‘Active deterrence’ in an age of strategic competition

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Join Lt. Gen. (rtd.) Doug Chalmers, The Lord Risby, and Lt. Gen. (rtd.) Eric Wesley as they discuss the future of ‘active deterrence’.

About this event

In March, Her Majesty’s Government released the long-awaited Integrated Review and Defence Command Paper. Both documents foresee a more geopolitically volatile era where major powers compete for influence, integrating their discursive, military, diplomatic and development instruments for maximum effect. Consequently, both documents advance a grand strategy predicated on active deterrence, whereby the United Kingdom forward deploys more of its own instruments for more of the time, in the Euro-Atlantic, the Indo-Pacific – even space – to maintain a British presence and to deter geopolitical competitors from revising the international order.

The Council on Geostrategy would like to invite you to join Lt. Gen. (rtd.) Doug Chalmers, The Lord Risby, and Lt. Gen. (rtd.) Eric Wesley as they discuss the future of ‘active deterrence’ in this current age of strategic competition and global power shifts.

Speakers

Lt. Gen. (rtd.) Doug Chalmers

• Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Strategy and Operations) (2016-2021)

James Rogers

• Co-founder and Director of Research, Council on Geostrategy

The Lord Risby

• Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to Algeria and Lebanon, House of Lords
• Chair, Advisory Council, Council on Geostrategy

Lt. Gen. (rtd.) Eric Wesley

• Deputy Commander, Army Futures Command, United States Army (2018-2020)

Moderator

Viktorija Starych-Samuolienė

• Co-founder and Director of Strategy, Council on Geostrategy

Venue

This event will be hosted online using Zoom.