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Cyber Project Speaker Series with Brigadier General Leonard Anderson, Deputy Commander JTF ARES at USCYBERCOM

RSVP Required Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

In this discussion, Brigadier General "Loni" Anderson, Deputy Commander of Joint Task Force ARES at USCYBERCOM will discuss Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) in Cyberspace. 

To expand on what CVE means in cyberspace, Brig Gen Anderson was recently quoted saying, “When we don’t have drones or … we don’t have an actual task force or any other kinetic option, our only option to go in and get after these terrorists is going to be through non-kinetic means or through JTF-ARES.  With ISIS or really ISIS in any region, as we look at the possibility of U.S. forces even leaving, there’s opportunities for us at JTF-ARES.”

Date: Time: - Location: Suite 470
Brigadier General Leonard F. Anderson IV

About

Brigadier General Len “Loni” Anderson was commissioned in 1993 upon graduation from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He was designated a naval aviator in October of 1995 and selected to fly the F/A-18 Hornet.

Assignments in the Operating Forces include: Schedules Officer, Assistant Operations Officer and Weapons and Tactics Instructor, “Fabulous Checkerboards” of VMFA-312 while deployed on USS Enterprise and USS Truman during Operations SOUTHERN WATCH, DESERT FOX and DELIBERATE FORGE; Training Officer, MAG-31. In 2006, he transferred to the Marine Forces Reserve where he has served as the Assistant Operations Officer, Marine Aviation Training Support Group-42; Operations Officer, VMFA-112; and Commanding Officer, MALS-41.

Assignments in the Supporting Establishment include: Demonstration Pilot, Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron; Flight Instructor, VT-86; Operations Officer, Marine Aviation Training Support Group-41.

Headquarters and Staff Assignments: Senior Reserve Advisor, MAG-41; Reserve Branch Head, HQMC Aviation; Assistant Wing Commander, 4th Marine Aircraft Wing.

Joint assignments include two deployments in support of Operation INHERENT RESOLVE as the Deputy Director, Combined Joint Operations Center-Baghdad, Iraq and Battle Director, 609th Combined Air Operations Center, Qatar.

Brigadier General Anderson is a graduate of the Weapons and Tactics Instructor Course, the Navy Fighter Weapons School, Command and Staff College, Air War College and Advanced Joint PME.