Speakers
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USMC General (Ret.), Non-Resident Distinguished Fellow at Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)
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Professor of Security and Military Studies and the Founding Chair of the Critical Security Studies Programme at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
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Commander of the Estonian Defence Forces
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Director of the Russia Studies Program at the Center for Naval Analysis
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Chief of Defence of the Czech Republic
Moderator
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Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute
What lessons can be identified from Russia’s war in Ukraine, both from the perspective of major powers and small states? What changes are required in our own forces be ready for such contingencies? What changes are needed to the defence industrial base to ensure that our forces are adequately equipped for a major war?
“An angel throng, bewinged, bedight
Edgar Allan Poe, The Conqueror Worm (1843)
In veils, and drowned in tears,
Sit in a theatre, to see
A play of hopes and fears.”