Global Government Leadership Russia 
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 9, 2020
The United States is reliant on a global supply chain for our goods, systems and services. Capturing market space versus Russia, for instance. It will enhance the defense industrial bases global competitiveness, and it will increase our supply chain export capability. I was 33 years in industry, before coming into government.
Steve Blank
JANUARY 14, 2021
One was a continuous refrain from senior DoD leadership that new tech, weapons, and operational concepts are insufficient to guarantee the U.S. Secondly, our senior military leadership recognizes that now more than ever we can’t go it alone. It called out China as a peer competitor to America, pursuing its goal of global dominance.
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Steve Blank
OCTOBER 9, 2020
In this session we provided the students with an appreciation of how the United States National Security Strategy arrived at the conclusion that we are in an era of great power competition with Russia and China. Russia at the time showed promising signs of moving closer to democracy. Optimism turns into reality. Fast forward to 2017.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
It’s worth considering the reasons why nations decline — they lose allies, a decline in economic power (the UK in the 20th Century); they lose interest in global affairs (China in the 15th Century); internal/civil conflicts (Russia in the 20th Century.) neglected strategic threats from China and a rearmed Russia.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
It’s worth considering the reasons why nations decline — they lose allies, a decline in economic power (the UK in the 20th Century); they lose interest in global affairs (China in the 15th Century); internal/civil conflicts (Russia in the 20th Century.) neglected strategic threats from China and a rearmed Russia.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 9, 2020
In this session we provided the students with an appreciation of how the United States National Security Strategy arrived at the conclusion that we are in an era of great power competition with Russia and China. Russia at the time showed promising signs of moving closer to democracy. Optimism turns into reality. Fast forward to 2017.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 5, 2020
Throughout the 1990s, we were focused on how to integrate China into the global system so that it would become a responsible stakeholder. Well first, the sense of urgency you do hear at the top among the Pentagon leadership is not necessarily fully shared throughout the bureaucracy – surprise, surprise. — On China.
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