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November 20, 2024

United States
Young Professionals Briefing With CFR Military Fellows

CFR Military Fellows discuss ways their respective branches are meeting the challenges of artificial intelligence and emerging technologies, climate change, and an evolving global threat landscape. …

Play CFR's 2024-2025 Military Fellow cohort Nathan M. Colvin, Thomas P. O’Donnell, Tina J. Peña, Todd E. Randolph, and Wilfred Rivera pictured in front of CFR's New York office.
Virtual Event by Nathan M. Colvin, Thomas P. O'Donnell, Tina J. Peña, Todd E. Randolph, Wilfred Rivera, and Meena Bose

September 25, 2024

Taiwan
U.S. Military Support for Taiwan in Five Charts

Taiwan has been a top buyer of U.S. military equipment for decades, but the island is waiting on a significant backlog of weapon deliveries that defense experts say are urgently needed to deter China…

A helicopter takes off from a guided-missile destroyer as part of Taiwan’s annual military exercises.
Article by Jonathan Masters and Will Merrow

October 1, 2024

Middle East and North Africa
U.S. Troops in the Middle East: Mapping the Military Presence

The U.S. military has an extensive footprint in the Middle East, including a collection of permanent bases and various naval assets, such as aircraft carriers and destroyers. 

A photo of an aircraft at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar
Article by Jonathan Masters and Will Merrow

October 25, 2024

Middle East and North Africa
The Threat of Regional Military Expansion in the Middle East

Panelists discuss the latest updates regarding the conflict in the Middle East, the risks of wider escalation, and the role of the United States. PLEASE NOTE: This meeting is part of the Twenty-Ni…

Play Israeli soldier watches as Israeli tanks manoeuvre during military drill near Ein Zivan in Golan Heights.
Virtual Event by Dana El Kurd, Stanley McChrystal, Alex Vatanka, Steven A. Cook, and Nancy D. Bodurtha Middle East Program

May 8, 2024

Politics and Government
2024 Conference on Diversity in International Affairs

The 2024 Conference on Diversity in International Affairs was a collaborative effort by the Council on Foreign Relations, the Global Access Pipeline, and the International Career Advancement Program…

Ruth Simmons at CDIA 2024
Virtual Event by Kevin A. Ball, María G. Barsallo Lynch, Mohamad Bazzi, Wafa Ben-Hassine, Esther Brimmer, Laura Delgado Lopez, Rush Doshi, Miriam Elder, Andrea R. Flores, Eric Garcetti, Sherry Hakimi, Shanthi A. Kalathil, Jessica Keegan, Andrew S. Kim, Brian Mateo, Ebenezer Obadare, Mira D. Patel, Sabrina Roshan, Pir Z. Shah, Ruth J. Simmons, Paul B. Stares, Munish Walther-Puri, Daniel E. White, Jamila White, Edith L. Bartley, Sewell Chan, Bay Fang, Michael Froman, Hermes Grullon, Charles A. Reynolds, Cecilia Elena Rouse, Gabrielle Sierra, and Ezinne Uzo-Okoro Conference on Diversity in International Affairs

July 10, 2024

United States
Future Wars: The Nexus of Technology and the Military

Panelists discuss the Silicon Valley’s role in the future of war and whether or not the Pentagon is successfully innovating rapidly enough to keep up with the technological changes facing the militar…

Play A marine stands above an Unmanned Vehicle Robot, Testudo, at the launch of the Defence Technology Plan in London.
Event by Christopher M. Kirchhoff, Anne Neuberger, Raj Shah, and Carla Anne Robbins National Security and Defense Program

May 13, 2024

Defense and Security
Robert B. McKeon Endowed Series on Military Strategy and Leadership

The U.S. military service chiefs discuss U.S. defense priorities around the world and the state of the American armed forces. The Robert B. McKeon Endowed Series on Military Strategy and Leadershi…

Play The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Gravely, steams ahead of the Whidbey Island-class amphibious dock landing ship USS Gunston Hall during a maneuvering exercise.
Virtual Event by Randy A. George, Eric M. Smith, Lisa Franchetti, David W. Allvin, B. Chance Saltzman, Linda Fagan, and Michael Froman Robert B. McKeon Endowed Series on Military Strategy and Leadership

July 31, 2024

Israel
Why Israel Wants to Draft the Ultra-Orthodox Into the Military

As Israel fights its war in the Gaza Strip, changes to a decades-old draft exemption for its fastest-growing demographic group threaten to fracture Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition and e…

In Brief by Simone Lipkind

December 3, 2024

Israel
Assessing a Year of War in the Middle East

A year after Hamas’s devastating October 7 attack, Israel faces a seven-front war and deepening divisions between its military and Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. Meanwhile, the humanitarian crisis …

A Palestinian man looks out of his heavily damaged house at neighbouring houses which witnesses said were destroyed during the Israeli offensive, in the east of the Gaza strip.
Virtual Event by Audrey Kurth Cronin, Tamir Hayman, Robert Pape, Elliott Abrams, Nazanin Boniadi, Salam Fayyad, Richard Haass, Assaf Orion, Itamar Rabinovich, Mara E. Rudman, Steven A. Cook, Elise Labott, and Janine Zacharia

February 28, 2024

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
American Military Leadership in the Middle East

Former CENTCOM Commanders David Petraeus and Anthony Zinni discuss the military aspect of the Israel-Hamas war and lessons learned from U.S. involvement and operations in the Middle East.

Play Smoke rises over northern Gaza following Israeli air strikes in Dec 2023.
Virtual Event by David H. Petraeus, Anthony C. Zinni, and Karen J. DeYoung