The Ronald Graham Haycock Lecture in War Studies 2022

2022-02-16

Innovation: Opportunities and Risks

Wednesday 2 March 2022, 1900-2015 hrs via Zoom

The Annual Haycock Lecture guest speaker this year will be Dr. Stephen J. Mariano, who holds the position of Dean of the NATO Defence College. He earned a Ph.D. in War Studies from the Royal Military College of Canada, a M.S. in Strategic Planning, International Organizations, and Negotiations from the Naval Postgraduate School, and a B.A. in Mathematics and Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He taught military strategy and comparative military systems at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York as well as politics and U.S. foreign policy at the Royal Military College of Canada. He was formerly the U.S. Army War College Visiting Defence Fellow at Queen’s University’s Center for International Relations, the U.S. Army’s Senior Fellow at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and M.I.T. Seminar XXI Fellow. 

His career in the military services includes senior appointments with the Secretary of the Army, the U.S. Army Chief of Staff, and the U.S. Army’s Southern European Task Force. His deployed experience includes senior appointments in Iraq and Afghanistan. Dr. Mariano is a graduate of the U.S. Army Ranger School, U.S. Army Airborne School, U.S. Army Air Assault School, and French Centre Entraînement Commando #4.

Register for the virtual presentation and fill in the registration form. You will receive a Zoom link a couple of days prior to the session.

For this year’s Haycock Lecture, Dr. Mariano will present:
Innovation: Opportunities and Risks
In this lecture, Dr. Mariano will highlight that while we tend to associate innovation with technology, there are other factors that lead to innovation.

To Register for thevirtual presentation to be held on Wednesday, 2 March, at 1900 hrs EST:
1. Go to the registration page,
2. And Fill in the registration form.

You will receive a zoom link a couple of days prior to the session.

Questions can be directed to the Associate Chair of the War Studies Programme, LCol Andrew Brown
at andrew.brown@rmc.ca

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