Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, NATO has been steadily focused on the immediacy of the situation, as members are working steadily to boost their own military spending and increase their production to support Ukraine’s defense. Though for years NATO has worked on concepts around strategic visions for the future, most recently in its NATO 2030 initiative, the reality of the course of the Russia-Ukraine War may dictate very different paths for NATO’s future. As the war may end in unpredictable fashion, join ASP as we discuss what a future NATO may look like.
Speakers:
Lieutenant General Daniel Christman, USA (Ret.), ASP Board Member
Lieutenant General Daniel Christman retired after a distinguished 36 year Army career, culminating in a final assignment as Superintendent of the US Military Academy at West Point. Christman later served as Senior Vice President for International Affairs at the US Chamber of Commerce. He has also served as President and Executive Director of the Kimsey Foundation. During his tenure with the U.S. Army he was the assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and represented the United States as a member of NATO’s Military Committee in Brussels, Belgium.
Rose Gottemoeller, Steven C. Házy Lecturer, Freeman Spogli Institute, Stanford University
Rose Gottemoeller is a Lecturer at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Research Fellow at the Hoover Institute. Before joining Stanford Gottemoeller was the Deputy Secretary General of NATO from 2016 to 2019, where she helped to drive forward NATO’s adaptation to new security challenges in Europe and in the fight against terrorism. Prior to NATO, she served for nearly five years as the Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security at the U.S. Department of State, advising the Secretary of State on arms control, nonproliferation and political-military affairs. While Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control, Verification and Compliance in 2009 and 2010, she was the chief U.S. negotiator of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) with the Russian Federation.
Ambassador Douglas Lute, Lieutenant General, USA (Ret.), Consensus for American Security
LTG Douglas Lute, USA (Ret.) is the former United States Ambassador to NATO. Appointed by President Obama, he assumed the Brussels-based post in 2013 and served until 2017. During this period, he was instrumental in designing and implementing the 28-nation Alliance responses to the most severe security challenges in Europe since the end of the Cold War. A career Army officer, in 2010 Lute retired from active duty as a lieutenant general after 35 years of service. In 2007 President Bush named him as Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor to coordinate the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
