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Alan W. Dowd is a Senior Fellow with the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes on the full range of topics relating to national defense, foreign policy and international security. Dowd’s commentaries and essays have appeared in Policy Review, Parameters, Military Officer, The American Legion Magazine, The Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, The Claremont Review of Books, World Politics Review, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Jerusalem Post, The Financial Times Deutschland, The Washington Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Examiner, The Detroit News, The Sacramento Bee, The Vancouver Sun, The National Post, The Landing Zone, Current, The World & I, The American Enterprise, Fraser Forum, American Outlook, The American and the online editions of Weekly Standard, National Review and American Interest. Beyond his work in opinion journalism, Dowd has served as an adjunct professor and university lecturer; congressional aide; and administrator, researcher and writer at leading think tanks, including the Hudson Institute, Sagamore Institute and Fraser Institute. An award-winning writer, Dowd has been interviewed by Fox News Channel, Cox News Service, The Washington Times, The National Post, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and numerous radio programs across North America. In addition, his work has been quoted by and/or reprinted in The Guardian, CBS News, BBC News and the Council on Foreign Relations. Dowd holds degrees from Butler University and Indiana University. Follow him at twitter.com/alanwdowd.

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Scott Tilley is a Senior Fellow at the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes the “Technical Power” column, focusing on the societal and national security implications of advanced technology in cybersecurity, space, and foreign relations.

He is an emeritus professor at the Florida Institute of Technology. Previously, he was with the University of California, Riverside, Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute, and IBM. His research and teaching were in the areas of computer science, software & systems engineering, educational technology, the design of communication, and business information systems.

He is president and founder of the Center for Technology & Society, president and co-founder of Big Data Florida, past president of INCOSE Space Coast, and a Space Coast Writers’ Guild Fellow.

He has authored over 150 academic papers and has published 28 books (technical and non-technical), most recently Systems Analysis & Design (Cengage, 2020), SPACE (Anthology Alliance, 2019), and Technical Justice (CTS Press, 2019). He wrote the “Technology Today” column for FLORIDA TODAY from 2010 to 2018.

He is a popular public speaker, having delivered numerous keynote presentations and “Tech Talks” for a general audience. Recent examples include the role of big data in the space program, a four-part series on machine learning, and a four-part series on fake news.

He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Victoria (1995).

Contact him at stilley@cts.today.

Ukrainian First Lady Pleads to US Lawmakers for Anti-Missile Systems

Thursday, July 21, 2022

Categories: ASCF News Missile Defense

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Source: https://www.voanews.com/a/ukrainian-first-lady-to-address-us-lawmakers/6666146.html

Olena Zelenska, the first lady of Ukraine, addresses members of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 20, 2022.

WASHINGTON —
Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska on Wednesday showed pictures of casualties of Russia’s war on her country to U.S. lawmakers, delivering an emotional appeal for a supply of more air defense systems to fight off Moscow’s missile attacks.

Zelenska showed the faces of Liza, a toddler killed in a missile attack earlier this month in Vinnytsia, 5-year-old Eva, left in the rubble of a destroyed building, and a Holocaust survivor killed in Kyiv.

“I want to address you not as first lady, but as a daughter and as a mother,” Zelenska said in Ukrainian, as a woman translated her speech to English. “No matter what positions and titles we reach in our lives, first of all, we always remain part of our family.”

She said first ladies are usually “exclusively engaged in peaceful affairs.”

“But how can I talk about [peaceful affairs] when an unprovoked invasive terrorist war is being waged against my country? Russia is destroying our people,” she said.

“I am asking for weapons—weapons that will not be used to wage a war on somebody else’s land, but to protect one’s home and the right to make up a life in that home,” Zelenska said. “I am asking for air-defense systems in order for rockets not to kill children in their strollers … and kill entire families.”

“I want every mother and father to go to sleep peacefully,” she said.

Zelenska was in her third day of a visit to Washington, after meeting Tuesday with U.S. first lady Jill Biden at the White House and Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday.

The two first ladies last saw each other during Biden’s unannounced visit to western Ukraine in May, when they visited a school and joined children who were making Mother’s Day gifts.

The White House said Zelenska is visiting Washington “to highlight the human cost of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine,” with the first ladies discussing “the United States’ continued support for the government of Ukraine and its people as they defend their democracy and cope with the significant human impacts of Russia’s war, which will be felt for years to come.”

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