ONLINE ONLY EVENT
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Thursday, April 9, 2026 - 3.30pm EST
Krasno Global Events Series
with
Dr. Michael O'Hanlon
(Director & Senior Fellow & Philip H. Knight Chair in Defense and Strategy, Brookings Institution, Washington, DC)
“To Dare Mighty Things:
The U.S. Restless Defense Strategy Then and Now"
Dr. Michael O'Hanlon
in conversation with Dr. Klaus Larres
Location - ZOOM:
https://zoom.us/j/98072415115
Michael O'Hanlon
Michael O’Hanlon is the inaugural holder of the Philip H. Knight Chair in Defense and Strategy and director of research in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution, where he specializes in U.S. defense strategy and budgets, the use of military force, and American national security policy. He is a senior fellow and directs the Strobe Talbott Center on Security, Strategy, and Technology. He co-directs the Africa Security Initiative as well. He also is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and Columbia University and was a member of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board from 2021 to 2025. He was also a member of the external advisory board at the Central Intelligence Agency from 2011-12. His newest book, timed to coincide with the nation’s 250th birthday, is “To Dare Mighty Things: U.S. Defense Strategy Since the Revolution”
(Yale Press, 2026). Michael O'Hanlon has also published many other books and his articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, The National Interest, Survival, Washington Quarterly, Joint Forces Quarterly, and International Security and others; he has also written hundreds of op-eds in major newspapers.
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