The U.S. Naval War College is pleased to host the eighteenth lecture in this academic year’s “Issues in National Security” lecture series. Join Professor Hank Brightman speaking about “Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief”. From Professor Brightman: For more than 100 years, the United States has sought to help those in need around the globe. From […]
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This event took place on May 3, 2022. Professor Brightman discusses the magnitude and complexity of recent disasters and that they have dramatically altered the generally accepted roles for militaries engaged in international humanitarian response. Despite these shifts, the nature and extent of military involvement in humanitarian assistance is context dependent. For example, humanitarian civil-military […]