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Instructors

AASE’s lead instructors are its co-founders, Dr. Jacqueline Deal (President & CEO, Long Term Strategy Group), Prof. Aaron Friedberg (Princeton University), and Prof. Stephen P. Rosen (Harvard University).

Jacqueline Deal has been running the Long Term Strategy Group (LTSG) since 2006. LTSG provides research and analysis on defense issues and future trends to government sponsors and other clients. Founded in Cambridge, Mass., the firm moved to Washington, DC, in 2012. Deal’s own research focuses on trends in Chinese military strategy, nationalism, and defense capabilities. She has also written on China’s capacity for generating technological innovations, Chinese Communist Party policies related to information management, and the party’s approach to securing China’s energy supplies. Her work has been published in the New York Times, the National Interest, the Weekly Standard, and a range of other popular outlets and academic journals. Deal received her A.B. (summa cum laude) from Harvard University, and her M.Phil. and D.Phil. from Oxford University. Prior to starting LTSG, she was a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer in the Government Department at Harvard and at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Deal is a member of the editorial board of Parameters, a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a fellow of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Vandenberg Coalition.

Selected Writing and Appearances

Articles

  • December 2022, Andrew W. Marshall Foundation: “CCP Weapons of Mass Persuasion”link
  • July 2022, Future of Conservative Internationalism, Volume III (Reagan Institute Strategy Group): response to “Balance in the Inso-Pacific: Defining the U.S. Approach” by Alex Wonglink
  • July 2021, Future of Conservative Internationalism, Volume II (Reagan Institute Strategy Group): response to “The View From Beijing: What are China’s Ambitions and Strategies?” by Matt Pottingerlink
  • May 2021, Politico (China Watcher): “China could soon outgun the U.S.”link
  • August 2020, US Army War College Quarterly (Parameters): “Disintegrating the Enemy: The PLA’s Info-Messaging”link
  • July 2020, ThePrint: “China crisis has given Modi the opportunity to do for India what Lincoln, FDR did for the US” with Dr. Stephen Rosen and Dr. Shivaji Sondhilink
  • May 2020, Japan Forward: “Growth Disrupted: A Chastened China Girds for Conflict”link
  • May 2020, The American Interest: “Xi’s Precarious Bargain”link
  • April 2020, The American Interest: “A Chastened China Girds for Conflict”link
  • May 2019, Ronald Reagan Institute Essay Series on Presidential Principles and Beliefs: “The Fudan Fulcrum”link
  • September 2017, ChinaFile: “Bannon Says the U.S. Is at ‘Economic War with China.’ Is He Right?”link
  • June 2016, US Army War College Quarterly (Parameters): “Prospects for Peace: The View From Beijing”link
  • July 2015, National Review: “How the U.S. Should Respond to the Latest Chinese Hack”link
  • July 2015, National Review: “Hacking OPM”link
  • February 2013, The National Interest: “China’s Nationalist Heritage”link
  • October 2012, Foreign Policy: “The Long Engagement” with Dr. Stephen Rosen and Dr. Shivaji Sondhilink
  • October 2011, Foreign Policy: “China’s Iranian Gambit” with Michael Singhlink
  • August 2010, Journal of Strategic Studies: “The Revolution in Military Affairs with Chinese Characteristics”link
  • October 2003, New York Times: “Will the Space Race Move East?”link

Books

  • May 2020 chapter for Remembering Andy Marshall: Essays by his Friends: “Mr. Marshall as a People Person”link
  • September 2019 chapter for China’s Changing Family Structure: Dimensions and Implications: “China’s Demographic Trends: How Will They Matter?” with Dr. Michael Szonyilink
  • August 2012 chapter for Competitive Strategies for the 21st Century: “China’s Approach to Strategy and Long-Term Competition”link
  • July 2008 chapter for Energy Security and Global Politics: The Militarization of Resource Management: “Chinese energy security and the Chinese regime”link

Events

  • June 2022 Project 2049 Institute book launch discussion of “The Final Struggle: Inside China’s Global Strategy” by Ian Eastonvideo
  • February 2022 Atlantic Council discussion of “America Second: How America’s elites are making China stronger” by Isaac Stone Fishvideo
  • September 2021 Andrew W. Marshall Foundation discussion: “Celebrating 100 Years: Andy Marshall’s Life and Legacy”video
  • August 2021 Brookings Institution discussion of “The Long Game” by Rush Doshivideo
  • May 2020 Foreign Policy Research Institute lecture: “The End of Xi’s China Dream? Chinese Commentary on COVID-19”video
  • October 2020 Johns Hopkins SAIS book launch panel: “Net Assessment and Military Strategy” by Dr. Thomas Mahnkenvideo
  • April 2019 Reagan Foundation Conversations with Great Communicators (Senator Marco Rubio)video
  • April 2017 Foreign Policy Research Institute lecture: “China and Shifting Dynamics in East Asia”video
  • February 2016 Foreign Policy Research Institute lecture: “Competing with China Over the Long Haul”video
  • October 2015 Hudson Institute panel: “China’s Asia Strategy and the Next U.S. President”video

