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EMERALD BEACH HOTEL AND NOT THE ORTIZ CENTER!!

The United States and its liberal allies and partners are being subjected to military competition, political, economic and financial warfare, lawfare, hybrid warfare information attacks, and every other aspect of unconventional warfare. The only rules restraining our adversaries are the rules of inattributability and of remaining below the threshold of military combat. But this multi-front, multi-domain war is not random. China, Russia, and the Salafi jihadists each seem to be guided by an ice-cold and long-term strategic determination to exploit American and western weaknesses, and the seams in the fabric that hold the liberal world order together. In their pursuit of power, America’s current adversaries are far less adverse to applying all national resources as weapons in the fight.

Mr. Miklaucic, our first luncheon speaker of the year 2022, argues that we are in an era characterized by persistent and comprehensive, multi-domain threats. Our most potent adversaries are relentless in their pursuit of strategies that know no distinction between war and peace, between military and civilian—and pose an existential threat to the rules-based global system. He further argues that to prevail in this era and secure the benefits of liberty for ourselves and our posterity the United States and its allies must adopt a new paradigm for defense and security to replace the current binary construct of war/peace. He suggests that there is a template for enlightened discipline in the face of persistent, multi-domain threats in the concept of total defense, and examine the approaches developed by the Nordic and Baltic countries, as well as Israel, Singapore, and Taiwan. Defense, however, is not enough; in an era of persistent, comprehensive, and multi-domain threats, we also need a concept of agile, active measures. We must develop and actively utilize a toolbox of advanced, assymetric actions to shift the burden of reaction to our adversaries. Please join us for this exciting, engaging, highly informative and educational presentation!

Mr. Miklaucic is a Senior Fellow of the Institute for National Strategic Studies at National Defense University, and the Editor-in -Chief of PRISM, NDU’s flagship journal of complex operations.  He is coordinator of the PRISM/INSS Distinguished Speaker Series and the Convenor of the NDU Geoeconomics Community of Interest. Mr. Miklaucic is a member of the Academic Faculty at the University of Chicago and Adjunct Lecturer at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies. Previously he served in various positions at the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Department of State, including USAID representative on the Civilian Response Corps Inter-Agency Task Force, as the Senior Program Officer in the USAID Office of Democracy and Governance, and Rule of Law Specialist in the Center for Democracy and Governance.  In 2002-2003 he served as the Department of State Deputy for War Crimes Issues.  In that position he was responsible for U.S. relations with the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), war crimes issues and negotiations in East Timor and Cambodia, and the early implementation of the Sudan Peace Act. He studied at the University of California, the London School of Economics, and the School for Advanced International Studies.

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