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ABD Başkanı Donald Trump daha önce yaptığı bir açıklamada Amerika'nın Suriye'de bir işi olmadığını söylemiş, asker çekme konusunu ise “belirsiz” bırakmıştı. Trump ilk Başkanlık döneminde Suriye'deki Amerikan askerlerinin bir kısmını geri çekmişti. Bu çekme işlemine tepki gösteren dönemin Savunma Bakanı James Mattis ise görevinden istifa etmişti. ABD'nin geniş Ortadoğu havzasından sorumlu “Merkez Kuvvetler Komutanlığı (CENTCOM)” Suriye'deki sözde askeri misyonun devam etmesini istiyor. 2013 yılında CENTCOM Komutanlığı'ndan emekli olan Mattis 2017'de Savunma Bakanlığına getirilmişti. Trump Suriye'den asker çekmeye başladığında “CENTCOM”un başında Joseph Votel bulunuyordu. Votel ve Mattis Suriye'den asker çekme kararından vazgeçmesi için Trump'ı ikna edememişti.

For decades the Middle East has been America's top national security challenge.From terrorism, to war, to regional instability, it takes more than a military effort to find solutions.As America navigates one of the most volatile times in history, Fran Racioppi sat down with retired General Joseph Votel, one of America's most influential leaders and scholars in Middle East policy. General Votel served as Commander of United States Special Operations Command, US Central Command, Joint Special Operations Command and 75th Ranger Regiment; organizations critically responsible for America's Middle East operations. General Votel unpacked the reasons why Hamas chose to attack Israel, Iran's malign influence, and the responsibility of the other Gulf states in preventing regional instability. He also broke down the opportunities the United States has across the diplomatic, information, military and economic spectrum; including America's ability to mobilize for a peer-to-peer fight. Plus he talked all things Ranger Regiment, the officer-NCO relationship, and keys to effective leadership. Take a listen, watch, or read our conversation with one the Army's most respected leaders then head over to our YouTube channel or your favorite podcast platform to catch up on our entire national security series from Washington, DC and Fort Liberty, NC. Highlights:0:00 Welcome to Odgers Berndtson3:07 The rise of China and Russia13:47 Why is Iran on the offensive?21:14 Using the elements of National Power24:34 The impacts of the Israel-Gaza War32:55 General Votel's call to serve42:35 Advice to new leaders47:42 How the NCO corps separates the US military 56:46 The role of Special Forces in the peer-to-peer fight1:05:09 Solving the recruiting challenge1:13:28 General Votel's Three Daily FoundationsQuotes: “In a word, they've had it and they're trying to reassert themselves.” “Putin has pretty much told us what he wants to do. He wants to eclipse the United States.” “The Gulf partners, the other Arab states, aren't that keen on having a new Palestinian state in the region.”“We have over-militarized a lot of our foreign policy in these areas. We need to be leading with diplomacy.”“If you open these humanitarian corridors, are you arming your adversary?” “When I showed up to West Point…instant buyer's remorse.” “To me, leadership has really become about the basics.” “I had a Sergeant Major. Bill Thetford. We were together for eight plus years; longer than the average American marriage.” The Jedburgh Podcast and the Jedburgh Media Channel are an official program of The Green Beret Foundation. Learn more on The Jedburgh Podcast Website. Subscribe to us and follow @jedburghpodcast on all social media. Watch the full video version on YouTube.Special thanks to Odgers Berndtson for hosting this conversation.

Iran's activities have been at the forefront of global events in recent months. Tehran's proxies have launched multiple missile strikes into neighbouring countries and have targeted the U.S. military, whilst the Houthis in Yemen have brought global maritime trade to a standstill. Join Dr. Sajjan Gohel and former CENTCOM Commander Joseph Votel in episode 54 of NATO DEEP Dive to unpack these issues and more. Full transcripts for each episode can be found at:⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://deepportal.hq.nato.int/eacademy/deep-dive-podcasts/⁠⁠⁠⁠   Follow DEEP Dive to stay up to date with each new upload.

