Future War and the Defence of Europe with Ben Hodges and Michael Neiberg

The Midtown Scholar Bookstore is honored to welcome Former Commander of the United States Army Europe Ben Hodges for a conversation and signing on his new book, Future War and the Defence of Europe. Hodges will be in conversation with Professor of History and Chair of War Studies at the Army War College, Michael Neiberg. This event is in partnership with the Foreign Policy Association of Central Pennsylvania.

Hodges and Neiberg will discuss how peace can be maintained in Europe, as well as the role of history, strategy, policy, and technology play in its future security.

Registration is free but required for entry to this event. To enter the signing line, books must be purchased from the Midtown Scholar Bookstore. Books will be for sale at the event.

About the Book:

Future War and the Defence of Europe offers a major new analysis of how peace and security can be maintained in Europe: a continent that has suffered two cataclysmic conflicts since 1914. Taking as its starting point the COVID-19 pandemic and way it will inevitably accelerate some key global dynamics already in play, the book goes on to weave history, strategy, policy, and technology into a compelling analytical narrative. It lays out in forensic detail the scale of the challenge Europeans and their allies face if Europe's peace is to be upheld in a transformative century.

The book upends foundational assumptions about how Europe's defence is organised, the role of a fast-changing transatlantic relationship, NATO, the EU, and their constituent nation-states. At the heart of the book is a radical vision of a technology-enabling future European defence, built around a new kind of Atlantic Alliance, an innovative strategic public-private partnership, and the future hyper-electronic European force, E-Force, it must spawn. Europeans should be under no illusion: unless they do far more for their own defence, and very differently, all that they now take for granted could be lost in the maze of hybrid war, cyber war, and hyper war they must face.

About the Authors:

Ben Hodges holds the Pershing Chair in Strategic Studies at the Center for European Policy Analysis. He was previously Commander of the United States Army Europe from 2014 to 2017.

Michael S. Neiberg is the award-winning author of Potsdam: The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe, Fighting the Great War, and Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I, among other books. He is Professor of History and the inaugural Chair of War Studies at the US Army War College.

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