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February 24th, 2024, marks two years since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Please join the CSIS International Security Program for a virtual discussion on the state of the war today, Ukrainian and Russian strategy moving forward
The future of U.S. and other Western aid to Ukraine.
Seth G. Jones, Senior Vice President and Director of the International Security Program at CSIS, will be joined by Eliot A. Cohen, Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at CSIS; Emily Harding, Director of the Intelligence, National Security, and Technology Program and Deputy Director of the International Security Program at CSIS; a Honorable Michael Vickers, former Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and CIA operations officer.
This event is made possible by general support to CSIS. 
The future of U.S. and other Western aid to Ukraine.
Seth G. Jones, Senior Vice President and Director of the International Security Program at CSIS, will be joined by Eliot A. Cohen, Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at CSIS; Emily Harding, Director of the Intelligence, National Security, and Technology Program and Deputy Director of the International Security Program at CSIS; a Honorable Michael Vickers, former Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and CIA operations officer.
HERE'S A NOTE ABOUT ONE OF THE PANEL PARTICIPANTS:MICHAEL VICKERS
". . .His military strategy reduces to a single imperative: the pursuit of “escalation dominance.”
When embarking upon war, “go in on the offense and with what it takes to win.”
Don’t pussyfoot.
Don’t worry about costs.
A well-endowed nation like the United States always has another log to throw on the fire. . ."
His keys to victory were a plentiful supply of advanced arms — especially U.S.-manufactured Stinger antiaircraft missiles — plus “the indomitable fighting spirit, toughness and resilience of the Afghan people” along with the “wildly unrealistic” Soviet expectations of creating in Kabul a “foreign-dominated, centrally directed, secular, cohesive” state.
Vickers’s C.I.A. training included disguise work and not-quite-simulated torture survival tests. But he was not into spycraft. “Charlie Wilson’s War,” the Aaron Sorkin-scripted 2007 film about covert ops in Afghanistan, presents Vickers as a wiry, hyperconfident wunderkind with a deep knowledge of military weaponry
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