Seminar Series The Need to Rethink Our Grand Strategy With the stark changes in the global political climates, the Gold Institute for international Strategy presents a lunchtime interactive webinar series to take an in depth look at Grand Strategy of the U.S. and our Allies. Join us as we learn and interact with some of the foremost experts on grand strategy.
Monday, February 1, 2021 – 12Noon – 1:30pm Adam Lovinger: Framing Grand Strategy Tuesday, February 2, 2021 – 12Noon – 1:30pm Geoffrey Van Orden CBE: Strategic Choice in the 21st Century and the Role of Alliances Wednesday, February 3, 2021 – 12Noon – 1:30pm BG Ernie Audino: Grand Strategy and Its role in Military Engagement Thursday, February 4, 2021 – 12Noon – 1:30pm Eli M. Gold: The Combination of Roles in Creation of Grand Strategy – A conversation with the week’s lecturers.
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Monday, February 1, 2021 – Thursday, February 4, 2021 12 Noon – 1:30PM
Fee: $125.00 Free to Supporting Members
Adam Lovinger, VP of Strategic AffairsSince 2006 Adam S. Lovinger has served as a strategist in the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment (ONA), where he provided direct support on long-term strategy to the Secretary of Defense.
For the first four months of the Trump Administration, Lovinger served as Senior Director for Strategic Assessments at the U.S. National Security Council (NSC). Working from within the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) between 2006 and 2017, Mr. Lovinger conducted diagnostic analyses highlighting emerging strategic problems and opportunities confronting the Department's leadership, and identified strategic management issues relating to the long-term military competition between the U.S. and her competitors.
Geoffrey Van Orden, CBE, Distinguished Fellow Geoffrey Van Orden is a former soldier and senior politician. He was the last leader of the British Conservatives in the European Parliament before Britain left the EU on 31 January 2020. He had been re-elected five times since 1999 by the British people as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP - “European Senator”). Before entering politics, he was a military intelligence officer for 30 years. His first operational posting was to Borneo in 1965 in defence of the newly formed state of Malaysia during the “Confrontation” war. He went on to become a counter terrorism specialist and at the age of 27 was awarded the MBE for special duties in Northern Ireland at the height of the IRA terrorist troubles in the early 1970s (MBE is literally “Member of the Order of the British Empire”, an honour first introduced by King George V during World War I. He was subsequently promoted to be a Commander of the Order (CBE), for political services). From the time of his first election to the European Parliament he was a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee. He became its Vice Chairman, a member of the Defense Committee and the Conservative Foreign Affairs and Defense Spokesman. He was also Vice Chairman of the Special Committee on Terrorism. He led the opposition to the EU’s defense policies and called consistently for revitalization of the NATO alliance. He chaired the Delegation for Relations with India and the Friends of Sri Lanka, was the founding Co-Chairman of the Asia-Europe Political Forum and a long-standing member of the Joint Parliamentary Committee with Turkey.
BG Ernie Audino, U.S. Army (Ret), Senior Fellow Brigadier General Ernest C. Audino, graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1983 and retired in 2011 after a 28-year Army career. He served multiple assignments in armor, cavalry, infantry and Stryker units. Other key assignments include service as an Army Congressional Fellow in the US Senate, duty as the Executive Assistant to the Vice Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Director of Nuclear Support at the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency. His last assignment was as the Deputy Director of Operations for Headquarters, US Army, in the Pentagon.
Eli M. Gold, President Eli M. Gold is the President of the Gold Institute for International Strategy. Prior to creating the Gold Institute Eli was the co-founder a leading foreign policy and national security think tank. Eli Gold has created go-to organization for U.S. policy makers, as well as foreign governments seeking guidance on the most complex foreign policy and defense issues. In his work with Congress Mr. Gold has created a network of congressional members on Capitol Hill to work toward a common goal. He is regularly consulted on the drafting a variety of legislation and to host briefings with a variety of U.S. and foreign government officials and policy experts on Capitol Hill regarding current defense or foreign policy concerns. At the request of members of European parliaments, Eli has created a Transatlantic Dialogue where members of congress and parliament can work together in an off the record manner to discuss security concerns in an unobstructed environment. He has offered policy guidance to numerous candidates seeking office at all levels of government including Governor, U.S. House, Senate and 3 presidential candidates.
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