As Israel's war to unseat Hamas in the Gaza Strip grinds into its second month, the former top US military commander in the Middle East, Gen. Joseph Votel (ret.), says the hardest fighting is yet to come. While the IDF appears to be implementing some of Washington's advice by allowing for the flow of humanitarian aid and civilian evacuation corridors, there remains real risk that Iran-backed militias throughout the region may escalate reckless attacks that could draw the United States into another war. Ultimately, there must be a postwar political solution for Gaza and a re-calibration of US military presence in the Middle East to deter Iran, Votel argues.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Piše: Miša Gams Bereta: Renato Horvat in Eva Longyka Marušič Gladke platnice z zaokroženimi, mehkimi robovi dajejo slutiti, da se v pesniški zbirki Ive Jevtić Milost nahaja posebne vrste subtilnost. In čeprav nas avtoričin pesniški izraz zaloti na nek način nepripravljene, saj za prvim vtisom miline zagledamo celo paleto kognitivnih sprožilcev, ki med branjem porajajo serijo najrazličnejših čustev – od otroškega čudenja in gnusa do zenovske lahkotnosti – se pesnica spretno izogiba kroženju okrog diametralno nasprotnih čustvenih polov s preusmerjanjem pozornosti na retorično-metaforične uganke in duhovito-poučne silogizme. Lahko bi rekli, da pesniški subjekt prehaja iz ednine v dvojino, iz dvojine v množino in nazaj v ednino, od individualnega in zavestnega v kolektivno in arhetipsko, ki ga nadvse inovativno vplete z variacijami ljudskih pregovorov, interpretacij metafor in zgodovinsko-antropološkimi podatki. Zbirka Milost se po tematiki navezuje na prvenec Težnost – išče povezave med človekom, ki je v svojem bistvu nepopisan list papirja, in Drugim, ki se kaže bodisi kot sotrpeče bitje, bodisi kot del večplastnega prepleta narave in družbe, bodisi kot prazen označevalec brez označenca – strukturni manko, ki omogoča, da jezik na simbolni ravni lahko funkcionira. Prav subtilno poigravanje z jezikom, ki konstruira našo družbeno realnost in jo razgibava z metaforami in drugimi pesniškimi figurami, je odlika poetike Ive Jevtić. V pesmi Metafora zapiše: “Bolečino opišemo z orodjem, / ki nam jo nanaša o s t r a / k o t r e z i l o, topa kot / udarec” … in v istem hipu poda vzporednico z zgodovinskim dogodkom: “... Falaris, tiran, je kaz- / njence usmrtil v drobovju bro- / nastega bika, pod katerim so / prižgali ogenj. Namesto krikov / se je slišalo iz gobca blejanje / goveda, rukanje namesto raz- / beljene resnice.” Na številnih mestih se prepletajo prostor, telo in narava, na primer v pesmi Ribe: “Stvari so urejene, najprej pros- / tor nato koža in spet prostor. / Prostor, koža, prostor: jasen / razpored reči. A recimo, ne- / kega dne, recimo, da telo boli, / da gori. In je novi red stvari: / koža, prostor, prostor. Votel jaz / in okoli o p na v o d e, / v njej pa modre in srebrne ribe.” V pesmi z naslovom Jezdec išče vzporednice med vzgojo pravilne telesne drže, ki so jo stari Grki imeli za znak značaja, ter povezovanjem dreves in dojenčkov “da ne bi zrasli v krivo drevo”. Pri tem ima pred sabo sliko stabilnega jezdeca, ki mora brezhibno poznati konjevo težišče, da se obdrži v sedlu: “Konje so vadili, da so imeli / težišče zadaj in lažje izvajali / p o s k o k i n p o k l o n, / princu v pozdrav so jezdeci / dvignili konja na zadnje noge / in nato še v skok z brco nazaj. / Jezditi so morali dobro in lepo, / kot Mars, v spomin na nasilje, / ki je zgradilo imperij in pokonč- / nost duha.” Poleg velikih zavojevalcev in najrazličnejših kolonizatorjev omenja tudi barone in plemiče, ki so z drobnimi detajli na nek perverzen način interpretirali tok zgodovine – v pesmi Antiteza na primer komentira oblačenje plemstva: “Francoski plemiči so v porog / revoluciji okrog vratu nosili rde- / če rute, v s p o mi n na / giljo t in o. Nekaj so imeli, / kjer bi moral biti nič.” V pesmi Cekin, ki nastopi za Antitezo, pa nadaljuje razpredanje o tem, kako se onkraj niča nahaja nič, ki se “spomni, da bi moral biti nekaj”, zanj pa je značilno: “Žre se, da bi se ustva- / ril, in prikliče, da bi spet bil nič. / Jé praznino in izloča mit.” V pesmih na koncu zbirke Milost, Jevtićeva omenja bolj ali manj znane alkimiste in astrologe – med drugim Simona Formana in Paracelsusa – ter v krajših pesniških refleksijah z naslovi Alkimija, Pozaba, Ogenj, Skrivnost in Zmaj obuja mitološke in mistične vidike Kosovelove sintagme “gnoj je zlato”. Na kratko se v pesmi Nimb pomudi tudi pri kabali: “Na vrhu vsake travne bilke, / pravi Zohar, je a n g e l, / ki ji prigovarja, naj naraste. / Včasih komaj uide lačnim gob- / cem konj.” Oblikovno gledano so pesmi Ive Jevtić pravi interdisciplinarni eseji v malem, v katerih se prepletajo antropološka, zgodovinska, filozofska in psihološka perspektiva. Pesnica skozi mikrokozmos bizarnih povzetkov išče ontološko prapočelo in obenem primaren vzgib za igranje z jezikom oziroma s poezijo. Nekoliko ironično se poigrava tudi z ljudskimi reki in pregovori – v pesmi Spalci zapiše: “V množici je noč”, v pesmi Baron von Hohenfall samostalnik mladost nadomesti z norostjo: “Norost je norost, v vodo ska- / če, kjer je most” in na koncu poda življenjsko ugotovitev: “Enkrat te / prestreže Devica Marija, drugič / padeš na kup gnoja. Včasih se / poženeš v čisti nič.” Čeprav sta med obema zbirkama Ive Jevtič minili skoraj desetletji, je v njiju mogoče začutiti podobno razmišljanje in občutja, le da Milost razkriva še nekoliko bolj metafizičen in paradoksalen pogled na svet. Ne preseneča nas, ko Sonja Dular v spremni besedi zapiše: “Od Težnosti k Milosti, to bi bil lahko tudi moto, napotek za življenje kot tako.” V slovenskem literarnem prostoru je zbirka Ive Jevtić Milost kot redek studenec v puščavi, saj nam poleg nadvse izvirnega pesniškega stila, ki se kaže tudi v domiselni grafični podobi pesmi, ponuja veliko iztočnic za iskanje stičišč med zgodovinskim oziroma kolektivnim in osebnim spominom.

