Passing the Baton 2025 Keynote Address: Ensuring Strategic Stability

As America prepares to inaugurate Donald J. Trump as the 47th president, the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) was proud to host Passing the Baton 2025: Securing America’s Future in an Era of Strategic Competition on January 14. This flagship, bipartisan event brought together national security leaders from across the political spectrum to mark the peaceful transfer of power and the bipartisan character of American foreign policy.

Welcome and Introduction

• Ambassador George Moose
  Acting President, U.S. Institute of Peace

Keynote Address: Ensuring Strategic Stability

• Admiral Gary Roughead (Ret.)
  Former Chief of Naval Operations; Robert and Marion Oster Distinguished Military Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University 
• The Honorable Kathryn Wheelbarger 
  Member, Board of Directors, U.S. Institute of Peace