Dan Rice of the Mitchell Institute shares his insights on China and great-power competition with our hosts Captain Shaquille James and Lt Col Sze Miller.

Ambassador Dan Shields shares his insights on Brunei, Southeast Asia, and the Indo-Pacific writ large. Interviewers Dr. Jared McKinney and Lt Col Sze Miller moderate.

Ambassador Daniel Shields is a visiting policy practitioner at the Gerald R. Ford School's Weiser Diplomacy Center at the University of Michigan and serves as a member of the editorial advisory board of the Department of the Air Forces Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs, a publication of Air University Press. Ambassador Shields consults, teaches courses and conducts simulations relating to diplomacy and U.S.-Asia relations. From 2015-18, while on detail from the U.S. State Department as the Diplomatic Advisor to the Commandant at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, he helped educate future strategic leaders on how to integrate the diplomatic, informational, military and economic (DIME) instruments of power to achieve national security objectives. He served as the U.S. Ambassador to Brunei from 2011-14, handling sensitive South China Sea-related issues in connection with Brunei’s hosting in 2013 of the various Summits involving the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Ambassador (Ret.) Shields led two other U.S. diplomatic Missions in Southeast Asia as Chargé d’Affaires (at times when no Ambassador was in place.) In response to an urgent request from the State Department, he temporarily left the Army War College for six months in 2017 to serve as the Chargé at the U.S. Mission to ASEAN in Jakarta, traveling to Manila to support participation by the President and Cabinet Secretaries in the ASEAN-related Summits. His other Chargé duty was for 15 months, mainly in 2009, when he led Embassy Singapore in supporting then-President Obama’s participation in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings.

His early to mid-career assignments were mainly in Japan and China, including as Political Minister Counselor at Embassy Beijing from 2004-07. He speaks Japanese and Chinese. His first tour in the Foreign Service was as a Vice Consul at Embassy Manila from 1985-87, where he witnessed firsthand and reported on the People Power demonstrations and the fall of the Marcos regime.

Lt Col Sze Miller & 1Lt Shaquille H. James interview Dr. Bruce A. Elleman on Korea, Indo-Pacific maritime security, and other topics.

1st Lieutenant Shaquille H. James, USAF, and Lt Col Sze Miller, USAF, interview retired Army colonel David S. Maxwell, a world-renowned subject-matter expert regarding the Korean peninsula.

Lt Col Sze Miller, USAF, interviews Dr. Charles Thomas, faculty Air University, regarding China-Africa relations.

Brought to you by the Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs and the Consortium of Indo-Pacific Researchers, this round table discussion, "The Fall of Afghanistan," features Dr. monish tourangbam; Col Wayne Straw, USAF; COL Patrick Budjenska, US Army; Sher Jan Ahmadzai; and Anvesh Jain, with event coordinator, Achala Gunasekara-Rockwell, PhD. The original intent of this event was to highlight journal articles tackling the topic of #Afghanistan. Unfortunately, the events of the past few weeks have radically altered the focus, which will instead turn to what the future holds for Afghanistan in the wake of its collapse and the resurgence of the #Taliban. We have brought together a very diverse group of scholars, including international academicians, military officers with real-world experience in the theater, and a former official in the Karzai administration.

In this episode, Air University's Dr. Jared McKinney interviews Ken Moriyasu, the chief US editor for Nikkei Asia, one of the world’s most widely circulated financial newspapers. Mr. Moriyasu and Dr. McKinney discuss a wide array of topics, including emerging technologies, geoeconomics, and the future of reporting in the Indo-Pacific.

In this episode, Air University's Dr. Jared McKinney interviews Dr. David Ownby, professor of history at the University of Montreal and editor of the blog Reading the China Dream.