Host Jon Olson talks with retired US Army General Joseph Votel, who commanded both US Special Operations Command and US Central Command. He now leads Business Executives for National Security (BENS). They discuss a variety of national security challenges and opportunities, including how BENS helps drive better national security decision-making and defense acquisition efforts.

 Host Jon Olson talks with retired US Army General Joseph Votel, who commanded both US Special Operations Command and US Central Command. He now leads Business Executives for National Security (BENS). They discuss a variety of national security challenges and opportunities, including how BENS helps drive better national security decision-making and defense acquisition efforts. 

Our first podcast is an interview with General (Ret.) Joseph Votel. General Votel is recently retired from the United States Army after a 39 year career. The last position he held was as the Commander of US Central Command from March 2016 to March 2019.

April showers can't take his powers. It's the return of Finders Keepers' Andy Votel and his Songs of Insolence. On episode 39 (!) of Songs of Insolence, Votel will tempt you with the contemptuous and impart the impertinent. Starting with overambitious motivational music. Why not?

A retired four-star general, General Joseph Votel oversaw the War on Terror and led the coalition that liberated Iraq and Syria from ISIS. Over a military career that spanned nearly four decades, General Votel served as commander of United States Central Command and as commander of the United States Special Operations Command, where he oversaw all Special Operations forces. General Votel joins Adam to share his journey and best lessons learned along the way.

General Joseph Votel spoke with BENS DC member Dr. Kathleen Kiernan, President of NEC National Security Systems (NSS). Dr. Kiernan is a former Assistant Director of the ATF, where she served 29 years and blazed the trail for women rising to positions of leadership at the Bureau. Throughout the conversation, Votel and Dr. Kiernan discuss her experiences in advancing diversity and inclusion within the federal law enforcement talent pool, her facilitation of critical incident management exercises for government and private sector organizations, launching the new NEC division developing powerful biometric, AI and machine learning technologies, and more.

In this episode Suzanne welcomes General Joseph L. Votel U.S. Army (Ret.) to the State Secrets podcast.  Votel is now the President & CEO of the Business Executives for National Security (BENS) organization.  This conversation covers General Votel's perspective on the ongoing Russia-Ukraine crisis and alot more, including the most pressing issues BENS is focused on in partnerhip with the US Government.  

General Joseph Votel spoke with BENS Chicago member Jennifer Pritzker, founder of Tawani Foundation and Pritzker Military Museum & Library which works to increase the public's understanding of military history, military affairs and national security by providing a forum for the study and exploration of our military past, present, and future. Pritzker is a retired Illinois Army National Guard Lieutenant Colonel, previously served on active duty in the U.S. Army, and is a prominent investor and philanthropist. Throughout the conversation, Votel and Pritzker discuss her background and military service, the importance of military advocacy, and her lifelong interest in collecting and archiving military books and memorabilia.

The 24th Annual Pearl Harbor Day Lecture. About the lecture: The discussion will examine the current security environment, the growth of Chinese military capabilities, and efforts by the United States and its allies and partners to strengthen deterrence and compete more effectively below the threshold of armed conflict. About the speaker: General Joseph L. Votel is a retired U.S. Army Four Star officer and most recently the Commander of the U.S. Central Command – responsible for U.S. and coalition military operations in the Middle East, Levant and Central and South Asia. During his 39 years in the military, he commanded special operations and conventional military forces at every level. His career included combat in Panama,Afghanistan and Iraq. Notably, he led a 79-member coalition that successfully liberated Iraq and Syria from the Islamic State Caliphate. He preceded his assignment at CENTCOM with service as the Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command and the Joint Special Operations Command. Votel was recognized with the Distinguished Military Leadership Award from the Atlantic Council, the U.S. – Arab Defense Leadership Award from the National Council on U.S. – Arab Relations, the Patriot Award from the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, the SGT James T. Regan Lifetime Achievement Award from the “Lead the Way” Foundation and the Freedom Award from the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum. In January of 2020, General Votel became President & CEO of Business Executives for National Security (BENS). He is a Strategic Advisor for Sierra Nevada Corporation as well as a member of the Board of Trustees for Noblis Corporation. Votel is a nonresident Distinguished Fellow at the Middle East Institute and the Belfer Center at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and advises the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. He sits on the Executive Board of Freedom House and the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL). He serves on the Board of Directors for Service to School, Minnesota Wire, Digital Force Technologies and Owl Cyber Defense. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Votel is a 1980 graduate of the United States Military Academy and earned master's degrees from the U.S. Army Command and Staff College and the Army War College. He is married to Michele; and they have two grown sons, a daughter-in-law and two grandchildren. The Votels reside in Lake Elmo, Minnesota.

Have a sense of adventure and wanderlust? You are going to LOVE today's guest! Celena has been one of my fave people and fellow rebels in the industry to chat with since we have such similar lifestyles & a unique outlook on life! She has been a traveling and nomadic massage therapist & esthetician since 18, and is an overall BADASS who has worked in every environment from a chiropractor's office to resort spas to cruise ships. We give a few tips on how to find and land these seasonal jobs, as well as the right questions to ask a potential employer. Celena and I also chat about our different travel styles and confessed a few things about what it's like working on-the-go and what all to look out for. Resources mentioned: CoolWorks.com TrustedHousesitters.com (30% off discount) SOCIALS: Instagram: Badass Bodyworkers Facebook: Badass Bodyworkers & Nomadic Bodyworkers Celena Votel on FB

The collapse of the Afghan government and the Taliban's takeover of the country have dominated headlines around the world this week. General Joseph Votel (USA ret.) is President and CEO of Business Executives for National Security. He's former commander of U-S Central Command and Special Operations Command. He reviews how we got here, what we learned, and what we should do next to make sure we don't make the same mistakes in the future.

