To compete and thrive in the 21st century, democracies, and the United States in particular, must develop new national security and economic strategies that address the geopolitics of information. In the 20th century, market capitalist democracies geared infrastructure, energy, trade, and even social policy to protect and advance that era’s key source of power—manufacturing. In this century, democracies must better account for information geopolitics across all dimensions of domestic policy and national strategy.
Please join the Intelligence Project for a discussion with former Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, General Yair Golan to discuss the future of modern warfare from the Israeli perspective.
Intelligence Project Director Rolf Mowatt-Larssen will moderate.
Yair Golan is a major general in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), and the former Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces.
In an IDF career spanning nearly 37 years, his assignments have included commander of Northern Command, head of the IDF Operations Directorate, commander of the Judea and Samaria Division, and commander of the Home Front Command.
Yair Golan was a 2017 military fellow at The Washington Institute. He received his bachelor of arts in political science from Tel Aviv University and a master of public administration from Harvard University. Additionally, he is a graduate of both the IDF's Command and Staff College and the U.S. Army War College.
