Western Security Assistance: Trends Amidst Great Power Competition – Hybrid Seminar
October 18 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Please join the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Jahara “FRANKY” Matisek, Ph.D., presenting a hybrid seminar titled Western Security Assistance: Trends Amidst Great Power Competition on Friday, October 18 at Colorado School of Mines.
TOPIC: WESTERN SECURITY ASSISTANCE: TRENDS AMIDST GREAT POWER COMPETITION
SPEAKER: JAHARA “FRANKY” MATISEK, PH.D., LIEUTENANT COLONEL, U.S. AIR FORCE, MILITARY PROFESSOR (NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT), U.S. NAVAL WAR COLLEGE
HOSTED BY: THE PAYNE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY
TIME: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2024| 12:00PM – 1:00PM MT l LUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED (until the food runs out)
LIVE: MARQUEZ 126, 1600 ARAPAHOE STREET, GOLDEN, COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES (MAP)
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Since 2000, the US has spent over $400 billion on security assistance, and the rest of NATO has collectively spent over $100 billion on training and equipping foreign militaries as well. For much of the last two decades, Western security assistance emphasized the building up of security forces in weak states to conduct counterinsurgency and counterterrorism. However, as the US and the rest of NATO pivots towards preparations for conventional warfare and large-scale combat operations, notions of integrated deterrence in the era of great power competition are causing Western militaries to shift their emphasis on how to increase the military effectiveness of security forces they arm and advise. This presentation is based on fieldwork and over 500 interviews in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, Ukraine, and various military bases around the world.
Lieutenant Colonel Jahara ‘FRANKY’ Matisek (PhD) is a Military Professor in the National Security Affairs department at the US Naval War College and Research Fellow at the European Resilience Initiative Center. He is a US Air Force Command Pilot with over 3,700 hours of flight time in the C-17, E-11 BACN, T-6, and T-53. He has published 2 books and over 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals, policy relevant outlets, and edited volumes. He is Co-PI for two DOD Minerva research projects and has been a Fellow at the Homeland Defense Institute, Modern War Institute, and Irregular Warfare Initiative.