PARTICIPANTS
Gary Roughead, Mike McCord, Roger Zakheim, David Berkey, John Cochrane, John Cogan, James Cunningham, Karl Eikenberry, David Fedor, Paul Gregory, Rick Hanushek, Adele Hayutin, Ken Judd, Hongbin Li, H.R. McMaster, Todd Mahar, Joseph Nye, Stephen Pifer, Daniel Sargent, George Shultz, Kiran Sridar, Tom Stephenson, Jim Timbie.

ISSUES DISCUSSED
Three commissioners of the National Defense Strategy Commission discussed the Commission’s assessment of the current National Defense Strategy. Gary Roughead, Commission’s co-chair and Robert and Marion Oster Distinguished Military Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Mike McCord, former Department of Defense Comptroller and Chief Financial Officer, and Roger Zakheim, former General Counsel and Deputy Staff Director of the House Armed Services Committee and current Washington Director of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation, offered insights on the Commission’s findings.

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Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Comparative Civics: Beyond Western Civ
The Alliance for Civics in the Academy hosts "Comparative Civics: Beyond Western Civ" with Dongxian Jiang, Shadi Bartsch, Simon Sihang Luo, and Peter… Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Thursday, January 22, 2026
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Immigration Policy and the Economics of Innovation
This conference will explore the critical intersection of immigration policy and technological innovation in the United States, with a particular…
Wednesday, September 23, 2026
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Fourth International Workshop on Japanese Diaspora
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