CSF 2024 | Panel 1: Maritime Statecraft – Past, Present, and Future

Panel 1: Maritime Statecraft – Past, Present, and Future
Moderator: Dr. John H. Maurer, U.S. Naval War College
Dr. Paul M. Kennedy, Yale University
Dr. Toshi Yoshihara, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments
Dr. Emily O. Goldman, U.S. Cyber Command

Dr. John H. Maurer serves as the Alfred Thayer Mahan Distinguished Professor of Sea Power and Grand Strategy at the U.S. Naval War College. He is a graduate of Yale College and holds a MALD and PhD in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He is the author or editor of books examining the outbreak of the First World War, military interventions in the developing world, naval competitions and arms control between the two world wars, a study on Winston Churchill and British grand strategy. His most recent book is an edited volume of essays published by the Naval Institute Press, The Road to Pearl Harbor: Great Power War in Asia and the Pacific. At the College, he served for eight years as Chairman of the Strategy and Policy Department. He teaches in the Advanced Strategy Program and an elective course on Winston Churchill and the history of the two world wars. Before coming to the College, he held the positions of research fellow and executive editor of Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He served on the Secretary of the Navy John Lehman’s special advisory committee on naval history.

Dr. Paul M. Kennedy is the Dilworth Professor of History, founding director of Yale International Security Studies, distinguished fellow of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy, fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2000 for services to History. He teaches Yale’s course “Military History of the West since 1500,” as well as numerous seminars on Great Power politics. He has published or edited 19 books on the history of British foreign policy and Great Power struggles. His best-known work, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, has been translated into over twenty languages. Prof. Kennedy’s most recent book Engineers of Victory, history through the eyes of problem-solvers during the Second World War, was published in 2013. He is currently writing a book about seapower and global transformations during World War II.

Dr. Toshi Yoshihara is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA). He was previously the inaugural John A. van Beuren Chair of Asia-Pacific Studies and a Professor of Strategy at the U.S. Naval War College. Dr. Yoshihara’s latest book is Mao’s Army Goes to Sea: Island Campaigns and the Founding of China’s Navy (Georgetown University Press, 2022). A Japanese translation of Mao’s Army Goes to Sea was published by Fusosha in 2023. He co-authored, with James R. Holmes, the second edition of Red Star over the Pacific: China's Rise and the Challenge to U.S. Maritime Strategy (Naval Institute Press, 2018). The book has been listed on the Chief of Naval Operations Professional Reading Program, the Indo-Pacific Command Professional Development Reading List, and the Commandant of the Marine Corps Professional Reading Program. The first edition of Red Star over the Pacific (Naval Institute Press, 2010) was translated in Japan, China, South Korea, Taiwan, and Germany.
His CSBA publications include Chinese Lessons from the Pacific War: Implications for PLA Warfighting (2023); Rings of Fire: A Conventional Missile Strategy for a Post-INF Treaty World (2022); Seizing on Weakness: Allied Strategy for Competing with China’s Globalizing Military (2021); and Dragon Against the Sun: Chinese Views of Japanese Seapower (2020). Dragon Against the Sun was subsequently translated by Admiral Tomohisa Takei, JMSDF (ret.), the former Chief of the Maritime Staff, and published by a major Japanese press in September 2020.

Dr. Emily O. Goldman serves as a strategist at U.S. Cyber Command and a thought leader on cyber policy. She was cyber advisor to the Director of Policy Planning at the Department of State, 2018–19. From 2014 to 2018 she directed the U.S. Cyber Command / National Security Agency Combined Action Group, leading a team that wrote the 2018 U.S. Cyber Command vision, Achieve and Maintain Cyberspace Superiority. She has also worked as a strategic communications advisor for U.S. Central Command and for the Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the State Department. She was a Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis, for two decades and has published and lectured widely on strategy, cybersecurity, arms control, military history and innovation, and organizational change. Cyber Persistence Theory: Redefining National Security in Cyberspace, co-authored with Michael Fischerkeller and Richard Harknett, was released by Oxford University Press in May 2022.