General Votel interviews BENS Chicago member Dr. Suzet McKinney, Principal and Director of Life Sciences for commercial real estate developer Sterling Bay. In this role, McKinney helps create urban campus labs and research environments optimized for quality of life. She shares perspectives from her work as a former public health official and educator who literally wrote the book about emergency response (Public Health Emergency Preparedness: A Practical Approach for the Real World.) Votel and McKinney discuss lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic response, decompressing the health care system in Illinois through alternative care facilities, and the intersection of national security and commercial real estate.

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The US was rated as “best positioned to respond to a pandemic,” yet it has struggled in its fight against COVID. General Joseph Votel (Business Executives for National Security) joins CareTalk to discuss where the US went wrong. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/9hTULqiipdQ About Gen. Joseph Votel: Continuing his long, distinguished career of service and senior leadership, General Votel today serves as President and CEO of Business Executives for National Security (BENS) – a national, nonprofit comprised of senior business and industry executives who volunteer their time and expertise to assist the U.S. national security community. In this role, General Votel leads a driven, multidisciplinary staff – spread across seven regional offices – and advises and executes on the strategy put forth by the BENS Board of Directors and the organization's 400+ dedicated members.General Votel joined BENS in January 2020 following a 39-year military career where he commanded special operations and conventional forces at every level; last serving as the Commander of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) where he was responsible for U.S. and coalition military operations in the Middle East, Levant, and Central and South Asia. General Votel's career included combat in Panama, Afghanistan, and Iraq. And he notably led the 79-member coalition that successfully liberated Iraq and Syria from the Islamic State Caliphate. General Votel preceded his assignment at CENTCOM with service as the Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command and the Joint Special Operations Command.#BENS #COVID #Healthcare #Vaccine #HealthcareBusiness #HealthcarePolicy

It’s truly an honor to bring General (Ret.) Joseph Votel on the Intentional Leader podcast for episode 61. On this episode, he gives us a masterclass on personal management and organizational leadership. General Votel currently serves as President and CEO of Business Executives for National Security (BENS) – a national, nonprofit composed of senior business and industry executives who volunteer their time and expertise to assist the U.S. national security community. He retired in 2019 after 39 years of military service. His last assignment was as the commander of United States Central Command (CENTCOM) from March 2016 to March 2019. As CENTCOM commander, Votel oversaw the United States' continued War on Terrorism in the Middle East, particularly the Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve's fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant terror organization, which rose to prominence in 2014. General Votel officially retired on March 28, 2019, five days after the decisive Battle of Baghuz Fawqani, which saw the territorial collapse of the Islamic State in Syria. Before that, he served as commander of the United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM). Votel's initial assignments were to the 3rd Infantry Division in Germany, where he served as a rifle platoon leader, executive officer, battalion adjutant, and rifle company commander. Following this tour, he was assigned to Headquarters, Allied Forces Southern Europe – Naples, Italy, and the NATO Peace Implementation Force (IFOR) in Sarajevo. He commanded the 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry (Light) at Fort Drum, New York, and afterward, he commanded the 1st Ranger Battalion. Later he commanded the 75th Ranger Regiment, during Operation Enduring Freedom. On 19 October 2001, Votel led 200 Rangers from 3rd Battalion, who parachuted towards an airfield south of Kandahar in an operation known as Operation Rhino and attacked several Taliban targets. As a general officer, Votel served in the Pentagon as the Director of the Army and Joint Improvised Explosive Device (IED) Defeat Task Force and subsequently as the Deputy Director of the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization established under the Deputy Secretary of Defense. He also served as the Deputy Commanding General (Operations), 82nd Airborne Division / CJTF-82, Operation Enduring Freedom, Afghanistan, and was subsequently assigned as the Deputy Commanding General of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). He next served as the Commanding General of the Joint Special Operations Command. On this episode, we cover a lot of ground. We discuss the leaders he admires the most, some of the most important leadership lessons he learned from working with Secretary Jim Mattis, General (Ret.) Stanley McChrystal, and Admiral (Ret.) William McRaven, what he most looks for when hiring someone to join his team or organization, what is most unique about the Special Operations community that he has worked in for so long, how he stayed sharp over his 40 year career, and a lightning round of questions at the end. For more episodes, visit https://calwalters.me/ 

General Joseph Votel (U.S. Army, Ret.) provides a candid discussion on the challenges of strategic decision-making and risk management. He also emphasizes the importance of role modeling in leadership, highlighting some of the role models who shaped his career.

