U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Richard Correll, U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) director of plans and policy, has lunch with Iowa State University (ISU) cadets during the 2020 Deterrence and Assurance Academic Alliance Conference at ISU in Ames, Iowa, March 12, 2020. Over 100 participants engaged in a four-hour USSTRATCOM-led wargame designed to apply students’ knowledge of U.S. instruments of national power, as they developed solutions to a simulated crisis strategic decision-making scenario.

U.S. Navy Adm. Charles Richard, commander of U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), participates in a tabletop exercise during the 2020 Deterrence and Assurance Academic Alliance Conference at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, March 12, 2020. Over 100 participants engaged in a four-hour USSTRATCOM-led wargame designed to apply students’ knowledge of U.S. instruments of national power, as they developed solutions to a simulated crisis strategic decision-making scenario.

From left, U.S. Navy Adm. Charles Richard, commander of U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Clinton Crosier, director of space force planning at the office of the Chief of Space Operations, and U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Richard Correll, USSTRATCOM director of plans and policy, participate in a tabletop exercise during the 2020 Deterrence and Assurance Academic Alliance Conference at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, March 12, 2020. Over 100 participants engaged in a four-hour USSTRATCOM-led wargame designed to apply students’ knowledge of U.S. instruments of national power, as they developed solutions to a simulated crisis strategic decision-making scenario.

Faculty members and students participate in a tabletop exercise during the 2020 Deterrence and Assurance Academic Alliance Conference at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, March 12, 2020. Over 100 participants engaged in a four-hour U.S. Strategic Command-led wargame designed to apply students’ knowledge of U.S. instruments of national power, as they developed solutions to a simulated crisis strategic decision-making scenario.

An Iowa State University ROTC cadet receives a command coin from U.S. Navy Adm. Charles Richard, commander of U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), during the 2020 Deterrence and Assurance Academic Alliance Conference in Ames, Iowa, March 12, 2020. Over 100 participants attended the two-day event, themed Deterrence: Theory to Application, A Cyclone of Challenges. The event featured student panel presentations, tours and demonstrations, a national security job fair, and a four-hour USSTRATCOM-led tabletop exercise, which simulated a strategic level national security crisis to test their analytic expertise.

An Iowa State University Army ROTC cadet asks U.S. Navy Adm. Charles Richard, commander of U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), a question during the 2020 Deterrence and Assurance Academic Alliance Conference in Ames, Iowa, March 12, 2020. Over 100 participants attended the two-day event, themed Deterrence: Theory to Application, A Cyclone of Challenges. The event featured student panel presentations, tours and demonstrations, a national security job fair, and a four-hour USSTRATCOM-led tabletop exercise, which simulated a strategic level national security crisis to test their analytic expertise.

U.S. Navy Adm. Charles Richard, commander of U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), speaks to Iowa State University ROTC cadets during the 2020 Deterrence and Assurance Academic Alliance Conference in Ames, Iowa, March 12, 2020. Over 100 participants attended the two-day event, themed Deterrence: Theory to Application, A Cyclone of Challenges. The event featured student panel presentations, tours and demonstrations, a national security job fair, and a four-hour USSTRATCOM-led tabletop exercise, which simulated a strategic level national security crisis to test their analytic expertise.

Eliot Winer, director of Iowa State University (ISU) Virtual Reality Applications Center (VRAC), gives U.S. Navy Adm. Charles Richard, commander of U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), at tour of the VRAC’s Design and Build Lab in Ames, Iowa, March 12, 2020. Richard attended the 2020 Deterrence and Assurance Academic Alliance Conference, a two-day conference featuring a USSTRATCOM-led tabletop exercise focused on deterrence issues, along with student panel presentations, tours and demonstrations, a national security job fair.

U.S. Navy Adm. Charles Richard, commander of U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), speaks to faculty members and students participating in a table top exercise during the 2020 Deterrence and Assurance Academic Alliance Conference at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, March 11, 2020. Over 100 participants engaged in a 4-hour wargame designed to apply students’ knowledge of U.S. instruments of national power, as they developed solutions to a simulated crisis strategic decision-making scenario.

Lyle Martin, senior policy advisor at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, provides an overview of nuclear weapons fundamentals and effects during the 2020 Deterrence and Assurance Academic Alliance Conference at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, March 11, 2020. Over 100 participants attended the two-day event, themed Deterrence: Theory to Application, A Cyclone of Challenges. The event featured student panel presentations, tours and demonstrations, a national security job fair, and a four-hour U.S. Strategic Command-led tabletop exercise, which simulated a strategic level national security crisis to test their analytic expertise.

An Iowa State University (ISU) student demonstrates an icing wind tunnel to participants of the Deterrence and Assurance Academic Alliance Conference during a tour of the Aerospace Engineering Department at ISU in Ames, Iowa, March 11, 2020. Over 100 participants attended the two-day event, themed Deterrence: Theory to Application, A Cyclone of Challenges. The event featured student panel presentations, tours and demonstrations, a national security job fair, and a four-hour U.S. Strategic Command-led tabletop exercise, which simulated a strategic level national security crisis to test their analytic expertise.

Iowa State University (ISU) students demonstrate their Mars rover project to participants of the Deterrence and Assurance Academic Alliance Conference during a tour of the Aerospace Engineering Department at ISU in Ames, Iowa, March 11, 2020. Over 100 participants attended the two-day event, themed Deterrence: Theory to Application, A Cyclone of Challenges. The event featured student panel presentations, tours and demonstrations, a national security job fair, and a four-hour USSTRATCOM-led tabletop exercise, which simulated a strategic level national security crisis to test their analytic expertise.