You are listening to the War on the Rocks podcast on Strategy, Defense and Foreign Affairs.

My name is Ryan Evans, I'm the Editor-in-Chief of War on the Rocks.

Recently, two enterprising young scholars spearheaded a major conference that ended up being sponsored and hosted by

CSIS and the Kissinger Center at Sice.

The topic was The Future of Force, and it will hopefully be the first in a series under a program

called The Future of Strategy Form that aims to feature women doing important work in national and international security.

At the end of this fascinating day long event, I sat down, along with Usha Suhai, and the people responsible for making this event happen.

We had a great conversation about how this conference came to be, the challenges of gender diversity,

and of course the future of force.

Thanks, Alex Pick, I'm Associate Director. the future of force.

Thanks, Alex Pick, I'm an associate director at the Kissinger Center at Sice. I'm Alice Friend.

I'm a senior fellow at the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and

International Studies.

I'm Ushahai. I'm the Managing Editor at War on the Rocks.

I'm Kathleen Hicks. I direct the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic

and International Studies.

I'm Sarah Planam. the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

I'm Sarah Plano, I'm a PhD student at MIT

Political Science Department, and I work on issues

related to armed group organizational behavior

and state armed group relationships.

I'm Rachel Ticot, also a PhD student at MIT focusing on international security issues.

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