At The Boundary

Text the ATB Team! We'd love to hear from you! This week’s "At The Boundary" features Dr. Frank Sobchak as he discusses his extensive research on Israel since the October 7th attacks by Hamas. Dr. Sobchak shares firsthand accounts from his time in the region and insights gained from conversations with its citizens. The conversation also covers Israel's portrayal in American medi...

Text the ATB Team! We'd love to hear from you! Tune in to "At the Boundary" for an in-depth discussion with special guest, Dr. Jongseok Woo, an expert on political science at the University of South Florida. Dr. Woo and GNSI’s Dr. Tad Schnaufer examine the recent NATO-style provision formed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. Gain valuable persp...

Text the ATB Team! We'd love to hear from you! On GNSI’s “At the Boundary” this week, former Commander of United States Central Command, General (Ret) Frank McKenzie and host Tad Schnaufer, PhD, give rare insight into the life of a four-star general. They discuss daily routines, pivotal decisions, and leadership in the U.S. military. Explore the realities and responsibilities of high-level str...

Text the ATB Team! We'd love to hear from you! 🎙️ Join us on "At the Boundary" as Dr. Caitlin Lee breaks down the "Countering CCP Drones Act" currently being considered in Congress. This legislation would ban drones from the Chinese-owned technology company, DJI, from operating in the U.S., which would have a massive impact on the personal and professional domestic drone ma...

Text the ATB Team! We'd love to hear from you! On “At The Boundary,” Air Force Command Chief Master Sergeant (Ret) Greg Smith shares unique insights from his 33-year career in Special Operations, diving into the details of countering modern weapons of mass destruction. Smith was the 10th Command Senior Enlisted Leader in the history of USSOCOM and he's the founder and CEO of TIGRE Global...

Text the ATB Team! We'd love to hear from you! At The Boundary host Jim Cardoso sits down with one of the newest members of our GNSI team, Resident Senior Fellow Dr. Rob Burrell. They talk about Burrell’s time as a combat-experienced Marine, his accomplishments within the national security field, and his experiences while writing his book, “The Ghosts of Iwo Jima.” The conversation chronicles...

Text the ATB Team! We'd love to hear from you! On this episode of “At the Boundary,” GNSI’s Academic Director, David Oakley, PhD, leads a panel from the GNSI Policy Dialogues conference titled: “Endangered Freedoms: Transnational Repression in North America,” which featured Campaign Director at Safeguard Defenders, Laura Harth and Associate Professor of Political Science at Eckerd College, All...

Text the ATB Team! We'd love to hear from you! This week on GNSI’s At the Boundary Podcast, GNSI’s very own Arman Mahmoudian, PhD, discusses the latest book from the Majid Khaddouri Professor of International Affairs and Middle East Studies at Johns Hopkins University SAIS, Vali Nasr, PhD. The book, "How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare," gives Nasr, PhD’s, and...

Text the ATB Team! We'd love to hear from you! On At the Boundary this week, guest host Glenn Beckmann sits down with two of the most recognized experts on Middle Eastern affairs. Dr. Arman Mahmoudian, an adjunct professor at the Judy Genshaft Honors College at USF and an award-winning writer on foreign policy and Dr. Mohsen Mulani, an internationally recognized scholar, as well as the founder...

Text the ATB Team! We'd love to hear from you! In this episode of At the Boundary, GNSI’s Academic Director Dave Oakley PhD., discusses how the implementation of A.I. is changing the world of spycraft with David Gioe, PhD., an Associate Professor of History at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and veteran in the field of information gathering.  Their conversation delves into personal exp...

Text the ATB Team! We'd love to hear from you! On At the Boundary this week, Barbara Slavin, a nationally recognized, author, diplomatic reporter, and foreign correspondent with special expertise in the Middle East, and Sina Azodi, PhD, a Visiting Scholar and Professional Lecturer of International Affairs at the George Washington University’s Elliot School of International Affairs talk about S...

Text the ATB Team! We'd love to hear from you! In this episode of At the Boundary, we go back to our GNSI Tampa Summit in March and listen in on a conversation between Dr. Prasant Mohapatra, the Provost of the University of South Florida and Ylli Bajraktari, President and CEO of the Special Competitive Studies Project, an initiative spearheaded by Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google. Betwee...

