STRATEGIC THREAT ORAL PRESENTATION WITH VISUAL AID

For this assignment, you will either select a topic from the provided list below or use your own topic with the approval of your instructor to develop a presentation on a current threat to U.S. national security. The presentation must cover the following:

1. Topic Summary: Provide a summary of your selected topic.

2. The Strategic Threat: Explain how your selected topic is a threat to U.S. National Security. 

3. Impact on Mission: Explain how your selected topic could impact, currently impacts, or has already impacted (as applicable) your unit’s mission.

4. Instruments of National Power: Explain how the U.S. uses two or more of the instruments of national power to deter and/or mitigate your chosen strategic threat (minimum of two).

5. Delivery Mechanics: The presentation must meet the following requirements:

   1. The presentation must contain a purpose, outline of main points, and summary/conclusion.

   2. The presentation must flow logically through main points to the conclusion.

   3. During the presentation you must demonstrate professionalism and use appropriate language (i.e., limited use of acronyms and jargon).

   4. Your presentation must be 10 to 15 minutes in length.

6. Visual Aid & References: You must develop a visual aid to assist in conveying your message and enhances your presentation.

1. 1. Any sources/references used must be credible (Credible sources means from Air Force, DoD, or other credible publications/media; NOT Wikipedia, Reddit, or blogs).

   2. Sources/references must be provided in your visual aid and cited in the Chicago Manual of Style format.

Strategic Threat Topics

• Russian Involvement in the Baltics

• Belt & Road Initiative

• Russian Involvement in Syria

• South China Sea Military Expansion

• Russian Involvement in Venezuela

• China/Russia/Iran Joint Exercises

• Russian Involvement in Ukraine

• China-Africa Relations

• Russian Arctic Build Up

• China-Middle East Relations

• Hybrid Warfare or Color Revolution

• China-Japan Relations

• Russian/Turkey Joint Border Patrols

• NATO Oversight of Russian Exercises

• Russia Bombers near US Airspace

• NATO Fallout/Russian INF Treaty

• Orbital Security

• China Water Crisis

• The Weaponization of Space

• Combating Near Peer Adversaries in Space

• Xi Jinping’s “China Dream”

View Rubric here.