Testimony

  • January 2021 testimony before the US-China Economic and Security Commission hearing on “US-China Relations at the Chinese Communist Party’s Centennial”written testimony, video
  • February 2018 testimony before the US-China Economic and Security Commission hearing on “China’s Military Reforms and Modernization: Implications for the United States”written testimony
  • April 2017 testimony before the US-China Economic and Security Commission hearing on “Hotspots Along China’s Maritime Periphery”written testimony, video
  • March 2011 testimony before the US-China Economic and Security Commission hearing on “China’s Narratives Regarding National Security Policy”written testimony
Aaron Friedberg is Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, where he is also co-director of the Woodrow Wilson School’s Center for International Security Studies. From June 2003 to June 2005 he served as Deputy Assistant for National Security in the Office of the Vice President. Friedberg has written widely on issues of strategic planning, power transition, and the rise of China. His books include The Weary Titan: Britain and The Experience of Relative Decline, 1895–1905 (Princeton University Press, 1988), In the Shadow of the Garrison State: America’s Anti-Statism and Its Cold War Grand Strategy (Princeton University Press, 2000), A Contest for Supremacy: China, America, and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia (W. W. Norton & Company, 2011), and Beyond Air-Sea Battle: The Debate Over US Military Strategy in Asia (Routledge, 2014). Friedberg received his A.B. and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He is a member of the editorial boards of Joint Forces Quarterly and The Journal of Strategic Studies and a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Selected Writing and Appearances

Articles

  • October 2021, Proceedings (US Naval Institute): “What’s At Stake In The Indo-Pacific”link
  • October 2020, Foreign Policy: “Beware the China Reset”link
  • October 2020, Foreign Affairs: “An Answer to Aggression: How to Push Back Against Beijing”link
  • October 2020, Foreign Affairs: “Reply to ‘The Overreach of the China Hawks'”link
  • May 2020, Foreign Policy: “The United States Needs to Reshape Global Supply Chains”link
  • May 2020, The National Bureau of Asian Research: “A Clarifying Moment: The Covid-19 Pandemic and the Future of the U.S.-China Rivalry”link
  • March 2020, The Washington Quarterly: “Partial Disengagement: A New US Strategy for Economic Competition with China”link
  • November 2019, The National Bureau of Asian Research: “Partial Disengagement: A New U.S. Strategy for Economic Competition with China”link
  • June 2018, Foreign Affairs: “Did America Get China Wrong?: The Engagement Debate”link
  • June 2018, Survival: “Competing with China”link
  • January 2018, Foreign Policy: “China’s Understanding of Global Order Shouldn’t be Ours”link
  • January 2018, Survival: “Globalisation and Chinese Grand Strategy”link
  • August 2017, The National Bureau of Asian Research: “The North Korean Crisis and the Second Nuclear Age”link
  • August 2015, Wall Street Journal: “A U.S. ‘Solarium Project’ for China”link
  • May 2015, Survival: “The Debate Over US China Strategy”link
  • January 2015, The Washington Quarterly: “The Sources of Chinese Conduct: Explaining Beijing’s Assertiveness”link
  • December 2014, The National Bureau of Asian Research: “Approaching Critical Mass: Asia’s Multipolar Nuclear Future”link
  • August 2012, Foreign Affairs: “Bucking Beijing: An Alternative U.S. China Policy”link
  • July 2012, The National Bureau of Asian Research: “Turning to the Pacific: U.S. Strategic Rebalancing toward Asia”link
  • July 2011, The New Republic: “The Unrealistic Realist (review of ‘On China’ by Henry Kissinger)”link
  • July 2011, Foreign Policy: “In U.S.-China relations, ideology matters”link
  • April 2009, Foreign Policy: “Grading Obama’s first 100 days”link
  • January 2009, The National Bureau of Asian Research: “Advising the New U.S. President”link
  • July 2007, Foreign Affairs: “The Long Haul: Fighting and Funding America’s Next Wars”link
  • November 2000, Commentary: “The Struggle for Mastery in Asia”link

Books

  • May 2022: “Getting China Wrong”link
  • August 2017: “The Authoritarian Challenge: China, Russia and the Threat to the Liberal International Order”link
  • October 2015 chapter for “Choosing to Lead: American Foreign Policy for a Disordered World”link
  • May 2014: “Beyond Air–Sea Battle: The Debate Over US Military Strategy in Asia”link
  • September 2010: “The Weary Titan: Britain and the Experience of Relative Decline, 1895-1905”link
  • March 2000: “In the Shadow of the Garrison State”link

