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FPRI: The Future of Russian Power and Conventional Warfare: Drawing Lessons from the Russia-Ukraine War

August 10th at 17:00 CET/11:00 EDT
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Join in as RSI hosts experts from Foreign Policy Research Institute based to discuss their recent RSI project "The Future of Russian Power and Conventional Warfare: Drawing Lessons from the Russian-Ukraine War."

Biographies

 Rob Lee Robert Lee

A senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute

Rob Lee Robert Lee is a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and an expert on Russian military affairs. He has led or contributed to FPRI’s research on the Russian military via reports such as “Russian Aviation: A Case Study on the Prospects of Defense Sector Conversion”; “Future Russian Tank Procurement and the T-14 Armata Tank”; “Russia’s Procurement of Armored Vehicles”; “Russia’s Military Posture in the Arctic: Drivers & Outlook”; and others. Robert has worked as a visiting fellow at the Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies in Moscow while an Alfa Fellow and has also worked at Verno Capital, JP Morgan, and the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously he served as an infantry officer in the Marine Corps. He holds an MA from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.

Philip G. Wasielewski 

A senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, Eurasia Program

Philip G. Wasielewski is a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Eurasia Program.  He is a former Paramilitary Case Officer who had a 31-year career in the Directorate of Operations of the Central Intelligence Agency.  He was a member of the first CIA team into Afghanistan in 2001 and served a three-year assignment on the National Security Council staff as the Director for Intelligence and Covert Action programs. His CIA career was paralleled by a concurrent 30-year Marine Corps career (7 years active duty and 23 reserve) as an infantry officer including mobilizations for Afghanistan and Iraq. Philip Wasielewski graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1983 with a B.A. in International Relations and European History.  He also has an M.A. from Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian Studies and an M.A. in National Security Studies from the Army War College.   

Dr. Stephen J. Blank

A senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, Eurasia Program
Dr. Stephen J. Blank is Senior Fellow at FPRI’s Eurasia Program. He has published over 900 articles and monographs on Soviet/Russian, U.S., Asian, and European military and foreign policies, testified frequently before Congress on Russia, China, and Central Asia, consulted for the Central Intelligence Agency, major think tanks and foundations, chaired major international conferences in the U.S. and in Florence; Prague; and London, and has been a commentator on foreign affairs in the media in the U.S. and abroad. He has also advised major corporations on investing in Russia and is a consultant for the Gerson Lehrmann Group. He has published or edited 15 books, most recently Russo-Chinese Energy Relations: Politics in Command (London: Global Markets Briefing, 2006). He has also published Natural Allies? Regional Security in Asia and Prospects for Indo-American Strategic Cooperation (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2005). He is currently completing a book entitled Light From the East: Russia’s Quest for Great Power Status in Asia to be published in 2014 by Ashgate. Dr. Blank is also the author of The Sorcerer as Apprentice: Stalin’s Commissariat of Nationalities (Greenwood, 1994); and the co-editor of The Soviet Military and the Future (Greenwood, 1992).