Join distinguished diplomats, senior policymakers, and global thought leaders for a pivotal event focused on the future of international security and cooperation. The conference will unveil a bold National Security Strategy and host high-level discussions on strengthening strategic alliances across key global regions.
Please join us for a presentation from Gold Institute senior fellow John Wohlstetter on increasingly urgent issues surrounding presidential succession, the 25th Amendment, and new presidential and senior official protection measures.
By: Geoffrey Van Orden CBE, Distinguished Fellow
The idea of a European Army without American involvement has been a French obsession since the 1950s. To provide some additional justification, President Macron developed the terms “European sovereignty” and “EU strategic autonomy”- two essentially meaningless but inevitably divisive concepts that can only please Moscow.
"Europeans are searching for new potentials to supply gas to Europe," said Nahro Zagros, a non-resident senior fellow at the Washington-based Gold Institute for International Strategy.
"The KRG (Kurdistan Regional Government) can be one of these potentials. Having said that the KRG cannot fill the whole vacuum that Russians will leave in Europe, but it can help in some ways, and this cannot be achieved without Turkish support," he added.
By: John C. Wohlstetter, Senior Fellow
Recently, scholar Mark Galeotti published Peace, Partition or Stalemate, assessing prospective scenarios for how the war started by Vladimir Putin might end. The peace outcome will almost certainly entail that Russia keep some of its gains in the east, and possibly the southeast as well. Partition would give Russia formal sovereignty over those areas under its sway. A stalemate would translate into a protracted low-intensity counterinsurgency locked in a long, twilight struggle, either alongside the current Ukraine government, or its successor. Conversely, if Russia extends its gains to Kyiv, the insurgents would fight allied with a Ukrainian government-in-exile (based in western Ukraine or Poland) against a pro-Russian government puppet installed in Kyiv by its Moscow masters.
During his eight-year reign, Barack Obama transformed the US national security, intelligence, and law enforcement bureaucracies as no other president in history, advancing a policy of US diminishment that has undermined our global primacy to this day.
In The Insider Threat, Adam Lovinger draws on more than ten years of experience at the Pentagon to explain how the Obama administration orchestrated this coup.
The South China Sea has emerged as a central arena for strategic competition, presenting formidable security, economic, and political challenges. With China's intensifying claims in the region and strategic tactics aimed at asserting dominance, the region’s stability and ASEAN’s response remain in question. This event will analyze the evolving geopolitical landscape, China's influence, and the response of ASEAN nations in the face of increasing tension.
John Wohlstetter traces the history from the 1787 founding of the American constitutional republic to the present. He covers the relevant provisions of the Constitution, associated laws, and how they worked in practice. John also traces the history of presidential protection, with special emphasis on the evolving role of the Secret Service, plus sections on continuity of government and mass casualty events. Wohlstetter offers conclusions and recommendations for addressing unresolved problems.
