NATSEC Roundtable No. 4: Weaponized Supply Chains

For older generations, Beirut had a particular relevance. October 23, 2023 was the 40th anniversary of a bombing of U.S. Servicemen that killed 241 people in 1983. My first experience with Beirut was far less dramatic but jarring nonetheless. On August 4, 2020, while sitting in an online classroom at Harvard Business School at the height of COVID-19, I watched a classmate fly out of the frame of his web camera as his wall crumbled behind him. That explosion claimed 218 deaths and over 7,000 injuries. Unaware of the carnage of the moment, our professor continued the class. A screenshot of the moment captured my classmates in confusion, unaware of what happened until the news caught up with the chaos.