2008 National Security Seminars
December 16 (Tuesday) - 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. — Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, Admiral Thad W. Allen will speak on the topic of "Maritime Security Challenges."
December 4 (Thursday) - 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m — Dr. John Duke Anthony, President of the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations, will discuss challenges the Obama administration will face in dealing with the Arab world.
November 25 (Tuesday) - 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. — Ambassador Victoria Nuland will discuss some of the challenges the new administration may face in dealing with Russia and in managing the US/NATO relationship. From July 2005 until she stepped down earlier this year, Ambassador Nuland was the United States Permanent Representative to NATO. She is currently teaching at the National War College. A career foreign service officer, Victoria Nuland was Principal Deputy National Security Advisor to Vice President Cheney from July 2003-May 2005. She has held a number of significant positions at the U.S. State Department primarily relating to Russia and the states of the former Soviet Union. During the Clinton Administration, she served as Chief of Staff to Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott.
September 30 (Tuesday) - 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. — Vice Admiral Kevin J. Cosgriff, USN (Ret.), who recently stepped down as Commander U.S. Fifth Fleet, will provide insights from his tenure during 2007-2008, a particularly eventful period in the Gulf. Admiral Cosgriff is presently at CNA as he transitions to the private sector. Immediately prior to his assignment in Bahrain, he was the Deputy Commander, Fleet Forces Command. A graduate of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Kevin Cosgriff was among the first to receive a Master of Science in Strategic Intelligence form the Defense Intelligence College. He served as Director of the White House Situation Room and on the National Security Council.
September 24 (Wednesday) - 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. — Vice Admiral Doug Crowder, USN, recently assigned as Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Operations Plans and Strategy (N3/N5), will address his nearly two years in command of the US Seventh Fleet in the Western Pacific. He is well-known to the policy community having previously served as Director of N31/N52, as Director of Deep Blue, the Navy Operations Group and as Assistant Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Plans, Policy and Operations.
July 31 (Thursday) - 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m — Admiral William J. Fallon, recently retired from the US Navy after 41 years of distinguished service. Admiral Fallon has accepted an appointment at the MIT Center for International Studies as a Robert E. Wilhem Fellow. Before he begins his academic collaboration at MIT, we are pleased that he has agreed to reflect on US strategic challenges as viewed from his vantage point as Commander of the U.S. Pacific Command from February 2005 to March 2007 and Commander of the U.S. Central Command from March 2007 to March 2008. He previously served as Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command from September 2003 to February 2005. He was the 31st Vice Chief of Naval Operations from October 2000 to August 2003.
July 10 (Thursday) - 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. — Congressman Jim Cooper (D-Tennessee), Chairman, Panel on Roles and Missions, House Armed Services Committee. Topic: The roles and missions review and its implications for reform within the U.S. military.
Access the panel's report: http://armedservices.house.gov/pdfs/Reports/HASCRolesandMissionsPanelReport.pdf
June 6 (Friday) - 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. (note different time) — Ahmed Rashid, world-renowned Pakistani journalist and author of several best-selling books on the Taliban, militant Islam, and Central Asia. Mr. Rashid will discuss his newest, just-released book, Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. Mr. Rashid writes regularly for the BBC, the Washington Post, the New York Review of Books, and the Daily Telegraph (London), among other publications. He also appears regularly on NPR, CNN, and the BBC World Service.
June 5 (Thursday) - 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. — ADM Gary Roughead, Chief of Naval Operations. Topic TBD
April 24 (Thursday) - 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. — Kurt Campbell – "Difficult Transitions: Why Presidents Fail in Foreign Policy at the Outset."
April 3 (Thursday) - 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. — Ambassador Mary Carlin Yates, Deputy to the Commander for Civil-Military Activities, United States Africa Command will be our distinguished speaker. AFRICOM is unique in having two co-equal deputies--a civilian deputy and a military deputy. Ambassador Yates directs the command's plans and programs associated with health, humanitarian assistance, humanitarian mine action, disaster response, and security sector reform. From 2005 to 2007, she served as Foreign Policy Advisor to the United States European Command. A career member of the United States Senior Foreign Service, Mary Carlin Yates was U.S. Ambassador to Ghana from 2002 to 2005 and U.S. Ambassador to Burundi from 1999 to 2002. She has also served in Zaire (Congo), France, Philippines and Korea.