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Guests:Risa Brooks is the Allis Chalmers Associate Professor of Political Science at Marquette University and a non-resident Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.Joseph L. Votel is a retired four-star general in the U.S. Army and previously served as Commander of U.S. Central Command and U.S. Special Operations Command. Votel is currently a non-resident Senior Fellow here at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center and he is also the President and CEO of Business Executives for National Security.International Security Article:This podcast is based on Risa Brooks, “Paradoxes of Professionalism: Rethinking Civil-Military Relations in the United States,” International Security, Vol. 44, No. 4 (Spring 2020), pp. 7–44.Related Readings:Celeste Ward Gventer, Jessica D. Blankshain, Raphael S. Cohen, Lindsay P. Cohn, Paul Eaton, Lauren Fish, “Policy Roundtable: Civil-Military Relations Now and Tomorrow,” Texas National Security Review, March 27, 2018.Risa Brooks, “What Can Military and Civilian Leaders Do to Prevent the Military’s Politicization,” War on the Rocks, April 27, 2020.Joseph Votel, “An Apolitical Military Is Essential to Maintaining Balance among American Institutions,” Military Times, June 8, 2020.Jim Golby, “America’s Politicized Military Is a Recipe for Disaster,” Foreign Policy, June 18, 2020.Alice Hunt Friend, “A Military Litmus Test? Evaluating the Argument that Civilian Defense Leaders Need Military Experience,” Just Security, August 19, 2020.

General (Ret.) Joseph Votel and Professor Claire Finkelstein sit down on Case in Point to discuss the General's article for the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law, "An apolitical military is essential to maintaining balance among American institutions." https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/news/10127-an-apolitical-military-is-essential-to-maintaining/news/cerl-news

General Votel and Ambassador Leaf talk about US involvement in the war in Yemen and coordination with the UAE, effective US messaging in the Gulf, countering Iranian influence in Iraq, and maintaining the US competitive advantage in the region.

General Votel and Ambassador Leaf discuss the diplomatic and military tools used by the US to counter Iranian activities, the Gulf Cooperative Council, and the campaign in Syria.

Joseph Votel, excomandante del Comando Central de los Estados Unidos, habló en Mañanas BLU sobre la carta abierta en que se le pidió al presidente Trump no politizar a las Fuerzas Armadas de su país en medio de la situación de tensión social y racial. La misiva, firmada por Votel junto a varios de los hombres más fuertes que han pasado por las Fuerzas Militares de EE.UU., advirtió que la politización en las filas debilita el vínculo entre el Ejército y la sociedad norteamericana. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode Abby and Ergodyne CEO Tom Votel discuss the thought process behind cutting edge PPE. Tom also reminds us that the Jetsons weren't all that far off from the future we're currently living.

Executive Director Chris Costa is joined by former Commander of U.S. Central Command General Joseph Votel to discuss his insights into current events in the Middle East and Afghanistan, and the fight against ISIS.

MEI Distinguished Senior Fellow Joseph Votel, a retired four-star general in the Army and former commander of U.S. Central Command, joins host Alistair Taylor to discuss the challenges facing American forces in the Middle East today, from COVID-19 and ISIS to the turbulent situations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

View Summary   The killing of Gen. Qassem Suleimani in January 2020 sent conflicting signals about the depth of U.S. engagement in the Gulf. The United States seems intent to diminish its presence while keeping an active hand in regional affairs. Meanwhile, Russia and China are exploring ways to reshape their own presence in the region. Please join the CSIS Middle East Program for a conference to examine the Gulf region in the wake of General Qassem Suleimani's death. Two expert panels will explore security threats and new opportunities for diplomacy in the region. General Joseph L. Votel will then deliver a keynote address on Great Power competition in the Gulf, followed by a Q&A moderated by Jon B. Alterman, senior vice president, Zbigniew Brzezinski chair in global security and geostrategy, and director of the Middle East Program. The Honorable John McLaughlin, Distinguished Practitioner in Residence, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and former Acting Director of Central Intelligence The Honorable Christine Wormuth, Director, International Security and Defense Policy Center, RAND Corporation, and former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Ambassador Anne Patterson, Former Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, U.S. Department of State    Ambassador Douglas Silliman,President, The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, and former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq  Dr. Ali Vaez,Iran Project Director, International Crisis Group  General Joseph L. Votel, President and CEO, Business Executives for National Security; Distinguished Senior Fellow on National Security, Middle East Institute; and former Commander of U.S. Central Command This event is made possible by generous support from the United Arab Emirates Embassy.

View Summary   The killing of Gen. Qassem Suleimani in January 2020 sent conflicting signals about the depth of U.S. engagement in the Gulf. The United States seems intent to diminish its presence while keeping an active hand in regional affairs. Meanwhile, Russia and China are exploring ways to reshape their own presence in the region. Please join the CSIS Middle East Program for a conference to examine the Gulf region in the wake of General Qassem Suleimani's death. Two expert panels will explore security threats and new opportunities for diplomacy in the region. General Joseph L. Votel will then deliver a keynote address on Great Power competition in the Gulf, followed by a Q&A moderated by Jon B. Alterman, senior vice president, Zbigniew Brzezinski chair in global security and geostrategy, and director of the Middle East Program. The Honorable John McLaughlin, Distinguished Practitioner in Residence, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and former Acting Director of Central Intelligence The Honorable Christine Wormuth, Director, International Security and Defense Policy Center, RAND Corporation, and former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Ambassador Anne Patterson, Former Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, U.S. Department of State    Ambassador Douglas Silliman,President, The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, and former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq  Dr. Ali Vaez,Iran Project Director, International Crisis Group  General Joseph L. Votel, President and CEO, Business Executives for National Security; Distinguished Senior Fellow on National Security, Middle East Institute; and former Commander of U.S. Central Command This event is made possible by generous support from the United Arab Emirates Embassy.

