The Economist’s Shashank Joshi on Defense & the Future of War

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, NATO’s rearmament program, China’s nuclearization, the evolution of technology and the arrival of artificial intelligence, and more, are all challenging long-held assumptions of war and its changing character. How will future wars be fought? Are we entering a new era of nuclear proliferation? Is the taboo on nuclear weapons eroding? How will technology impact the future of warfare? Will we see truly autonomous weapon systems? Is cyberwarfare already here or is it over-hyped? To explore these questions, and more, CSPC is delighted to host Shashank Joshi, the defence editor of the Economist. Joshi will be in conversation with Joshua C. Huminski, the Director of the Mike Rogers Center for Intelligence & Global Affairs.

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Shashank Joshi is The Economist‘s defence editor. Prior to joining The Economist in 2018, he served as Senior Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) and Research Associate at Oxford University’s Changing Character of War Programme. He has published books on Iran’s nuclear programme and India’s armed forces, written for a wide range of newspapers and journals, and appeared regularly on radio and television. He holds degrees from Cambridge and Harvard, where he served as a Kennedy Scholar from Britain to the United States