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Peter A. Wilson came to us from Florida and majored in Politics, writing a thesis about nuclear proliferation. After graduation, he went to the University of Chicago for a Master's in Political Science that focused on national security policy and international relations. Over the course of a fifty-year career, he worked for the Central Intelligence Agency and the Department of State and a variety of Federally Funded Research and Development Centers such as the RAND Corporation, and National Research Laboratories such as the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He has published many public articles and editorials on a wide range of topics dealing with national security policy and military technological innovation over the course of several decades. In 1990 he co-authored the book, "Superpowers in Economic Decline", that dealt with the possible end of the Cold War. During his career he taught courses on national security policy at Georgetown University and The Eisenhower School at the National Defense University. Currently, he is retired but still teaches courses via Zoom on national security issues including the history of military technological innovation for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at American University. He continues to co-author articles on national security issues from time to time.

Here is a brief note from Peter about his Tiger Talk: “Donald J. Trump got reelected in part on the promise that he would end the Russo-Ukrainian War quickly and that he would avoid wars of choice in the Greater Middle East. Further he promised that he would revolutionize our national security policy to focus on the Western Hemisphere and a foreign policy of interests and not traditional alliances. Most of these initiatives by his mid-term have not turned out as planned." Peter will explore how the Trump administration finds itself facing ever more acute national security challenges with likely profound historic consequences.

The Tiger Talk will be on Wednesday, October 7, at 4:00 p.m. Eastern. As usual we will start right on time, so we suggest you sign in 15 minutes early and engage in some classmate conversation. The link for the Tiger Talk is here. Please join us as we kick off a new year in our Tiger Talk series.