Interview with Gen. (ret.) Joseph L. Votel by INSS

Our first podcast is an interview with General (Ret.) Joseph Votel. General Votel is recently retired from the United States Army after a 39 year career. The last position he held was as the Commander of US Central Command from March 2016 to March 2019. To listen to our interview with General (Ret.) Votel, you can do so on your desktop here, or by typing “Battlefield Next” into the search field of your favorite podcast app. MAJ JJ Wellemeyer sat down with General Votel following his remarks at the “Ethical Challenges in the Development of New Weaponry” symposium hosted by the Center for the Rule of Law (CERL) at the University of Pennsylvania in September 2019. During his keynote address, General Votel discussed the ethical and moral implications of the evolving nature of warfare, and through the lens of his own personal experiences on the battlefield, he discussed how technological innovations have changed how we fight and how our adversaries do so as well. During the interview MAJ Wellemeyer asked him questions about his keynote address, professional development, leadership, and the qualities that make an effective judge advocate. Below is a timeline of some of the subject-areas discussed during the episode: 00:00 Episode introduction 01:30 Beginning of interview with General (Ret.) Votel 01:57 Integration of judge advocates in planning/operations process 02:44 Gaining a commander's trust 04:33 Ramifications of a failure in standards 07:07 Professional development 09:58 Advice for JA Graduate Course and JAOBC students 13:46 General (Ret.) Votel's book recommendation 15:03 Closing remarks If you’re interested in learning more about some of the topics covered during this episode, we recommend the following additional reading and resources: • "Retiring Gen. Joseph Votel recalls challenges of CentCom, the Middle East" by Howard Altman, Tampa Bay Times • General (Ret.) Stanley McChrystal's leadership philosophy: "Listen, learn...then lead" • ADP 6-22, Army Leadership and the Profession • "Once An Eagle" by Anton Myrer • TJAG/DJAG Lifelong Learning Reading List For more information related to FCD you can follow us on Twitter @jagfcd or by visiting our webpage. If you have recommendations or suggestions about future topics or guests, please send us an email, or you can leave us a comment by signing in below. Finally, if you like what you hear, please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe to “Battlefield Next” on your favorite podcast app. While this is a podcast created by US Army Judge Advocates from Future Concepts Directorate, our goal is to reach other judge advocates and lawyers across the DoD, law students, and members of academia. Your reviews help make this possible. For more information about the US Army JAG Corps, you can go here. If you’re interested in joining the Army JAG Corps, you can get more information by contacting the Judge Advocate Recruiting Office (JARO) or by visiting their webpage. *Music by Joseph McDade **The views expressed on the podcast are the views of the participants and do not necessarily represent those of The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School, the Army, the Department of Defense, or any other agency of the US Government.

This week on the program: • During a flight over Turkmenistan this week, America’s top commander in the Middle East spoke by phone with Defense One Executive Editor Kevin Baron. Kevin explains (at the 2:07 mark) what Gen. Joseph Votel told him about America’s military involvement in Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and more. • Then (30:32) we’ll turn to exosuits and pack robots of the future — many are already available, and they’re only getting better. We’ll hear from Paul Scharre and Lauren Fish about those and other robotic gadgets you just might find on soldiers 20 and 30 years from now. • And we’ll end (49:48) with a conversation on the quieter wars — and sometimes not so quiet ones — going on every day in the chatty spaces of our Facebook and Twitter feeds. P.W. Singer and Emerson Brooking — co-authors of a new book about the weaponization of social media called “LikeWar” — join us to talk about radicalization in America, determining fact from falsehood, and whether we humans are even capable of disagreeing more productively in the months to come. —Read the report coauthored in part by Paul and Lauren over at CNAS, here: https://www.cnas.org/publications/reports/emerging-technologies-1

WE FREAKINGS OF ORIENT ART! Throwing you in at the deep end of a frozen pond with Tamil tinsel and glittery Greek beat the Finders Keepers festive rescue team return to save you from present buying panic and the jingle of consumerist pockets with a seasonal stack of recycled vinyl and lesser-broadcast yuletide Yé-yé. Your faithful merry gentleman Shipton, Votel and Mitchell take you on another psuedo-psycotropic sleigh-ride as our invisible elves add their special secret ingredients of Weinachten wax and seasonal styrene to the mulled-vino for our third annual Christmas radio special. Joining the Finders Keepers Records Radio congregation in their jam packed snowbound shack are longtime friends and guests DJ Cherrystones and Modern Kosmologist Jane Weaver who, in an eggnog vs yule log throw-down, battle the prattle and the reindeer cattle to get a word in edgeways. The more the merrier? As the winter wall-bangers flow, it doesn't get much merrier than this.

Within the confines of this calendar month Saxonic inhabitants will experience a full moon, a Friday 13th and, as always, a glut of Hallowe'en parties officially making 2017 the host to the scariest October of all time. The add salt to the wound The Finders Keepers Records Radio Show trump this horrific hat-trick by bringing you a truly bloodcurdling display of vampyric vinyl, psychotic psychedelia, freakshow funk and a unique brand of zombified humour that would make the most stoic stand-up comedian literally die on stage. Yes it's that bad! Andy "The Axe Minister" Votel and Doug "The Diabolical" Shipton are left under the parental supervision of Pete "The Mummy" Mitchell while they attempt a radiophonic seance to resurrect the Morte Vivante of European horror pop and obscure curios from the belly of the B-Music beast. Putting a combined 75 years of well-polished professionalism to one side these three absolute losers present what they consider to be their worst ever show and even a visit from Lancaster's (genuinely proficient) poetic-power-drinkers The Lovely Eggs isn't going to sooth the gaping graze that this show will leave on your tolerance for years to come. With all the usual tenuous magazine features that allow us to stitch this Frankenstein-a-like bastard together this show is a nightmare. So, tune in and let Finders Keepers summon up the same jokes we did last year and feel the pain as your favourite reissue album subliminally brainwashes you all with attempts to eat your living bank balance from the inside out! Dead air? Viva la muerte!