Text the ATB Team! We'd love to hear from you! Amy Mitchell, a former senior advisor to the Office of Global Women’s Issues for the U.S. State Department, joins At the Boundary for an in-depth discussion on how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), uses secret police stations all over the world to surveil, coerce, and assault targeted individuals from speaking out against its communist doctrine....

Text the ATB Team! We'd love to hear from you! As part of our Policy Dialogues series of events, GNSI gathered some of the world's foremost experts on Iran for a recent conference: The Iran Enigma: Navigating Strategy and Security.  Two of those leading scholars, Drs. Vali Nasr and Mohsen Milani, participated in a thought-provoking Fireside Chat as one of the highlights of the conference....

Text the ATB Team! We'd love to hear from you! Dr. Craig Martell, former technology executive at Lyft and Dropbox, and the first Chief Development and Artificial Intelligence Officer for the Department of Defense, is one of the world's leading experts on artificial intelligence, machine learning and large language models. His keynote address at GNSI Tampa Summit 3 was such a roaring succe...

Text the ATB Team! We'd love to hear from you! Dr. Craig Martell, former technology executive at Lyft and Dropbox, and the first Chief Development and Artificial Intelligence Officer for the Department of Defense, is one of the world's leading experts on artificial intelligence, machine learning and large language models. His keynote address at GNSI Tampa Summit 3 was such a roaring succe...

Text the ATB Team! We'd love to hear from you! Artificial Intelligence is a hot-button issue - perhaps the hot-button issue - around the world today. AI was the focus of our recently completed GNSI Tampa Summit 3: Artificial Intelligence in the Era of Strategic Competition. A highly anticipated segment of the conference was the Fireside Chat on Day 1, featuring the Honorable Kirstjen Nielsen a...

Text the ATB Team! We'd love to hear from you! Artificial Intelligence is a hot-button issue - perhaps the hot-button issue - around the world today. AI was the focus of our recently completed GNSI Tampa Summit 3: Artificial Intelligence in the Era of Strategic Competition. A highly anticipated segment of the conference was the Fireside Chat on Day 1, featuring the Honorable Kirstjen Nielsen a...

Text the ATB Team! We'd love to hear from you! In this episode of At the Boundary,   GNSI Tampa Summit 3 keynote speaker, General Bryan Fenton, Commander of U.S. Special Forces Operations Command (USSOCOM),  shares topics of military interest in artificial intelligence.  AI has transformed the way his team at Special Operations Command processes and solves the difficult challenges this technol...

Text the ATB Team! We'd love to hear from you! In this episode of At the Boundary , we listen to a diverse conversation between three leading experts in the study of artificial intelligence. USF assistant professor and the founder of the Advancing Machine and Human Reasoning Lab, Dr. John Licato, USF Associate Dean of Research in the Department of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering...

Text the ATB Team! We'd love to hear from you! In this episode of At the Boundary, we’ve gathered the CEO of Feeding Tampa Bay, Thomas Mantz and Dr. David Himmelgreen, a USF anthropology professor and Director of the USF Center for the Advancement of Food Security and Healthy Communities to speak about food insecurity and hunger issues in the Tampa Bay region. They speak on the unique relation...

Text the ATB Team! We'd love to hear from you! In this episode of At the Boundary , we sit in on a conversation with one of the U.S. Army's foremost experts on drone warfare, AI trust and emerging technologies,  Lieutenant Colonel (Dr) Paul Lushenko, the Director of Operations at the US Army War College. The highly accredited author and recently named assistant professor at the Army War C...

Text the ATB Team! We'd love to hear from you! In Episode 14 of “At the Boundary,” we recognize the two-year anniversary of Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine in February of 2022. Actually, as we learn in this episode, a strong case can be made that this is the 10th anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. We also discuss a recent Guest Essay written by GNSI Executive Director, Genera...

Text the ATB Team! We'd love to hear from you! At the first GNSI Tampa Summit , Tom Waters, the Assistant Director of Startups and Business Development at the USF Technology Transfer Office , presented a compelling case as to why one of the world's most popular social media apps, TikTok, has leaped to #1 on the U.S. Most Wanted List and has drawn the ire of the U.S. government. TikTok, an...

Text the ATB Team! We'd love to hear from you! At the first GNSI Tampa Summit , Tom Waters, the Assistant Director of Startups and Business Development at the USF Technology Transfer Office , presented a compelling case as to why one of the world's most popular social media apps, TikTok, has leaped to #1 on the U.S. Most Wanted List and has drawn the ire of the U.S. government. TikTok, an...