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Abstract:
Understanding the nature and character of war, and predicting future war is at the core activities of military planning, and the utmost responsibility of the General Staff. This is the foundation for capabilities and organizational development to fight the next war. Oscar Jonsson will present his first webinar for RSI analyzing the thinking of modern war both from a political and military perspective and how they are changing. Jonsson will be joined by Tim Thomas in this discussion.
Understanding the nature and character of war, and predicting future war is at the core activities of military planning, and the utmost responsibility of the General Staff. This is the foundation for capabilities and organizational development to fight the next war.
Oscar Jonsson will present his first webinar for RSI analyzing the thinking of modern war both from a political and military perspective and how they are changing. Jonsson will be joined by Tim Thomas in this discussion.
Biographies
Speaker: Oscar Jonsson
Dr. Oscar Jonsson is Academic Director for the Center for the Governance of Change. He holds a PhD from the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. He has earlier been Director of the Stockholm Free World Forum, a visiting researcher at UC Berkeley and a subject-matter expert at the Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters. Oscar has advised governments, armed forces’ leadership and financial institutions on strategic affairs and geopolitical risk, and featured in international print and broadcast media.Oscar’s research focuses on the impact of emerging technologies on modern statecraft and conflict, and in particular Russian modern warfare. He is the author of The Russian Understanding of War (Georgetown University Press) which is on the Commander of US Special Forces’ reading list for 2020 and finalist for the Association of American Publisher’s award for scholarly and professional excellence in social sciences 2020.
Speaker: Timothy Thomas
Timothy L. Thomas is an analyst for the MITRE Corporation. He worked for 27 years at the Foreign Military Studies Office (FMSO) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He retired from the U.S. Army as a Lieutenant Colonel in the summer of 1993. Mr. Thomas received a B.S. from West Point and an M.A. from the University of Southern California. He was a U.S. Army Foreign Area Officer who specialized in Soviet/Russian studies. His military assignments included serving as the Director of Soviet Studies at the United States Army Russian Institute (USARI) in Garmisch, Germany; as an inspector of Soviet tactical operations under CSCE; and as a Brigade S 2 and company commander in the 82nd Airborne Division. Mr. Thomas has done extensive research and publishing on military affairs about both Russia and China. He served as the assistant editor of the journal European Security and as an adjunct professor at the U.S. Army's Eurasian Institute, and was an adjunct lecturer at the USAF Special Operations School.
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