ARNSF: Russian Military Capabilities

This event is only open to members of the ARNSF. If you are not a member but are interested in joining, contact John Nelson at John.nelson@cgscf.org.

In this presentation of the Arter-Rowland National Security Forum, retired Col. Matt Dimmick will discuss Russian military capabilities. Over the past 15 years, as Russia’s relative economic and diplomatic power has waned, it has increasingly turned to asymmetric and conventional military campaigns to achieve its policy objectives. As a result, the world is witnessing an increasingly aggressive Russia seize regions within neighboring countries, dispatch expeditionary forces abroad, wage information warfare, threaten fiberoptic cable infrastructure, unleash cyber attacks, deploy anti-satellite weapons, build hypersonic missiles, and conduct assassinations. Dimmick will describe how current and evolving Russian military capabilities directly threaten U.S. national security interests, and the implications for potential great power conflict in the near term.

Col. Matt Dimmick, U.S. Army, Ret. served 29 years in uniform, retiring in 2021. He most recently served as Director for Russia and Eastern Europe on the National Security Council Staff during the Trump and Biden administrations. Previously, Matt was the Russia Director for the Secretary of Defense from 2016 to 2019. He also held the positions as Defense Attaché in Tbilisi, Georgia, Deputy Foreign Policy Advisor for the Chief of Staff of the Army, and Assistant Army Attaché in Moscow.

Matt is a graduate of the United States Military Academy, holds a Master of Arts in National Strategy from the Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy, and a Master of Arts in Russian and Eastern European Studies from the University of Kansas.

Questions about registration? – Contact Lora Morgan, lora@cgscf.org or call 913-651-0624.

For questions about the ARNSF contact Col. (Ret.) Robert Ulin, Simons Center Director, at rulin@cgscf.org or call 913-240-1495.

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The Arter-Rowland National Security Forum is an exclusive professional information sharing and networking event exclusively for members of the forum and select invitees of the CGSC Foundation’s Simons Center and the Kansas City Chapter of the Association of the United States Army (KCAUSA), the co-hosts of the Forum.