THE CHANGING ROLE OF THE US MILITARY

OUR PANELISTS 

MODERATOR, LEIGH HAFREY '73

Senior Lecturer,

MIT Sloan School of Management

Leigh Hafrey is Senior Lecturer in Behavioral and Policy Sciences at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Since 1995, he has offered courses in communication, ethics, and leadership in the MBA and other graduate programs in the U.S. and abroad. He has also taught at Harvard Business School; served as co-Master of Mather House in Harvard College; and since 1996 has moderated seminars in programs of the Aspen Institute, an international educational and policy studies organization focused on values-driven leadership.

A former staff editor at The New York Times Book Review, Hafrey has published translations, columns, feature articles, essays, reviews, and interviews in The New York Times and other periodicals, as well as blog posts and business case studies for MIT Sloan. He is the author of The Story of Success: Five Steps to Mastering Ethics in Business (2005) and War Stories: Fighting, Competing, Imagining, Leading (2016). He holds a B.A. from Harvard College and a Ph.D. from Yale University. See details here.

LTG (Ret.) DAVID W. BARNO

Professor of Practice

Johns Hopkins School of International Studies

Lieutenant General David Barno, USA (Ret.) is a Professor of Practice at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He completed a thirty-year military career in the U.S. Army where he commanded at every level in infantry and special operations units, culminating as the overall commander of all U.S. and coalition military forces in Afghanistan from 2003-2005. Following his military career, he served as the Director of the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies at the National Defense University, and later as a Senior Fellow and Co-Director of the Responsible Defense Program at the Center for a New American Security. He and Dr. Nora Bensahel co-author the Strategic Outpost column at War on the Rocks, and co-authored the 2020 book, Adaptation Under Fire, which analyzes how militaries change in wartime. He is a graduate of West Point and holds an M.A. in National Security Studies from Georgetown University.

JULIETTE KAYYEM

Professor, Harvard Kennedy School

CNN Senior National Security Analyst

In academia, private sector, government and media, Professor Juliette Kayyem is an international leader in crisis management and homeland security. Professor Kayyem serves as the faculty chair of the Homeland Security and Security and Global Health Projects at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Previously, she served as President Obama's Assistant Secretary at the Department of Homeland Security and as MA Governor Deval Patrick's Homeland Security Advisor.

An on-air CNN Senior National Security Analyst, Pulitzer Prize finalist, and contributing writer for The Atlantic and Boston's local NPR station, GBH, Kayyem also consults for governors, mayors, public and private institutions on crisis management. She is a Senior Advisor to Teneo, the global consulting firm, and founded her own consulting firm to support the preparedness needs of companies, from Fortune 500 to startups. She was named Inc. Magazine’s top 100 Female Founders in 2019 and received the Lifetime Achievement Pinnacle Award from the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce in 2023.

Juliette is the author or editor of six books, including her most recent "The Devil Never Sleeps: Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters” which was described in a New Yorker profile of her as an “engagingly urgent blueprint for rethinking our approach to disaster preparedness and response.” Juliette lives in Cambridge, MA with her husband, Judge David Barron, and has three children.

KORI SCHAKE

Director, Foreign and Defense Policy Studies

American Enterprise Institute

Kori Schake is a senior fellow and the director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).

Before joining AEI, Dr. Schake was the deputy director-general of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. She has had a distinguished career in government, working at the US State Department, the US Department of Defense, and the National Security Council at the White House. She has also taught at Stanford, West Point, Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, National Defense University, and the University of Maryland.

Dr. Schake is the author of five books, among them America vs the West: Can the Liberal World Order Be Preserved? (Penguin Random House Australia, Lowy Institute, 2018); Safe Passage: The Transition from British to American Hegemony (Harvard University Press, 2017); State of Disrepair: Fixing the Culture and Practices of the State Department (Hoover Institution Press, 2012); and Managing American Hegemony: Essays on Power in a Time of Dominance (Hoover Institution Press, 2009).

She is also the coeditor, along with former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, of Warriors & Citizens: American Views of Our Military (Hoover Institution Press, 2016).

Dr. Schake has been widely published in policy journals and the popular press, including in CNN.com, Foreign Affairs, Politico, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. She is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and War on the Rocks.

Dr. Schake has a PhD and MA in government and politics from the University of Maryland, as well as an MPM from the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. Her BA in international relations is from Stanford University.