Donald Trump in War and Peace: The 47th President in Historical Perspective – Michael O’Hanlon
Global Issues Series I
Tuesdays in Venice
In style and demeanor, Donald Trump is a distinctive type of American president. It is also rather clear that, since World War II, he is alone in his general disdain for alliances and has doubts about the international order that the United States led the way in establishing. Michael O’Hanlon asks whether he is unique when placed in America’s 250-year history.
- Jan 05 2027
- 2:30 pm
- Global Issues Series I Venice
- 326 Nokomis Ave S, Venice, FL 34285
Speaker
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O'Hanlon, MichaelInaugural holder of the Philip H. Knight Chair in Defense and Strategy and Director of Research in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings InstitutionMichael O’Hanlon is the inaugural holder of the Philip H. Knight Chair in Defense and Strategy and Director of Research in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution, where he specializes in U.S. defense strategy and budgets, the use of military force, and American national security policy.
He is a senior fellow and directs the Strobe Talbott Center on Security, Strategy, and Technology. He also co-directs the Africa Security Initiative. He is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and Columbia University and was a member of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board from 2021 to 2025.
He was also a member of the external advisory board at the Central Intelligence Agency from 2011 to 2012. His newest book, timed to coincide with the nation’s 250th birthday, is To Dare Mighty Things: U.S. Defense Strategy Since the Revolution.
In 2023, O’Hanlon published Military History for the Modern Strategist: America’s Major Wars since 1861. The paperback version of the book, with a preface covering the American Revolution as well as the declared wars of the 19th century, came out in 2024.