Events

  • September 2021 Conversations with Bill Kristol discussion: “Afghanistan and US-China Relations, China’s Ambitions, and How to Compete with China”link
  • October 2019 Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard lecture: “The Rise of China and the Strategic Threat to the US”link
  • January 2012 Nanyang Technological University, Singapore lecture: “A Contest for Supremacy: China, America, and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia”link
  • April 2011 German Marshall Fund of the United States interview: “China’s rise makes U.S. more relevant in Asia”link

Testimony

  • May 2019 testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee: “Smart Competition: Adapting U.S. Strategy Toward China at 40 Years”link
  • February 2018 testimony before the House Armed Services Committee: “Strategic Competition With China”link
  • June 2014 testimony before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations: “The Future of U.S.-China Relations”written testimony
Stephen P. Rosen is the Beton Michael Kaneb Professor of National Security and Military Affairs at Harvard University, where he has also been a Harvard College Professor, the Master of Winthrop House, and Director of the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies. He was the civilian assistant to the director, Net Assessment, in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Director of Political-Military Affairs on the staff of the National Security Council, and a professor in the Strategic Department at the Naval War College. He participated in the President’s Commission on Integrated Long Term Strategy, and in the Gulf War Air Power Survey sponsored by the Secretary of the Air Force, and he has published widely on nuclear proliferation, ballistic missile defense, limited war, and the American national character as it affects foreign policy. His first book, Winning the Next War: Innovation and the Modern Military (Cornell University Press, 1994), won the 1992 Furniss Prize. His subsequent books are Societies and Military Power: India and its Armies (Cornell University Press, 1996) and War and Human Nature (Princeton University Press, 2004). Rosen received his A.B. and his Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Selected Writing and Appearances

Articles

  • July 2020, ThePrint: “China crisis has given Modi the opportunity to do for India what Lincoln, FDR did for the US”link
  • March 2018, Foreign Affairs: “Future Fights: Preparing for the Next War”link
  • June 2015, Wall Street Journal: “How America Can Balance China’s Rising Power in Asia”link
  • March 2014, Wall Street Journal: “The National Security Generation Gap”link
  • October 2012, Foreign Policy: “The Long Engagement”link
  • November 2010, Wall Street Journal: “The Emperor’s Nuclear Clothes”link
  • September 2006, Foreign Affairs: “After Proliferation: What to Do If More States Go Nuclear”link
  • April 2003, Wall Street Journal: “After the Fall”link
  • March 2003, National Interest: “An Empire, If You Can Keep It”link
  • June 1984, The Public Interest: “Systems analysis and the quest for rational defense”Link

Books

  • February 2007: “War and Human Nature”link
  • September 1996: “Societies and Military Power: India and Its Armies”link
  • May 1994: “Winning the Next War: Innovation and the Modern Military “link

Events

  • December 2020 Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard lecture: “American Foreign Policy Today”link
  • January 2019 Conversations with Bill Kristol discussion: “US Foreign Policy, Great Power Competition, and the Rise of China”link
  • March 2016 Conversations with Bill Kristol discussion: “Our Geopolitical Challenges and American Leadership”link
  • December 2015 Tikvah Fund discussion: “Eric Edelman on Al-Kibar and Operation Orchard”link

AASE courses and dialogues also feature guest lectures by a range of national security professionals, including serving and recently retired U.S. Defense Department civilian officials and military officers. Recent speakers have included:

  • Amb. Eric Edelman (former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and U.S. Ambassador to Turkey)
  • Dr. Thomas Ehrhard (former Special Assistant, Deputy Secretary of Defense)
  • Dr. David Epstein (Deputy Director, Office of Net Assessment)
  • Andrew W. Marshall (former Director, Office of Net Assessment)
  • Dr. Andrew D. May (Associate Director, Office of Net Assessment)
  • Dr. Ashley Tellis (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
  • Dr. Michael G. Vickers (former Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence)

In all of our activities, we endeavor to live up to the intellectual and moral standards of Andrew W. Marshall, the founder of the Office of Net Assessment in the Office of the Secretary of Defense of the United States. Mr. Marshall dedicated his life to serving his country by better understanding the nature of the world in which the United States lives, the characteristics of those who wish to do it harm, and its enduring strengths.  This could only be done by insisting on the highest standards of professionalism and objectivity in research and analysis, and on the bravery necessary to ask the right questions, while setting aside the pursuit of partisan political advantage and petty personal ambitions.

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