Date and Time:
Wednesday, Oct. 30 at 6:15 p.m.Location:
First Amendment Forum
It's just a simulation, but the stakes are real.
The documentary “War Game” follows a bipartisan group of American defense, intelligence and elected policymakers as they’re put to the test in an unscripted simulation exercise and challenged to save democracy. As the players confront a political coup on a fictional U.S. president backed by rogue military members, the simulation’s outcome hinges on several inflection points, from the government’s capacity to counter disinformation to the potential invocation of the Insurrection Act.
After the screening, Mesa, Ariz. mayor John Giles will moderate a panel discussion featuring “War Game” director Tony Gerber; Elizabeth Neumann, a national security expert who served in the Department of Homeland Security from 2017 to 2020; Lt. General (Ret.) Jeffrey S. Buchanan, who served tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and was asked by the U.S. House of Representatives in 2021 to analyze the security failures of the US Capitol Police; and Andy Gordon, a former Counselor at the Department of Homeland Security who now teaches national security law at ASU’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. A lively, civil conversation will cover the relative importance of law and norms, the uneasy relationship between information and truth, and even the potential uses of both persuasion and force.
Register to attend: “War Game” screening registration