Rear Admiral Scott Moore (Ret.) is one of the nation’s most legendary heroes. As the commander of the Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU), he led the military’s most elite forces during one of the most dangerous times in our history. Throughout his 30 years in the military, Moore directed more than 2,000 missions and saw on the frontlines what most commanders only hear about in reports. He has been deployed across the globe, and his experience runs the gamut from leading small groups to large-scale tactical planning. Larger than life, Moore has commanded at every level, and from the mountains of Afghanistan to briefings in the Oval Office, he is the man our nation’s leaders trusted when failure was not an option.

 An expert in national security affairs, he  will talk about the geopolitics behind the real-world, split decisions he made on the battlefield and how current events  will impact us all in the years ahead. Moore led SEAL teams during the marquee moments of our nation’s history – like Desert Storm, Just Cause (Panama), Bosnia, Mogadishu, 9/11, and Haiti. He was the commander of a Joint Special Operations Task Force conducting more than 2,000 high-risk raids against key enemy leaders. Additionally, he commanded several critical, no-fail hostage rescue operations, both in Afghanistan and off the coast of Somalia. The daredevil rescue became the basis for both Captain Richard Phillips’ book A Captain’s Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days at Sea and the 2013 movie Captain Phillips.

Since commanding DEVGRU, Moore has held increasingly complex leadership roles. He served as the director of counter-terrorism at the National Security Council and the deputy director for special operations at the Pentagon. There he reported to Admiral Mike Mullen, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and was his primary counter-terrorism advisor. Moore then spent a year as the deputy commander at the Office of Defense Representative Pakistan, where he was one of the senior officers interfacing with the Pakistani military. He put his invaluable strategic leadership experience to work in dealing with constantly shifting allegiances and allies who do not necessarily share the same priorities as the U.S. Most recently, Moore served as the deputy commander of Naval Special Warfare, where he recruited, trained, equipped, and deployed our nation’s most elite.