March 25 (Tuesday) - 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. — Major General Charles J. Dunlap Jr., Deputy Judge Advocate General of the United States Air Force. He speaks and writes widely on legal and national security issues. An early indication of his ability to provoke was his 1992 National War College paper, later published in Parameters: "The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012." More recently General Dunlap has written a monograph "Shortchanging the Joint Fight" which critiques the U.S. Army and Marine Corp's counterinsurgency manual for failing to sufficiently take account of the role of air power. In his January 9 New York Times op-ed, "We Still Need the Big Guns," General Dunlap points out that the lesson of Iraq is that "old fashioned force works." For this seminar, he will be expanding on the points made in his op-ed and monograph.
March 6 (Thursday) - 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. — General Joseph Ralston, former Commander, U.S. European Command and Supreme Allied Commander Europe NATO, will be our distinguished speaker on 6 March, from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Joe is now a Vice Chairman with the Cohen Group.
February 28 (Thursday) - 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. — Dr. Thomas J. Christensen, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. The rise of China is going to be an issue for the next administration, as it will for many succeeding administrations. There is no one in the United States Government better positioned to discuss US-China relations and speculate about future issues than Tom. He is on public service leave from Princeton University where he is Professor of Politics and International Affairs and Director of the Princeton-Harvard "China and the World" Program.
February 5 (Tuesday) - 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. — our distinguished speaker will be Admiral Henry G. "Harry" Ulrich, III, USN (Ret.) who relinquished command of Naval Forces Europe and as NATO's Allied Joint Force Commander Naples in November. Admiral Ulrich will discuss his experiences in conducting maritime security operations along the Mediterranean littoral, the Gulf of Guinea, and the Black Sea. He will reflect on lessons learned and will discuss why maritime security operations in these areas will be important to the nation in the future.
January 29 (Tuesday) - 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. — the Honorable Dr. Patrick M. Cronin, newly appointed Director of the Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS) of the National Defense University, will discuss the challenges posed by Iran and North Korea. Dr. Cronin is the editor and co-author of Double Trouble: International Security and the Challenge of Iran and North Korea. His presentation is in keeping with our early 2008 theme of near-term issues facing the country and the next administration.
January 7 (Monday) - 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. — Dr. David Gordon, the State Department"s Director of Policy Planning, kicks off the year by previewing the policy challenges facing us in the months to come. The Director and Policy Planning Staff serve as a source of independent policy analysis and advice for the Secretary of State. Their mission is to take a longer term, strategic view of global trends and frame recommendations for the Secretary.
December 4 (Thursday) - 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m — Dr. John Duke Anthony, President of the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations, will discuss challenges the Obama administration will face in dealing with the Arab world.
November 25 (Tuesday) - 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. — Ambassador Victoria Nuland will discuss some of the challenges the new administration may face in dealing with Russia and in managing the US/NATO relationship. From July 2005 until she stepped down earlier this year, Ambassador Nuland was the United States Permanent Representative to NATO. She is currently teaching at the National War College. A career foreign service officer, Victoria Nuland was Principal Deputy National Security Advisor to Vice President Cheney from July 2003-May 2005. She has held a number of significant positions at the U.S. State Department primarily relating to Russia and the states of the former Soviet Union. During the Clinton Administration, she served as Chief of Staff to Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott.
September 30 (Tuesday) - 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. — Vice Admiral Kevin J. Cosgriff, USN (Ret.), who recently stepped down as Commander U.S. Fifth Fleet, will provide insights from his tenure during 2007-2008, a particularly eventful period in the Gulf. Admiral Cosgriff is presently at CNA as he transitions to the private sector. Immediately prior to his assignment in Bahrain, he was the Deputy Commander, Fleet Forces Command. A graduate of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Kevin Cosgriff was among the first to receive a Master of Science in Strategic Intelligence form the Defense Intelligence College. He served as Director of the White House Situation Room and on the National Security Council.
September 24 (Wednesday) - 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. — Vice Admiral Doug Crowder, USN, recently assigned as Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Operations Plans and Strategy (N3/N5), will address his nearly two years in command of the US Seventh Fleet in the Western Pacific. He is well-known to the policy community having previously served as Director of N31/N52, as Director of Deep Blue, the Navy Operations Group and as Assistant Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Plans, Policy and Operations.
July 31 (Thursday) - 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m — Admiral William J. Fallon, recently retired from the US Navy after 41 years of distinguished service. Admiral Fallon has accepted an appointment at the MIT Center for International Studies as a Robert E. Wilhem Fellow. Before he begins his academic collaboration at MIT, we are pleased that he has agreed to reflect on US strategic challenges as viewed from his vantage point as Commander of the U.S. Pacific Command from February 2005 to March 2007 and Commander of the U.S. Central Command from March 2007 to March 2008. He previously served as Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command from September 2003 to February 2005. He was the 31st Vice Chief of Naval Operations from October 2000 to August 2003.
