2007 National Security Seminars
December 13 (Thursday) - 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. — Vice Admiral John Stufflebeem, Director, Navy Staff, will give "A View from Lisbon: NATO Transformation, Pakistan Relief, and Lebanon Crisis Response." His previous assignment was Commander 6th Fleet, Deputy Commander Naval Forces Europe, Joint Force Maritime Component Commander Europe, Commander Strike and Support Forces NATO and Allied Commander Joint Command Lisbon. A naval aviator who has flown more than 4,000 hours, Admiral Stufflebeem has served in a variety of assignments including as Military Aide to President George H.W. Bush.
December 6 (Thursday) - 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m — Mr. Ahmed Rashid, one of Pakistan's top journalists, will speak about the current situation in Pakistan and the policy choices confronting that nation's leaders. His 2000 book, Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, was a New York Times bestseller.
November 26 (Monday) - 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. — Gen. Joseph Ralston has been the Vice Chairman of The Cohen Group since his retirement from the United States Air Force in 2003. He was Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1996-2000) and the Commander of the U.S. European Command and Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, NATO (2000-2003). He was appointed by President Bush to serve a one-year term (Aug 2006-Aug 2007) as a Special Envoy for countering the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK). He will discuss the urgent need to resolve the PKK, Turkey, Iraq crisis.
November 7 (Wednesday) - 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. — Mr. Stephen Fidler, Defense and Security Editor of the Financial Times, based in London and in the U.S. on a reporting trip, will offer insights from his editor's notebook on France and NATO, the UK defense budget, and other European security issues (very topical subjects in a week in which President Bush will meet with Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan, French President Nicholas Sarkozy, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel).
December 6 (Thursday) - 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m — Mr. Ahmed Rashid, one of Pakistan's top journalists, will speak about the current situation in Pakistan and the policy choices confronting that nation's leaders. His 2000 book, Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, was a New York Times bestseller.
November 26 (Monday) - 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. — Gen. Joseph Ralston has been the Vice Chairman of The Cohen Group since his retirement from the United States Air Force in 2003. He was Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1996-2000) and the Commander of the U.S. European Command and Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, NATO (2000-2003). He was appointed by President Bush to serve a one-year term (Aug 2006-Aug 2007) as a Special Envoy for countering the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK). He will discuss the urgent need to resolve the PKK, Turkey, Iraq crisis.
November 7 (Wednesday) - 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. — Mr. Stephen Fidler, Defense and Security Editor of the Financial Times, based in London and in the U.S. on a reporting trip, will offer insights from his editor's notebook on France and NATO, the UK defense budget, and other European security issues (very topical subjects in a week in which President Bush will meet with Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan, French President Nicholas Sarkozy, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel).
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