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General E. John Teichert - US Air Force, International Affairs
John is a recently-retired U.S. Air Force general, an inspirational leader, a keen strategist, a passionate innovator, and a national security expert. He has vast whole-of-government leadership experience that includes military, diplomatic, intelligence, and industrial instruments of power – from cutting-edge technology to our nation’s most sensitive international relationships.
John retired as the Assistant Deputy Undersecretary of the Air Force, International Affairs, responsible for worldwide international engagement on behalf of the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force while leading the services’ entire $240 billion security cooperation portfolio. Prior to that, John was the Senior Defense Official and Defense Attaché to Iraq, leading on the front lines of whole-of-government national security strategy and policy in the most challenging of environments. He has been an F-15E combat pilot, an F-22 test pilot, the commander of Joint Base Andrews (also known as America’s Airfield), and the commander of Edwards Air Force Base (also known as the Center of the Aerospace Testing Universe).
John has written and spoken extensively on leadership, innovation, technology, national security, security cooperation, cross-cultural relationships, risk management, resilience, and international affairs. He holds engineering degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University, and is the founder and president of Capital Leadership LLC, passionately developing the leaders our nation needs.
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- Preventing a Chinese invasion of Taiwan will require a careful calibration of capability and will to manage the CCP’s perception about costs, benefits and risks.
- A carefully crafted consistency between strategic words and actions in international engagement and security cooperation would further the aims of integrated deterrence for the United States and its allies and partners alike.
- Bringing strategic talk and the walk into alignment would create a powerful signal to strategic competitors that the United States is pursuing actual integrated deterrence that acts across domains, theaters, and spectrums of conflict alongside of allies and partners.
- By maintaining decision maneuver room through a strategy that obscures limits, an opponent is intentionally deprived of the knowledge of those limitations and is forced to prepare for all options. Thus, the coercive impact of such a posture is magnified.
- intentional vagueness and ambiguity at the strategic and operational levels that keep all options on the table can play a positive role in the outcome of American strategy.
- A large and trusted network of allies and partners is indeed a unique American advantage, and today’s successes in the skies over NATO’s eastern flank should be the catalyst to fully translate relationships and security cooperation processes into the hard power needed by ally and partner nations to meet common objectives.
- Soft power has strengthened alliances and attracted new partners, translating strong and trusted relationships into effective forms of hard power through security cooperation.For a list of publications (if needed), https://JohnTeichert.com provides the best list.
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The US and China: Deterrence in the Danger Zone
Success depends on decreasing the perceived likelihood that a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would succeed, minimizing the perceived benefits, and increasing the expected costs.
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