General Joseph L. Votel, with introduction by H.E. Yousef Al Otaiba, at NCUSAR's 2017 Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference. Visit www.ncusar.org for more information.

Summer is a coming in, loudly sing cuckoo! Yes, indeed! Faithful and patient patrons of the Keepers cottage, summer is well and truly upon us and what better way to celebrate the sunstroke season than to crank up your metaphysical motor vehicles and hit the open road in search of dusty needle nirvana. Join your faithful tour buddies Votel, Mitchell and Shipton, abetted by hard rock hitchhiker Stan Chow, on one of their regular cross continental record raid road trips combining the kind of vehicular vinyl cuts used in Votel's very own Cock Diesel biker psych nights and adding global doses of two-stroke funk, Gallic gas guzzlers, freewheeling folk and psycho-manic soundtracks (amongst many more mutant micro-genes). Ideal for feature-length road trips, channel crossings, festival freeloading or family fleets of fancy, this show was bought to you by the letter's D, R, I, V, and E and the colours green for GO because there is no time for pit stops or bog breaks when Finders Keepers (fuzz) pedals hit the metal. So throw away your A to Zs as well as your MP3s and your seedy CDs because this voyage is virtually vinylcentric to the core (except for that one sticky cassette) and when you cover as much ground as the FK Radio shows and their infectious brand of B-Music you'll find that A roads home are simply no longer an option. Check the breaks! It's a Gasssss!

Finally climbing out of a winter time hibernation your faithful Finders Keepers Radio regulars embrace the joys of spring with open ears, wide mouths and clear minds in their ultimate radiophonic relaxation programme complete with musical massage oils, organic gramophones and natural vinyl vitamins in this Folkish Easter time special! Emerging from the communal egg like a three-headed garage sale guru Votel, Mitchell and Shipton celebrate record rebirth and general worldly wax eggsploration; combining acid folk classics, new age obscurities and folk funk crowd teasers with a healthy dose of spiritual well-being and quasi-optimist yoga yak. Inviting guests like spectral songbird Magpahi alongside reluctant future folk artists Felt Mistress into the Keepers Cottage this expanded psychedelic egg hunt attempts to summon the bargain buds of May via audio incantation while whale music, aquarium sound effects and Moomintroll melodies punctuate this very crooked craft fair! Add Hen To Eggs and Keep It Rollin'

"Vicki Fitch Live: Evict The Bully in Your Head" Podcast Episode 9 - with guest Chelsea Votel aka YoPickles  #YoPickles shared her life in #SouthKorea and her shows and shares #InkedKorea #PassTheTat & #YoPicklesInked and her new show #FaceYourTalent An amazing woman who has committed her time and talents to creating a #Community on #LiveStreaming She is an advocate to #EvictTheBully & #RockThatDream Check her out at www.YoPickles.com  #VickiFitchLive #EvictTheBully Series is based on Vicki Fitch's new book coming out EvictThe Bully In Your Head reminding us that we are a product of our own environment and that we all have bully's in our head. Tonight's #FacebookLive broadcast includes details on YoPickles rise in #SocialMedia on #LiveStreaming on apps that started from #Hangw where the #YoArmy started as a positive place for people to grow a safe following. Chelsea Votelis a #Silver Tier Member of #Periscope having 35K followers including her famoust #HeartMob where thousands of scopers go share they #SocialCurrency on #Periscope #HeartBombs with positive comments. She loves #SnapChat and the #Monetized #Apps of #Busker where she hosts #PicklesPlayground & #Live.me where she currently has over 45K followers and has reinspired the #YoArmy as the #AntiBullying #Community to watch over people on the app and to help them grow into protected and safe Live Streamers This episode was sponsored in part by Arkon Mounts and you can get 20% Off any order at www.arkon.com using the code FitchSlap Vicki is a #DirectSales Expert, #Author, #Speaker, International Business #Consultant & top #livestreamer on #Periscope and #FacebookLive. (2 x day) For more info, visit www.VickiFitch.com & she offers a #Free 20 Min #Consultations www.vickifitch.com/20

Brocks Warriors On Edge Of Teimar (and other Swiss cheese orbs) That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind, and one colossal wait between transmissions for all regular listeners of The Finders Keepers Radio Show! Having taken a brief hiatus during the April showers while European record fairs collide with Record Store Day chaos your faithful cosmonautical cowboys Votel, Mitchell and Shipton return to your discerning diaphragms with an outerstellar space rock special of epic interplanetary proportions. This bumper edition of our regular proxi-pop pilgrimage is recorded live on lunar location beamed to you directly from the Keepers Cockpit combining unpolished nuggets of black plastic debris in a show that traces, misplaces and erases the history of the flexi-genre known as space rock (while reducing it to various alien strains of Gallic Galaxian psych, Morricone moonshakers, Swiss spatial awareness and Mancunian martian invasions amongst other tenuous intergalactic alliterations). Putting our Tandy teleportation tank to the test comes a wide cast of very special guests including return visitors Jane "Amber Light" Weaver and Matt "Toast Of London" Berry sharing their loves for specific synth fuelled 70's sci-fi. Meanwhile, elsewhere of our vinyl vessel, astro-probes AV, PM and DS welcome two undisputed heavyweight pioneers of genre defining space sonic schallplatten on board in the form of Swiss computer jazzer Bruno Spoerri and Hawkwind principal pilot HRH Dave Brock. Spanning over 50 earth years of recorded spazio guff, combining jazz, folk, punk, musique CON-crete and unidentified OSTs, Finders Keepers lunar cafeteria caters for fans of Bananamoon and Barbarella alike proving that patience is a conquering virtue and absence makes the heart grow Fonda. www.finderskeepersrecords.com

