Scowcroft Center Commentary, Analysis, & Reports

Pavel on Obama’s Address at West Point

By Barry Pavel

VP and Scowcroft Center Director Barry Pavel joins KPCC’s AirTalk to discuss President Obama’s address to the graduating class at the US Military Academy at West Point:

Transcript: Defense Cooperation in the Arabian Gulf

Moderator: Michele Dunne, Senior Associate, Middle East Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace  Panelists: Kevin J. Cosgriff, Former Commander, U.S. Fifth Fleet, U.S. NavyMichael Eisenstadt, Senior Fellow and Director, Military and Security Studies Program, The Washington Institute for Near East PolicyBilal Y. Saab, Senior Fellow for Middle East Security, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, […]

Transcript: What’s Next? Missile Defense in 2030

Moderator: Barry Pavel, Vice President and Director, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, Atla Panelists: James N. Miller, President, Adaptive Strategies LLC; Former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, US Department of Defense; Board Director, Atlantic Council Robert Stein, Senior Fellow, U.S. Defense Science Board Dean Wilkening, Physicist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Former Senior Research Scientist, Center […]

Transcript: Missile Defense in the Asia Pacific

MODERATOR: RANDALL SCHRIVER, FOUNDING PARTNER, ARMITAGE INTERNATIONAL; PRESIDENT AND CEO, PROJECT 2049 INSTITUTE   PANELISTS: PATRICK CRONIN, SENIOR ADVISOR AND SENIOR DIRECTOR OF THE ASIA-PACIFIC SECURITY PROGRAM, CENTER FOR NEW AMERICAN SECURITY DAVID GOMPERT, ADJUNCT SENIOR FELLOW, RAND CORPORATION

Transcript: The United States and Global Missile Defense Transatlantic Missile Defense Architecture

Moderator: John Rood, Vice President, Business Development, Raytheon     Panelists: Robert G. Bell, Senior Civilian Representative of the Secretary of Defense in Europe & Defense Advisor, US Mission to NATO Alexis Morel, Director of Strategic Affairs, Thales Kurt Volker, Executive Director, The McCain Institute for International Leadership, Arizona State University; Senior Adviser, Brent Scowcroft […]

Transcript: Admiral James A. Winnefeld at 2014 Missile Defense Conference

Welcome and Keynote Remarks: U.S. Missile Defense Plans and Priorities WELCOME:FREDERICK KEMPE,PRESIDENT AND CEO, ATLANTIC COUNCIL ELLEN O. TAUSCHER,VICE CHAIR, BRENT SCOWCROFT CENTER ON INTERNATIONAL SECURITY, ATLANTIC COUNCIL KEYNOTE SPEAKER:ADMIRAL JAMES A. WINNEFELD, JR.,VICE CHAIRMAN, U.S. JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF

Manning: Can Modi Boost Complex India-US Ties?

By Robert Manning

Robert Manning, senior fellow at the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, writes an op-ed for the Global Times on the future of US-Indian relations under Prime Minister Modi’s new leadership:

Campbell and Garrett on National Security Implications of 4D Printing

By Banning Garrett

Bloomberg Businessweek cites “The Next Wave: 4D Printing,” a report by Brent Scowcroft Center’s Strategic Foresight Initiative Senior Fellows Thomas Campbell and Banning Garrett along with Skylar Tibbetts, on the national security implications of 4D printing:

Brzezinski on Ukrainian and EU Elections

Brent Scowcroft Center Senior Fellow Ian Brzezinski joins MSNBC’s Morning Joe to discuss the Ukrainian presidential elections, calling them a “positive development,” and the gains made by the far-right political parties in the European Union Parliamentary elections:

Kroenig on New Iran Book

By Matthew Kroenig

Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Matthew Kroenig joins the Michael Medved Show to discuss his new book A Time to Attack: The Looming Iranian Nuclear Crisis:

Transcript: Missile Defense Agency: A Retrospective

Moderator: Ian Brzezinski, Senior Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, Atlantic Council   Panelists: Ronald T. Kadish, Executive Vice President, Defense Group, Booz Allen Hamilton Henry A. Obering, Senior Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton Patrick O’Reilly, Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, Atlantic Council

US News and World Report: Doing Less with Less

By Atlantic Council

US News and World Report cites the Atlantic Council for hosting an event with General Martin Dempsey:

Brattberg: To Speak of a Beijing-Moscow Axis is “Premature”

By Erik Brattberg

Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security Resident Fellow Erik Brattberg and SAIS’ Bernardo Peres de Lima detail how the West may exploit the complicated relationship between China and Russia to its benefit in The Diplomat:

Pavel on President Obama’s Foreign Policy

By Barry Pavel

Atlantic Council VP and Director of the Brent Scowcroft Center Barry Pavel speaks with the Los Angeles Times about President Obama’s foreign policy struggles ahead of his commencement address at West Point:

Brzezinski on Modernizing Russia’s Military

By Ian Brzezinski

Brent Scowcroft Center Senior Fellow Ian Brzezinski is quoted in the Economist on Russia’s military modernization:

AP: White House Upset with House Defense Bill

By Atlantic Council

The Associated Press cites the Atlantic Council for hosting General Martin Dempsey at its Disrupting Defense conference: