Ten Years In: Implementing Strategic Approaches to Cyberspace examines a series of challenges for U.S. Cyber Command on the occasion of its tenth anniversary. The book includes essays from current Cyber Command officers as well as scholars who study the various uses of cyberspace for national security. Join us for a CSINT Conversation with several of the authors, moderated by CSINT Co-director Josh Rovner. Speakers include Dr. Jackie Schneider of Stanford University, Dr. Michael Warner of Cyber Command, Dr. Erica Borghard of the Atlantic Council, and Professor Nina Kollars of the Naval War College Cyber & Innovation Policy Institute. Speakers will field audience questions during this live session.

Our Panelists:

Prof. Josh Rovner

● Prof. Joshua Rovner is Associate Professor in the School of International Service at American University. Dr. Rovner is the author of Fixing the Facts: National Security and the Politics of Intelligence (Cornell University Press, 2011); and the co-editor of Chaos in the Liberal Order: The Trump Presidency and International Politics in the 21st Century (Columbia University Press, 2018). In addition to many articles and book chapters on intelligence and strategy, he writes a regular column at War on the Rocks. Dr. Rovner is the Managing Editor of H-Diplo's International Security Studies Forum, and Deputy Editor of The Journal of Strategic Studies. In 2018 and 2019 he served as Scholar-in-Residence at the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command.

Dr. Jacquelyn Schneider

● Dr. Jacquelyn Schneider is a Hoover Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Her research focuses on the intersection of technology, national security, and political psychology with a special interest in cybersecurity, unmanned technologies, and Northeast Asia. In addition to her position at Stanford, she is also a non-resident fellow at the Naval War College's Cyber and Innovation Policy Institute and a senior policy advisor to the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. She has a BA from Columbia University, MA from Arizona State University, and PhD from George Washington University.

Dr. Michael Warner

● Dr. Michael Warner serves as Command Historian at U.S. Cyber Command. He has written and lectured on cyber and intelligence history, theory, and reform and teaches as an adjunct professor at American University. His forthcoming book, The Use of Force for State Power: History and Future, is coauthored with John Childress. His most recent book, The Rise and Fall of Intelligence: An International Security History, was published in 2014. Other writings include “Intelligence in Cyber—and Cyber in Intelligence,” in Understanding Cyber Conflict, ed. Perkovich and Levite (Georgetown, 2017); “Notes on the Evolution of Computer Security Policy in the U.S. Government, 1965–2003,” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 37, no. 2 (April–June 2015); and “Cybersecurity: A Pre-history,” Intelligence and National Security 27, no. 5 (October 2012). Dr. Warner sits on the board of editors of the peer-reviewed journal Intelligence and National Security.

Dr. Erica Borghard

● Dr. Erica Borghard is a resident senior fellow with the New American Engagement Initiative at the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. Erica’s own work addresses US grand strategy, with a particular focus on the strategic implications of emerging technologies; public-private partnerships and resilience; and covert action and proxy warfare. Erica continues to serve as a senior director on the US Cyberspace Solarium Commission. Erica has published on topics ranging from grand strategy, cyber strategy and policy, coercion and military intervention, and international crisis bargaining. Erica received her PhD in Political Science from Columbia University. She is a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations and an adjunct research fellow at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University.

Professor Nina Kollars

● Dr. Nina Kollars is Associate Professor in the Cyber and Innovation Policy Institute at the U.S. Naval War College. She is a senior adjunct scholar at the Center for a New American Security; a fellow at the Brute Krulak Center at Marine Corps University; and an editorial board member for the Texas National Security Review. She publishes in both scholarly and policy-facing outlets on cybersecurity, hackers, and military innovation. Kollars is an active speaker and volunteer at hacker conferences to include BSides, ShmooCon, LayerOne, and DefCon. Her own hacker project "Confessions of a Nespresso Money Mule" was featured at DefCon 27. Kollars is also part of the executive board of the Educational Wargaming Cooperative.

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