Dr. Glen Crowther – Florida International University Cybersecurity Center
Both the Department of Defense (DoD) and NATO have declared that cyber is a “domain”, co-equal with air, land, sea and, most recently, space. This gives rise to questions of what our cyber resources’ mission should be and where they should operate, especially given that 90% of the US’s cyber resources are in private hands.
The challenges of Cyber Strategy seem ever greater, ever more urgent, and ever more tightly integrated with the other tools of defense and foreign relations. The most recent example is in Ukraine, where there is the potential for a cyber attack and evidence that Russia was preparing a ‘false flag’ exercise as a possible pretext for intervention.
Our March speaker, Dr. Alexander Crowther is currently a Cyber Policy specialist in the Expert Consultant program at the Center for Technology and National Security Policy (CTNSP) at the National Defense University in Washington, DC. He is also an adjunct Senior Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation and an adjunct Research Professor of National Security Studies at the Strategic Studies Institute. In 2017, he published The Cyber Domain and in 2019 One Hundred Years of US Information Competition.
Dr. Crowther’s government service includes a decade each in the Cold War, the post-Cold War era and the post 9/11 era. He was a Counterterrorism Advisor for the US Ambassador to Iraq, a Political Advisor for the Multi-National Corps – Iraq Commander, and a Special Assistant for the Supreme Allied Commander, Europe.
He served overseas eight times: three times in Latin America, twice in Korea, twice in Iraq and once in Belgium. He has a variety of awards from the Departments of Defense and State as well as the Canadian government. His work at the strategic level includes tours at the Army Staff, the Joint Staff J5 (Strategic Plans & Policies), and as a Research Professor at Strategic Studies Institute.
Dr. Crowther has a BA in International Relations from Tufts University, an MS in International Relations from Troy State University, and a Ph.D. in International Development from Tulane University. He was also an International Security Studies Fellow at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy.