Kevin Ryan

Senior Fellow, Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

Guest

Retired Army brigadier general, his last assignment was as Deputy Director for Army Strategy, Plans and Policy at the Pentagon; Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government

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