Research, ideas, and leadership for a more secure, peaceful world
Speaker: Timothy Thomas, Foreign Military Studies Office, U.S. Army
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The talk will focus on certain aspects of the Chinese and Russian military approaches to cyber issues. With regard to China, these aspects include the instruction on cyber issues at Chinese universities, the link between ancient Chinese stratagems and cyber issues, notions of non-war military actions in the cyber age, Chinese terminologies for cyber issues, and the focus on upending financial plans of other countries. For Russia, the aspects include the development of an information security doctrine, the focus on the UN as a means to control cyber issues, the distinction between information-psychological and information-technical in thinking about cyber issues, the focus on cognitive issues and Russian cyber experiences in Chechnya and Georgia.
Timothy L. Thomas is an analyst at the Foreign Military Studies Office (FMSO) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He retired from the U.S. Army as a Lieutenant Colonel in the summer of 1993. Mr. Thomas received a B.S. from West Point and an M.A. from the University of Southern California. As a U.S. Army Foreign Area Officer, he specialized in Soviet/Russian studies, and his military assignments included the Director of Soviet Studies at the United States Army Russian Institute (USARI) in Garmisch, Germany; an inspector of Soviet tactical operations under CSCE; and a Brigade S2 and company commander in the 82nd Abn Division. Mr. Thomas has extensively researched and published in the areas of peacekeeping, information warfare, psychological operations, low intensity conflict, and political military affairs. He is the assistant editor of the journal European Security; an adjunct professor at the U.S. Army's Eurasian Institute; an adjunct lecturer at the USAF Special Operations School; and a member of two Russian organizations, the Academy of International Information, and the Academy of Natural Sciences.
This talk is part of the series “Cyber International Relations,” sponsored by the MIT’s Center for International Studies and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. The series will develop a multi-dimensional view of international conflict and cooperation within and regarding cyber space.
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