July 10 (Thursday) - 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. — Congressman Jim Cooper (D-Tennessee), Chairman, Panel on Roles and Missions, House Armed Services Committee. Topic: The roles and missions review and its implications for reform within the U.S. military.
Access the panel's report: http://armedservices.house.gov/pdfs/Reports/HASCRolesandMissionsPanelReport.pdf
June 6 (Friday) - 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. (note different time) — Ahmed Rashid, world-renowned Pakistani journalist and author of several best-selling books on the Taliban, militant Islam, and Central Asia. Mr. Rashid will discuss his newest, just-released book, Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. Mr. Rashid writes regularly for the BBC, the Washington Post, the New York Review of Books, and the Daily Telegraph (London), among other publications. He also appears regularly on NPR, CNN, and the BBC World Service.
June 5 (Thursday) - 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. — ADM Gary Roughead, Chief of Naval Operations. Topic TBD
April 24 (Thursday) - 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. — Kurt Campbell – "Difficult Transitions: Why Presidents Fail in Foreign Policy at the Outset."
April 3 (Thursday) - 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. — Ambassador Mary Carlin Yates, Deputy to the Commander for Civil-Military Activities, United States Africa Command will be our distinguished speaker. AFRICOM is unique in having two co-equal deputies--a civilian deputy and a military deputy. Ambassador Yates directs the command's plans and programs associated with health, humanitarian assistance, humanitarian mine action, disaster response, and security sector reform. From 2005 to 2007, she served as Foreign Policy Advisor to the United States European Command. A career member of the United States Senior Foreign Service, Mary Carlin Yates was U.S. Ambassador to Ghana from 2002 to 2005 and U.S. Ambassador to Burundi from 1999 to 2002. She has also served in Zaire (Congo), France, Philippines and Korea.
March 25 (Tuesday) - 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. — Major General Charles J. Dunlap Jr., Deputy Judge Advocate General of the United States Air Force. He speaks and writes widely on legal and national security issues. An early indication of his ability to provoke was his 1992 National War College paper, later published in Parameters: "The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012." More recently General Dunlap has written a monograph "Shortchanging the Joint Fight" which critiques the U.S. Army and Marine Corp's counterinsurgency manual for failing to sufficiently take account of the role of air power. In his January 9 New York Times op-ed, "We Still Need the Big Guns," General Dunlap points out that the lesson of Iraq is that "old fashioned force works." For this seminar, he will be expanding on the points made in his op-ed and monograph.
March 6 (Thursday) - 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. — General Joseph Ralston, former Commander, U.S. European Command and Supreme Allied Commander Europe NATO, will be our distinguished speaker on 6 March, from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Joe is now a Vice Chairman with the Cohen Group.
February 28 (Thursday) - 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. — Dr. Thomas J. Christensen, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. The rise of China is going to be an issue for the next administration, as it will for many succeeding administrations. There is no one in the United States Government better positioned to discuss US-China relations and speculate about future issues than Tom. He is on public service leave from Princeton University where he is Professor of Politics and International Affairs and Director of the Princeton-Harvard "China and the World" Program.
February 5 (Tuesday) - 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. — our distinguished speaker will be Admiral Henry G. "Harry" Ulrich, III, USN (Ret.) who relinquished command of Naval Forces Europe and as NATO's Allied Joint Force Commander Naples in November. Admiral Ulrich will discuss his experiences in conducting maritime security operations along the Mediterranean littoral, the Gulf of Guinea, and the Black Sea. He will reflect on lessons learned and will discuss why maritime security operations in these areas will be important to the nation in the future.
January 29 (Tuesday) - 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. — the Honorable Dr. Patrick M. Cronin, newly appointed Director of the Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS) of the National Defense University, will discuss the challenges posed by Iran and North Korea. Dr. Cronin is the editor and co-author of Double Trouble: International Security and the Challenge of Iran and North Korea. His presentation is in keeping with our early 2008 theme of near-term issues facing the country and the next administration.
January 7 (Monday) - 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. — Dr. David Gordon, the State Department"s Director of Policy Planning, kicks off the year by previewing the policy challenges facing us in the months to come. The Director and Policy Planning Staff serve as a source of independent policy analysis and advice for the Secretary of State. Their mission is to take a longer term, strategic view of global trends and frame recommendations for the Secretary.
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