With the apparent withdrawal of the United States from the leadership position of the Western Alliance, a role it has held for eighty years, the question on many minds is whether Western Europe can survive in a new world order centered around three superpowers: The United States, Russia, and China. Specifically, is NATO capable, without US backing, of surviving a conventional war with Russia. We will look at the military, economic, and industrial balance between NATO (minus the USA) and Russia, and at least cast some light on the important issues involved in Western Europe's survival as a viable fourth force in an increasingly hostile world.

Speaker details: Frank Chadwick is a military historian and author of books, articles, and columns on contemporary military affairs. He is particularly interested in the ongoing Ukraine War, taught an OLLI course on the subject, and facilitates a continuing study group on the war.

With the apparent withdrawal of the United States from the leadership position of the Western Alliance, a role it has held for eighty years, the question on many minds is whether Western Europe can survive in a new world order centered around three superpowers: The United States, Russia, and China. Specifically, is NATO capable, without US backing, of surviving a conventional war with Russia. We will look at the military, economic, and industrial balance between NATO (minus the USA) and Russia, and at least cast some light on the important issues involved in Western Europe's survival as a viable fourth force in an increasingly hostile world.

Speaker details: Frank Chadwick is a military historian and author of books, articles, and columns on contemporary military affairs. He is particularly interested in the ongoing Ukraine War, taught an OLLI course on the subject, and facilitates a continuing study group on the war.

Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park nows plays an expansive central role in cutting-edge global science. The survival of Life on Earth through geological time has depended on organisms successfully responding to, and eventually controlling, mineral growth within the environment. These Life-Water-Mineral interactions have long been an essential, unavoidable, and ubiquitously distributed force of nature, providing fundamental benefits for health and survival (from bones to teeth) as well as profound practical problems and disease (from kidney to heart and breast calcification). Integration of concepts and techniques from Geology, Biology and Medicine (GeoBioMed), forged at Mammoth, has opened a whole new realm of unexplored approaches for testing novel drug therapies and clinical interventions for a wide variety of human diseases as a viable alternative to reliance on surgery.

Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park nows plays an expansive central role in cutting-edge global science. The survival of Life on Earth through geological time has depended on organisms successfully responding to, and eventually controlling, mineral growth within the environment. These Life-Water-Mineral interactions have long been an essential, unavoidable, and ubiquitously distributed force of nature, providing fundamental benefits for health and survival (from bones to teeth) as well as profound practical problems and disease (from kidney to heart and breast calcification). Integration of concepts and techniques from Geology, Biology and Medicine (GeoBioMed), forged at Mammoth, has opened a whole new realm of unexplored approaches for testing novel drug therapies and clinical interventions for a wide variety of human diseases as a viable alternative to reliance on surgery.