After a couple of months sat nervously in the waiting room Professor Pete Mitchell finally invites The Finders Keepers grande fromage double pack of Votel and Shipton into his makeshift hypnotherapy capsule and extrudes further home truths, hot gossip and cold facts about the history of the "accidental world music label" utilising out of date truth serum and squeal techniques mastered over a 72 year career in radiophonic snoopery. Find out the real stories behind the snazzy headlines, liner notes and polarised magazine reviews that FK keenly amassed between July 2010 and October 2011 in what became the labels most productive and pivotal period to date. Starting with French comic book concept albums and Serge-alike spacemen and taking a cosmic cruise via French vampires, Czech witches, Pakistani train drivers, Thai cowboys and werewolves on wheels, Pete, Andy and Doug also reflect on the year that saw the label launch its slow-moving literary imprint and temporarily lose all its stock in a warehouse fire only to rise from the flames thanks to a huge community of global supporters that probably includes YOU! Having made, done, and mended, Finders Keepers started a new chapter by its 50th release and survived to tell the tale to patrons and participants of the Keepers Cottage. Tapeworm? Yes. www.finderskeepersrecords.com

So the temperature has dropped and the maledictus month is upon us… The goblins at Finders Keepers Records couldn't possibly let October pass without our unfaithful hosts Andy "The Vampire" Votel, Pete "The Mutilator" Mitchell and Doug "The Grave Digger" Shipton bringing you our first Finders Kreepers Hallowe'en Radio Spezial. Cramming the best part of two blood curdling hours with a small selection of their combined, colossal collection of spook music, the inhabitants of the Kreepers Cottage don their best costumes and invite a crooked cast of trick or treat cheats into the warmth to share their scary wares and impose their schizophrenic opinions, horrific half embalmed facts and rotten mispronunciations with a mutating readership of zombified victims. Featuring apparitions of guests such as the terrible tape worm, Jane "The Cleaver' Weaver and, for this very special one-off occasion, The Prince Of Darkness himself, Mr. Chris Lee! Defying mortality, betraying reality and pushing the blood-stained boundaries of mindless banality. Catch the Finders Kreepers freak show now or risk feeling pop culturally decapitated for the next 364 painful days. Audiophiles enter at your own risk.

With general election fever looming over our tiny island this month, the members of the B-Music assembly retreat to the Keepers Cottage to grunt, snarl, manipulate the truth, talk over the top of each other and make creative promises they cannot keep. Welcome to Arty Political Broadcasts. This month The Finders Keepers Radio Show looks at art school pop in all its guises - from DIY punk to flamboyant rock excursions; from punk poetry to opinionated pop via agit new wave, visiting theatre, sleeve art and a whole host of global artistic pop funk gestures along the way. Gathered for this one-off special message stalwarts Votel, Shipton, Mitchell do there utmost best to cram too many opinions into one space and overwhelm the listener in true parliamentary style joined throughout the show by original B-Music honcho, writer and closet situationist obsessive John McCready. Sporadic visits from extra special guests Graham Gouldman from 10cc, poetic spokesman John Cooper Clarke and Jane "Silver Globe" Weaver make this edition of our monthly mutant music magazine all the more enthralling while Graham Massey takes our reluctant mascot Tapeworm from the tip to the Toolshed and we keep the punkish paraphernalia rotating in vinyl and cassette form way beyond curfew. Consider this parliament hung(over)!

With the wake of a new season the third episode of Finders Keepers monthly radio magazine returns to your devices ushering musical lost property, foreign fuzz and multiple micro-genres via our regular cosmic conduits at the radio chronic workshop known only as the Keepers Cottage. This month’s episode is punctuated by the concept “Jazz Is Not A Four Letter Word” - a ten-year-old title that was original earmarked for part of a series of releases on Doug and Andy's hibernating Delay 68 label. Alongside other quadratic genres folk, prog and glam, jazz was once a misunderstood section known to polarise tastes like marmite and mustard sushi burgers but as many hapless vinyl junkies will testify the j word forms the backbone to some of the best record collections in the world and it obviously doesn't take a bunch of Saxonic nerds from Blighty (such as our guest Graham Massey from Biting Tongues/808 State) to fight its corner... but let's do it anyway. Expect some of the finest skronk platters from all corners of the globe in this months Jazz themed episode including free/spiritual/cosmic/improv/electronic and other permutations of the joyful noise with various random bursts of unrelated vinyl bliss in the mix courtesy of Votel, Shipton. Mitchell, Ozploitation purveyor James Pianta and not forgetting our favourite ferric oligochaeta Mr. Tapeworm. The jazz amnesty is in session; Iguarglaphones must be left at the door.

B music, deep and dangerous tracks from the vault... COLLEGE OF REDWOODS STAGE BAND, FREE ORBIT, ERIC BURDON, TOLDOS Y SU GROUPO, BRIAN AUGER, BOBBY MOORE, BABY WASHINGTON, UNIDADES, TSU JAZZ ENSEMBLE, BETH GIBBONS, ENNIO MORRICONE, PARVA