NIDS Webinar
Future of Multi-domain Operations and Campaigning:
Lessons for the Indo-Pacific
The importance of new warfighting domains, such as outer-space and cyberspace, and Multi-Domain Operations (MDOs) has been widely recognized and discussed among defense and strategic community since 2010. Following this international trend, Japan’s national strategic documents have also emphasized MDOs and military capabilities in and through new warfighting domains, including outer-space, cyberspace, and the electromagnetic spectrum. While academia and policymakers have paid attention to the roles of new warfighting domains and multi-domain capabilities integration for both high-intensity warfighting and campaigning below the threshold of armed conflicts, theoretical and empirical understanding of this issue still remain difficult due to the complexity and dynamically evolving nature of this debate.
Against this backdrop, National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS) has invited three distinguished researchers about MDOs and new warfighting domains in order to share the latest academic insights and policy and strategic developments all over the world. This webinar will explore lessons learned from Russo-Ukraine War to future strategic environments in the Indo-Pacific theater, reflecting nature of the protracted war, emerging domains capabilities, and capabilities integration into both high-intensity warfighting and campaigning below the threshold of armed conflicts. NIDS researchers will discuss with the distinguished panelists to deepen both theoretical and empirical findings for the future debate.
We look forward to your online participation. Please register below.
| Date and Time: | Thursday, February 20, 2025, 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM Online webinar format (with simultaneous interpretation in Japanese and English) |
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| Fee: | Free of charge |
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This event has ended. The following report “Future of Multi-domain Operations and Campaigning: Lessons for the Indo-Pacific” summarize the outcomes of the webinar hosted by NIDS on February 20, 2025. Please click the link below to download the report in PDF format. [“Future of Multi-domain Operations and Campaigning: Lessons for the Indo-Pacific” (Download PDF)] |
| Contact: | Secretariat(webinar2025@ext.nids.mod.go.jp) |
Co-Organizer: Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc.
Program (Tentative)
1. Opening Remarks (9:30-9:35)
By KIKUCHI Shigeo, Director of Policy Studies Department, NIDS
2. Presentations and Discussions (9:40-11:00)
Presentation 1 (9:40-10:00)
Assessing Russian Cyber and Information Warfare in Ukraine: Expectations, Realities, and Lessons (TBC)
By Jaclyn A. KERR
Presentation 2 (10:00-10:20)
“The Ukrainian Way of Digital Warfighting - Applications, Volunteers, and Cyber Operations on the Modern Battlefield”
By Stefan SOESANTO
Presentation 3 (10:20-10:40)
Multi-Domain Operations and Vertical Escalatory Risks
By Franz-Stefan GADY
Presentation 4 (10:40-11:00)
“Lessons from the Russia-Ukrain War: Findings of Expert Interviews on MDOs and its Implications for the Indo-Pacific”
By OSHITE Junichi
Discussion (11:10-12:00)
Moderated by SETO Takashi
3. Closing Remarks (12:25-12:30)
By ICHIMASA Sukeyuki, Head of Cyber Security Division, Policy Studies Department, NIDS
Speakers
Panelists
Dr. Jaclyn A. Kerr
Jaclyn A. Kerr is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Disruptive Technology and Future Warfare at National Defense University’s Institute for National Strategic Studies. She also holds positions as a Non-Resident Fellow at the Brookings Institution, an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, and an Affiliate with the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University. She received a PhD and MA in Government from Georgetown University, and an MA in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies and Bachelors in Mathematics and Slavic Languages and Literature from Stanford University. She has previously served as a AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the U.S. Department of State’s Office of the Science and Technology Advisor to the Secretary (STAS), a Senior Advisor to the US Cyber Solarium Commission, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Global Security Research (CGSR) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a predoctoral research fellow at Stanford University’s CISAC and Harvard University’s Belfer Center, and has held research fellowships in Russia, Kazakhstan, and Qatar. She also has prior professional experience as a software engineer with Comcast and Symantec.
Her recent and forthcoming publications include:
“Ukraine’s Support Coalition and the Long (Info) War: Mitigating the Disinformation Threat to Democratic Collaboration.” In volume, Defending Democracy in the Digital Age, edited by Scott Shackelford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
“Russia’s Asymmetric Enablers.” Chapter in report, Assessing Russian plans for military regeneration: Modernization and reconstitution challenges for Moscow’s war machine. Chatham House, July 2024.
“Assessing Russian Cyber and Information Warfare in Ukraine: Expectations, Realities, and Lessons,” Center for Naval Analyses (CNA), November 2023.
“Concept Misalignment and Cyberspace Instability: Lessons from Cyber-Enabled Disinformation.” In Cyberspace and (in)stability, edited by Robert Chesney, Max Smeets, & James Shires. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, January 2023.
“On Cyber-Enabled Information Warfare and Information Operations,” with Herbert Lin. In Oxford Handbook of Cyber Security, edited by Paul Cornish, 251-272. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Mr. Stefan Soesanto
Stefan Soesanto is a Senior Researcher and leads the Cyber Defense Team at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich (Switzerland). He holds an MA from Yonsei University (South Korea) with a focus on security policies, and international law. Prior to joining CSS, Stefan was the Cybersecurity & Defense Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) in London, a non-resident James A. Kelly Fellow at Pacific Forum CSIS, and served as a Research Assistant at RAND's Brussels office.
Notable publications include:
“The Ukrainian Way of Digital Warfighting: Volunteers, Applications, and Intelligence Sharing Platforms,” CSS Cyberdefense Report, July 2024.
“Ukraine's IT Army,” International Institute for Security Studies, Survival Vol. 65, Issue 3, June 2023.
“Cyber Deterrence Revisited,” CPP-8, Air University Press, 2022.
Mr. Franz-Stefan Gady
Franz-Stefan Gady is a Associate Fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in the UK. He has held positions at the National Defense University and as Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security in the US.
Notable publications include:
The Return of War, Quadriga, 2024.
How the United States Would Fight China, Hurst Publishers, 2025.
Mr. Oshite Junichi
Mr. OSHITE Junichi is a Research Fellow at Cyber Security Division, Policy Studies Department, NIDS, Japan. His research interests relate to electromagnetic warfare and the security policies of the US. Before joining NIDS, he served as Researcher at Mitsubishi Research Institute. He received Master of Law from Keio University.
Disscussant
Mr. Seto Takashi
Mr. SETO Takashi is a Research Fellow at Cyber Security Division, Policy Studies Department, NIDS, Japan. His research interests cover intelligence and national security, cyber and information warfare, and the defense and security in Euro-transatlantic regions. Before joining NIDS, he served as Research Associate at the Asia Pacific Initiative, and Researcher at Emerging Security Challenges Division / Economic Security Policy Division, MOFA. He received Master of Public Policy from the University of Tokyo.
Notable Publications（in English）include:
Weaponized Disclosure of Intelligence in the Russia-Ukraine War: Disclosure Dilemma and Hidden Inheritances from Post-2014 Transatlantic Security Cooperation (NIDS Commentary, No.224, October 2023)
