Missile Defense Review. In 2019 he was awarded OSD’s Outstanding Achievement Award for this work. Previously he served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Forces Policy for which he received the Distinguished Public Service Medal. In 2005 he was awarded the Vicennial Medal from Georgetown University for his many years on the faculty of the National Security Studies Program, and in August 2018 he received the 2018 General Larry D. Welch Deterrence Writing Award from U.S. Strategic Command; his 1987 co-authored book, A Just Defense, was nominated for the Gold Medallion Award.

Dr. Payne served for many years as the Chairman of the U.S. Strategic Command’s Senior Advisory Group, Strategy and Policy Panel. He also served as a Commissioner on the bipartisan Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States, the Secretary of State’s International Security Advisory Board, as co-chairman of the Department of Defense’s Deterrence Concepts Advisory Group, and also as a participant or leader of numerous governmental and private studies, including White House studies of U.S.-Russian cooperation, Defense Science Board Studies, and Defense Department studies of deterrence, missile defense, arms control, and proliferation.

Dr. Payne is the author or co-author of over 250 published articles and book chapters, and an author or editor of 48 books and monographs, some of which have been translated into German, Spanish, Russian, Chinese or Japanese. These publications are used widely in professional military education and civilian universities. His most recent book is, Chasing a Grant Illusion: Replacing Deterrence With Disarmament (National Institute Press, 2023). His most recent monograph, co-authored, is, The Pernicious Effects of Arms Control Misperceptions on Extended Deterrence and Assurance (National Institute Press, 2024).

Dr. Payne received an A.B. (honors) in political science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1976, studied in Heidelberg, Germany, and in 1981 received a Ph.D. (with distinction) in International Relations from the University of Southern California.