The MoU signed yesterday between 🇺🇸 @FEMA & 🇸🇪 MSB - Myndigheten för samhällsskydd och beredskap by Administrator Deanne Criswell & DG Charlotte Petri Gornitzka represents an important step to strengthen and align plans and capabilities between the United States and Sweden when it comes to societal resilience and civil preparedness.

Thank you Committee for Defence of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands for the invitation to share insights from my work on resilience building (with Anika Binnendijk ). It was a pleasure to be part a distinguished panel w/ @CynthiaCook and Morgan Olofsson MSB - Myndigheten för samhällsskydd och beredskap

I am looking forward to discussing #resilience -building for potential #military #crisis during a Roundtable Discussion on Military Threats in Europe at the House of Representatives of the #Netherlands Defense Committee this Thursday, April 18. tweedekamer.nl/debat_en_verga…

RAND’s 2023 Annual Report included 2 of my reports, (1) Resisting Russia – Insights into Ukraine’s Civilian-based Actions During the First Four Months of the War in 2022, & (2) Great Power Competition and Conflict in Africa in their selected reading lists! rand.org/content/dam/ra…

Join RAND and PISM on Thursday, 4/25, for a discussion of why 2024 is a hinge year for assuring Ukraine's victory and the containment of Russia.

Register here: bit.ly/3TOVLbC

Great conversation today with #Estonian Minister of Defense Hanno Pevkur GU Security Studies . We discussed the changing security landscape, developments in #NATO , Russia's war in Ukraine, Estonian-U.S. security cooperation, and the West's relations with Russia and more.

Join me for a conversation with #Estonian Minister of #Defense Hanno Pevkur on contemporary security challenges at GU Security Studies on April 11. This event is open to students and members of Georgetown University community. RSVP using the link below.

Thank you Sara Bjerg Moller GU Security Studies Georgetown SFS for an excellent and insightful conference with a super line-up of speakers!

🇳🇴 #Norway today presented the new long-term #defence plan. Key takeaways from this 12 year (!) plan:
- 2% of GDP to be spent on defence in 2024
- 3% in 2036
- Navy to be modernized and expanded
- Army gets 2 new brigades (up from 1 today)
- Air defence to be more than doubled

📜✍️ 75 years ago, 12 countries united to guarantee each other’s freedom and security. These founding members signed the North Atlantic Treaty, and NATO was born.

Today, 32 Allies stood together as the Treaty was displayed at NATO HQ for the first time in history

#1NATO75years

Join me for a conversation with #Estonian Minister of #Defense Hanno Pevkur on contemporary security challenges at GU Security Studies on April 11. This event is open to students and members of Georgetown University community. RSVP using the link below.

I want to add context to Russian announcements of new units. Shoigu has periodically announced these types of changes in peacetime and then not staffed them (like in 2016). This is wartime, so it’s different. Keep an eye on it, but don’t take it at face value. A few thoughts 1/

Today we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the accession of #Estonia , #Latvia , #Lithuania , Slovenia, Slovakia, Romania, & Bulgaria to #NATO . With the recent accession of #Finland and #Sweden , the Nordic-Baltic region has grown in importance for NATO.

#Latvia 's journey to #NATO membership culminated on this day 20 years ago The White House - it was a great day for #NATO and for our 🇺🇸🇱🇻 partnership. #HistoryMatters #WeAreNATO #LV20NATO

#Publication | This report conveys the contributions of many panelists, including Stéphanie Martel 🦋 @smartel.bsky.social, the Honorable Senator Rebecca Patterson, Clare Hutchinson, Marc Ozawa, Dumitru Minzarari, Marta Kepe, Howard Coombs, Stéfanie von Hlatky, Dr. Yolande Bouka, Dr. Yannick Veilleux-Lepage, Leah West, General / Général Wayne Eyre and many others.

'Marta Kepe highlighted how grey zone & hybrid conflict evolved post-Cold War. Russia continues to conduct some form of Grey Zone & hybrid warfare; with the current attrition of Russia’s conventional military capability, it will turn increasingly to Grey Zone & hybrid methods.'

Story of communism’s attrocities & Lithuania’s path to freedom - must seen exhibit at Victims of Communism “50 years of Struggle for Freedom”

History lessons for Ukraine’s fight against Russia’s aggression - with strong will of people & US, allies leadership victory will be achieved!