The insight highlights the importance of getting the strategic vision right as a crucial starting point. It emphasizes the need for military leaders to ensure deterrence in modern warfare, especially in the face of evolving threats such as cyber attacks, space technologies, drones, AI, and robotics. The discussion underscores the challenge of deterrence in a world where attribution is difficult, but improving, and where traditional methods like mutually assured destruction may not be as effective.
Debate is a form of conflict that is played out through civility, and the capability to exchange ideas with people we disagree with. But what leads leaders and countries to fall into conflict? In this conversation with Retired U.S. Army General David H. Petraeus and historian Lord Andrew Roberts, guest moderator Xenia Wickett speaks with them about their new book, the nature of military conflict, and how civil debate and conflict are intertwined.
Our Guests:
General David H. Petraeus, U.S. Army Retired General; Chairman of the KKR Global Institute; Former CIA Director
Andrew Roberts, Biographer, Historian, and Member of the U.K. Parliament
Xenia Wickett, Geopolitical strategist and moderator at Wickett Advisory and Trustee of Transparency International UK, is the guest moderator.
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