T. William & Patricia Ayers:
Global Tipping Points -
The Changing Battlescape:
The Cyber Challenge
As conflicts increasingly move beyond land, sea, and air, a new battlefield has emerged — one made of code, networks, and invisible lines of attack. From power grids and hospitals to elections and military command systems, cyber operations now play a central role in how nations compete, coerce, and fight without ever firing a shot.
Join the World Affairs Council of New Hampshire, in partnership with the NH Chapter of the Fulbright Association, for a timely conversation with Eric Talbot Jensen of Brigham Young University, one of the world’s leading experts on cyber conflict and the law of armed conflict, as we explore how cyberwarfare is reshaping modern statecraft. In this moderated community discussion, Jensen will examine how governments and non-state actors use cyber tools to spy, disrupt, and influence adversaries, where the legal and ethical boundaries lie, and what happens when digital attacks begin to look more like acts of war.
Attend in person or online to gain a clearer understanding of how today’s most consequential battles may be happening quietly, behind screens — and what that means for global stability, security, and the future of conflict.
Doors open at 5:30 pm for a light reception and opportunity to connect with the local community.
WACNH will livestream this event to its global audience through YouTube on its website homepage.
About the Speaker
Eric Talbot Jensen is a professor of law at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, and recently returned to BYU after serving for a year as the special counsel to the Department of Defense General Counsel. Prior to joining the BYU law faculty in 2011, Professor Jensen spent two years teaching at Fordham Law School in New York City and twenty years in the United States Army as both a cavalry officer and as a judge advocate.
During his time as a judge advocate, Professor Jensen served in various positions including as the chief of the Army’s International Law Branch; deputy legal advisor for Task Force Baghdad; professor of International and Operational Law at The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School; legal advisor to the US contingent of UN Forces deployed to Skopje, Macedonia as part of UNPREDEP; and legal advisor in Bosnia in support of Operation Joint Endeavor/Guard. Professor Jensen is a graduate of Brigham Young University (BA, International Relations), University of Notre Dame Law School (JD), The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School (LLM) and Yale Law School (LLM).
Professor Jensen is an expert in the law of armed conflict, public international law, national security law, and cyber warfare. He was one of the group of experts who prepared the Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare and is currently working on the Tallinn Manual dealing with cyber operations more generally. He is co-author on The Law of Armed Conflict: An Operational Perspective, The Laws of War and the War on Terror, and National Security Law and Policy: a Student Treatise. He is the author of more than thirty law journal publications focusing on international law, national security law, cyber law and international criminal law.
