Dr Klaus Larres, Richard M Krasno Distinguished Professor of History & International Affairs at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, USA, and the Director of the Krasno Global Affairs & Business Council/Krasno Global Events Series has announced another in its Krasno Global Events Series at UNC-Chapel Hill. This time the event is organized as a conversation with Dr. Michael O'Hanlon, a foreign and defence policy expert from the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. It is scheduled to take place 9 April 2026 and is sure to be of interest to some.
It is an online event only.
ZOOM LINK: https://zoom.us/j/98072415115 (no registration or RSVP necessary)
The topic of the conversation is "“To Dare Mighty Things: The U.S. Restless Defense Strategy Then and Now" and is crafted around his book, “To Dare Mighty Things: U.S. Defense Strategy Since the Revolution” which is scheduled for release on the 250th anniversary of the founding of the Republic.
My own take on the current NDS strategy may be accessed here (Fleshing Out the America First Framework as Peace Through Strength Projections: Brief Reflections on the 2026 National Defense Strategy (US Department of War January 2026)); thoughts on the current NDS as an integral part of the America First project may be accessed here (The Conceptual Architecture of America First—Ideological Transactionalism and the Case of Cuba (discussion draft)).
More information follows below.
ONLINE ONLY EVENT
Zoom link for access: https://zoom.us/j/98072415115
(no RSVP necessary - just click the link)
Thursday, April 9, 2026 - 3.30pm EST
Krasno Global Events Series
with
Dr. Michael O'Hanlon
(Director & Senior Fellow & Philip H. Knight Chair in Defense and Strategy, Brookings Institution, Washington, DC)
“To Dare Mighty Things:
The U.S. Restless Defense Strategy Then and Now"
Dr. Michael O'Hanlon
in conversation with Dr. Klaus Larres
Location - ZOOM:
https://zoom.us/j/98072415115
Michael O'Hanlon
Michael
O’Hanlon is the inaugural holder of the Philip H. Knight Chair in
Defense and Strategy and director of research in the Foreign Policy
program at the Brookings Institution, where he specializes in U.S.
defense strategy and budgets, the use of military force, and American
national security policy. He is a senior fellow and directs the Strobe
Talbott Center on Security, Strategy, and Technology. He co-directs the
Africa Security Initiative as well. He also is an adjunct professor at
Georgetown University and Columbia University and was a member of the
Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board from 2021 to 2025. He was also a member
of the external advisory board at the Central Intelligence Agency from
2011-12. His newest book, timed to coincide with the nation’s
250th birthday, is “To Dare Mighty Things: U.S. Defense Strategy Since the Revolution”
(Yale
Press, 2026). Michael O'Hanlon has also published many other books and
his articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, The National Interest,
Survival, Washington Quarterly, Joint Forces Quarterly, and
International Security and others; he has also written hundreds of
op-eds in major newspapers.
Zoom link for accessing the event:
https://zoom.us/j/98072415115
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We are most grateful for the financial support of the UNC Peace, War
and Defense Curriculum (PWAD), the College of Arts and Sciences at UNC,
the Triangle Institute for Security Studies (TISS - https://tiss-nc.org/) and of course the UNC Department of History.
These sponsorships are greatly appreciated! ***
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