Steve Cambone

“Anticipating History: How Well Can China Control Its Destiny“

Dr. Cambone is the founder of Adirondack Advisors, LLC, which provides strategic advice to both small and large companies. He serves on the board of the Rumsfeld Foundation, on the board of MDA IS LLC, an American subsidiary of MDA LTD, Canada, and on the boards of several early stage and start-up companies. From 2007-2012 he held senior corporate positions at QinetiQ North America. Prior to that he served in the Bush Administration as the second ranking DOD policy official, the Director of then-PA&E and as the first Undersecretary of Defense for Policy. He earned his BA at Catholic University and his MA and Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate School.

Brief Summary: “Anticipating History: How Well Can China Control Its Destiny” is an effort, offered in the style of the late Dr. Rood, to examine China’s ambitions in the world as stated by its leaders, the domestic and foreign circumstances that may affect the realization of those ambitions and anticipates a range of possible outcomes that might be anticipated by US policymakers a decade or so in the future.